The Quest for Cush
core novel 1984 Imaro
Record
| First published | 1984 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.27 (223 ratings, collected 2026-08-28) |
| Page count | 224 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780879979096 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Imaro
- Series: Imaro core; position 2 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles R. Saunders
Notes
- From the series record (Imaro): Founding work of the 'Sword and Soul' subgenre: African-inspired heroic fantasy created explicitly as an alternative to the genre's default pseudo-medieval-European settings. No award wins or nominations could be independently corroborated for this series; it is admitted on documented genre-historical significance (the first African-diaspora sword-and-sorcery hero in the genre, widely cited as founding a subgenre later authors built on) rather than an award record.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Imaro: position 2 of 4: previous Imaro (1981) · next The Trail of Bohu (1985)
Sources
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