Age of Swords
core novel 2017 Legends of the First Empire
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.28 (27,238 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| Page count | 496 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781101965382 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Legends of the First Empire
- Series: Legends of the First Empire core; position 2 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Michael J. Sullivan
Awards (verified)
- Readers' Choice Awards (Fantasy), 2017: nominated; Reader-nomination round; did not win. Winner: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Notes
- From the series record (Legends of the First Empire): 6-novel series (2016-2020) set ~3,000 years before the Riyria universe; per the author's own framing, requires no prior Riyria knowledge. Publication switched mid-series from traditional publishing (Del Rey/Penguin Random House, books 1-3) to self-publishing (Sullivan's own Riyria Enterprises LLC + Grim Oak Press, books 4-6, all Kickstarter-funded); the author has stated this let him release the final three books within a 10-month span rather than Del Rey's annual cadence.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Legends of the First Empire: position 2 of 6: previous Age of Myth (2016) · next Age of War (2018)
- Internal chronology, within Legends of the First Empire: position 2 of 9: previous Age of Myth (2016) · next Age of War (2018)
Sources
← Legends of the First Empire dossier · All universes
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