The Soprano Sorceress
core novel 1998 The Spellsong Cycle
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.71 (4,023 ratings, collected 2026-08-30) |
| Page count | 672 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312860226 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
The Soprano Sorceress, published in 1997, is set in the world of Erde, where music itself functions as a form of magic powerful enough that a single wrong note can be fatal to the singer. Anna Marshall, a middle-aged music instructor and small-time opera singer from Ames, Iowa, is unexpectedly transported to Erde, arriving with no resources beyond a lifetime of rigorous vocal training. That training proves to carry unexpected weight in Erde, where Anna's disciplined technique gives her the raw potential to become one of the realm's most powerful sorceresses, provided she can master the exacting demands of spellsinging before Erde's political and magical dangers overtake her. Isolated in an unfamiliar world and initially without allies, Anna must quickly learn both the rules of Erde's magic and the realm's precarious politics simply to survive.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Spellsong Cycle
- Series: The Spellsong Cycle core; position 1 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Notes
- From the series record (The Spellsong Cycle): Five-book sequence; a magic system built on the power of song, following a professional singer transported into a fantasy world.
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 The Spellsong Cycle: position 1 of 5: next The Spellsong War (1999)
Sources
- L.E. Modesitt, Jr. official website: The Spellsong Cycle
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsong_Cycle
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