Liavek: Festival Week
core collection 1990 Liavek
Record
| First published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | collection |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (111 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441481927 |
Synopsis
Festival Week, the fifth and final volume of the Liavek shared-world anthology edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, gathers five stories built around the city of Liavek's calendar of festivals and the specific magical and social traditions tied to them. Interspersed among the stories are numerous poems by John M. Ford, continuing the series' mixture of prose and verse within the shared setting of the trade city on the Sea of Luck. As in the earlier volumes, the stories draw on Liavek's established magic system of inherited birth luck that residents must invest into external objects each year to work spells, using the occasion of festival time to bring together characters and storylines developed across the series' run.
Where it sits
- Universe: Liavek
- Series: Liavek core; position 5 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Emma Bull
- Author: Will Shetterly
Notes
- From the series record (Liavek): A five-volume shared-world anthology series created and edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, with contributions from Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, Steven Brust, Megan Lindholm, Pamela Dean, Charles de Lint and others, several already credited elsewhere in this canon under their own separate universes.
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 Liavek: position 5 of 5: previous Liavek: Spells of Binding (1988)
Sources
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