- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (Sep 15 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812553454
- ISBN-13: 978-0812553451
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.6 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 172 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,753,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Fred Saberhagen has always been on of the best writers in the business,"--Stephen R. Donaldson, author of White Gold Wielder
"Hoist with their own petard by setting humans up as pawns in their game of swords, the gods now face their own destruction in the violent thrilling conclusion to Sanberhagen's Swords trilogy."--Booklist
"Fred Saberhagen has proved he is one of the best."--Lester Del Rey
"Hoist with their own petard by setting humans up as pawns in their game of swords, the gods now face their own destruction in the violent thrilling conclusion to Sanberhagen's Swords trilogy."--Booklist
"Fred Saberhagen has proved he is one of the best."--Lester Del Rey
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Coinspinner, Farslayer, Mindsword, and nine more...The gods gave the Swords of Power to humankind for a game--but the swords can kill gods as well as mortals. And as the gods begin to die, the mortals find that life is not what it seemed...
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Up at the unpeopled borderland of cloudy heaven, where unending wind drove eternal snow between and over high gray rocks, the gods and goddesses were gathering. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Fred Saberhagen is simply one of the best fictional authors!,
By Jack Deth "JackDeth" (Neenah, Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Third Book of Swords (Mass Market Paperback)
Fred Saberhagen is simply one of the best fictional authors in the business. I got this book to complete a collection I started years ago. If you've never read the "Swords" books, you are really missing out. This series is one of the greatest works of fiction of all time and a great majority of the material in these books can be referenced to some work of fact or fictional literature from the past. His style of writing is simply amazing and will captivate you and entertain you for years to come as you read and re-read his books over and over again.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Strictly for the D&D crowd,
This review is from: The Third Book of Swords (Mass Market Paperback)
Saberhagen turns in a moderately entertaining and fast-paced effort. It's a strictly by-the-numbers little guys find magic dingus to fight overwhelmingly superior bad guys tale. Saberhagen just can't make me care about any of the characters. Major plot events come across as contrived. For example, old Draffut, our favorite God in the Machine, just happens to be waiting in a ravine to give Mark just the right sword for the needs of the moment. Nothing in the books prepare the reader to really believe that Vulcan can suddenly be trounced by a pack of unarmed mortals; the whole scene is ludicrous. Like too many fantasy efforts, what started out as a promising set of characters and situations is concluded by bombast. We even get the obligatory dark lord at the city gates scene. Yeah, there's a twist, but not a believable or even particurly well-described one. Typical of Saberhagen's inability (in this series, mind you; I'm not critiquing his body of work here) to follow through on promising beginnings is the character of the Emperor. Saberhagen teases us throughout the series with dark and not-so-dark hints and glimpses of the Emperor; but when he is finally trotted out into the light of day, he is a disappointment. One is left wondering what all the buildup was about. Which is exactly how one is left feeling about the book as a whole.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Book GREAT Series,
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This review is from: The Third Book of Swords (Mass Market Paperback)
This book is another in the complete set of stories, about 12 swords each with a different special ability, I loved all his books so far, and hope it will stay the same for the rest of the series. I loved these books soo much I created a D&D Game from it!!
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