The King's Peace

Sulien (Volume 1)

Jo Walton

Tor Fantasy

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Sulian ap Gwien was seventeen when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed when they found her, she could have taken them all. As it was, it took six of them to subdue her. She will never forgive them.

Thus begins her story-a story that will take her to Caer Tanaga, where King Urdo struggles to bind together the squabbling nobles and petty princes into a unified force that will drive out the barbarians and restore the King's Peace.

Ringing with the clash of arms, rich with high magic and everyday life, The King's Peace is an epic of great deeds and down-to-earth people, told in language with the strength and flexibility of sharpened steel.

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First came the Tanagans, hop along, hop along, then came the Vincans, dance along, dance along then came the Jarnsmen, run along, run along the gold-headed Jarnsmen to chase you all home!
—Children’s step game
 
 
If I had been armed on horseback, I could have taken them all out. Even afoot I could have made a good showing with a sword. Hand to hand I think I could have given one of them a fair match, for all they were full-grown men and I, at seventeen had not quiet all my woman’s growth.

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"Walton writes with an authenticity that never loses heart, a rare combination in a genre where we are so often offered one or the other. The King's Peace is a proof that no matter how mined-out a subject may seen, a dedicated writer can dig down to a true vein of legend and hammer out gold." -Robin Hobb

"Beautifully and thought-provokingly tells a story set in a world and a history almost like ours, but different enough to be in itself a kind of elvenland. It's good to know that there will be more." -Poul Anderson

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Jo Walton

Jo Walton won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer on publication of her debut novel The King's Peace. Her novel Tooth and Claw won the World Fantasy Award. A native of Wales, she lives in Montreal.

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The King's Peace
Jo Walton

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Fantasy
August 2002
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780765343277
ISBN10: 0765343274
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 544 pages
$7.99

Hardcover

Hardcover
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
October 2000
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312872298
ISBN10: 0312872291
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 416 pages
$26.95

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
October 2000
e-Book Agency
ISBN: 9781429970655
ISBN10: 1429970650
416 pages
$6.99
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