Cover of The Wandering Fire

The Wandering Fire

core novel 1986 The Fionavar Tapestry

Record

First published1986
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.11 (19,402 ratings, collected 2026-08-06)
First-edition ISBN9780586215234
Internal chronology2

Where it sits

Awards (verified)

  • Prix Aurora Award (Best Long-Form Work in English), 1987: won
  • Casper Award (Best Speculative Fiction), 1987: won

Notes

  • From the series record (The Fionavar Tapestry): The complete trilogy, published in Canada by McClelland and Stewart (1984-1986). Five University of Toronto students are drawn into Fionavar, framed within the story as 'the first of worlds,' in a conflict woven from Arthurian and Celtic/Norse myth. Internal chronology equals publication order for all 3 volumes -- no dispute found, unlike Dragaera/Conan/Pern.

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.

Sources

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