Coinspinner's Story
core novel 1989 Empire of the East / Swords
Record
| First published | 1989 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (1,846 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312932213 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Coinspinner, the Sword of Chance, follows only its own unknown rules. Crown Prince Murat of Culm asks Princess Kristin of Tasavalta to lend him Woundhealer, the Sword of Healing, but she refuses. Soon afterward Woundhealer is stolen from the White Temple, and General Rostov sets out to recover it, only to find that the Sword is not with the prince and that Coinspinner has gone missing too. Elsewhere, the young Prince Adrian approaches a treacherous City of Wizards, and the Macrowizard Wood, who has escaped the bonds of time, plans to abduct him and wants Coinspinner for himself.
Where it sits
- Universe: Empire of the East / Swords
- Series: Lost Swords core; position 5 of 8 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Fred Saberhagen
Notes
- Published as The Fifth Book of Lost Swords.
- From the series record (Lost Swords): Eight novels that follow the Swords of Power after the first trilogy, centered on Prince Mark of Tasavalta and his family.
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 Lost Swords: position 5 of 8: previous Farslayer's Story (1989) · next Mindsword's Story (1990)
- Internal chronology, within Empire of the East / Swords: position 12 of 15: previous Farslayer's Story (1989) · next Mindsword's Story (1990)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Books of Swords
- Fred Saberhagen's official site
- AbeBooks listing (Tor hardcover, 1989)
- Fred Saberhagen's site: Coinspinner's Story
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