Liavek: The Players of Luck
core collection 1986 Liavek
Record
| First published | 1986 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | collection |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.94 (201 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441481842 |
Synopsis
The Players of Luck, the second volume of the Liavek shared-world anthology edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, continues the series with thirteen further pieces of fiction, song, and prose by contributors including Charles de Lint and Gregory Frost, all set within the established world of the trade city of Liavek on the Sea of Luck. As in the first volume, the stories draw on Liavek's shared magic system, in which every resident's inborn birth luck must be invested annually into an external object before it can be used to cast spells, and explore the city's merchants, canals, and neighborhoods through the eyes of different authors' characters. The anthology format allows multiple, loosely connected storylines to unfold side by side within the same city and its ongoing continuity established by the earlier volume.
Where it sits
- Universe: Liavek
- Series: Liavek core; position 2 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 2 of 5: previous Liavek (1985) · next Liavek: Wizard's Row (1987)
Sources
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