The Privilege of the Sword
core novel 2006 Riverside
Record
| First published | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.93 (5,486 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 378 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780553382686 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Riverside
- Series: Riverside core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Ellen Kushner
Awards (verified)
- Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2007: won; 1st place per sfadb, this project's accepted primary source for Locus lineage; registered as won per the no-cutoff Locus-poll convention's own 1st-place exception.
- Nebula Award (Best Novel), 2006: nominated; Confirmed directly via nebulas.sfwa.org's own nominated-work page.
- World Fantasy Award (Best Novel), 2007: nominated; Confirmed directly via worldfantasy.org's own 2007 convention award page.
Notes
- Riverside #2 by internal chronology (set ~18 years after Swordspoint).
- From the series record (Riverside): Publication order (1987, 2002, 2006) differs from internal chronology (Swordspoint, then Privilege of the Sword ~18 years later, then Fall of the Kings ~40 years later); both orders are well documented and not in dispute, so no unresolved-chronology case applies here.
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 Riverside: position 3 of 3: previous The Fall of the Kings (2002)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Swordspoint
- The Nebula Awards: The Privilege of the Sword (nominated work page)
- World Fantasy Convention: 2007 World Fantasy Convention (award nominees/winners)
- sfadb: Ellen Kushner
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