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The Summer Palace
Volume Three of the Annals of the Chosen
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS
The last installment of an epic fantasy trilogy of duty,
honor, and abuse of power by the award-winning
author of the Obsidian Chronicles and Ethshar series
All of the world is kept in a delicate balance under the
supervision of the Wizard Lord. It is his duty to govern lightly
and protect his domain…but if he should stray from the way of
the just then it is up to the Chosen to intercede. The Chosen are
the Leader, the Seer, the Swordsman, the Beauty, the Thief, the
Scholar, the Archer, and the Speaker, magically infused mortal
individuals who for the term of their service have only one function
—to remove an errant Wizard Lord.
But the new Wizard Lord has changed the playing field by
neutralizing all magic in his domain (both his own and that of the
Chosen) and has successfully killed and/or blocked his adversaries
and their challenges to his omnipotence. Sword (now on the run)
must work alone to restore order to the land and unravel the
mystery of the Ninth Talisman—which might be the salvation or
downfall of all that is good.
Praise for The Ninth Talisman:
“If you like swords, sorcery, and interplay between characters, this is
the book for you.The rush towards confrontation was exhilarating.
I look forward to the third installment.” —SFREVU.COM
“Fans of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance saga will
find this series much to their taste.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“The deliberately archetypal Chosen are not without individual
character, thanks to Watt-Evans’ dry wit, and the Wizard Lord isn’t a
standard magical potentate. But he is treading a classic path for his
ilk by introducing technology that may conflict with magic—how
deeply is the Chosen’s current and probably future concern in the
gifted, prolific Watt-Evans’s promising new series.” —BOOKLIST
“Veteran SF and fantasy author Watt-Evans (The Obsidian Chronicles)
displays his command of the fantasy genre in this fast-paced, fluidly
told sequel to The Wizard Lord.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS has written more than a dozen fantasy novels.
He lives in Maryland.
JUNE 2008
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