Book Preview 1 The Earliest History A History of the Six Duchies is of necessity a history of its ruling family, the Farseers. A complete telling would reach back beyond the founding of the First Duchy and, if such names were remembered, would tell us of Outislanders raiding from the sea, visiting as pirates a … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE The Unremembered file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Tony/My%20Docum…ssin’s%20Quest(1997)[v2](html)/Assassin’s%20Quest.htm (3 of 753)12/11/2005 20:42:19 I AWAKE EVERY MORNING with ink on my hands. Sometimes I am sprawled,facedown, on my worktable, amidst a welter of scrolls and papers. My boy,when he comes in with my tray, may dare to chide me for not taking myselfoff to bed the night before. … Read more
Book Preview A Jas-Scan Production Version 1 [if you make corrections, please change the version to a higher number] —————————————————————————————————————- PROLOGUE Dreams and Awakenings WHY IS IT forbidden to write down specific knowledge of the magics? Perhaps because we all fear that such knowledge would fall into the hands of one not worthy to … Read more
Book Preview Closing the Circle 25TH ANNIVERSARY ILLUSTRATED EDITION of ASSASSIN’S APPRENTICE Robin Hobb In May of 1995, Bantam Books published Assassin’s Apprentice, a fantasy novel ostensibly by a new writer: Robin Hobb. As I write this foreword, more than two decades have passed. Those two decades have seen a great deal of change in … Read more
Book Preview ONEChade Fallstar Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?Kelstar’s Riddle He came one late, wet spring, and brought the wide world back to my doorstep. I was thirty-five that year. When I was twenty, I would have considered a man of my current age to be teetering on … Read more
Book Preview MAULKIN ABRUPTLY HEAVED HIMSELF out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles. Shreds of his shed skin floated with the sand and mud like the dangling remnants of dreams when one awakes. He moved his long sinuous body through a lazy loop, rubbing against himself … Read more
Book Preview My dear Lady Fennis, We have been friends far too long for me to be circumspect. As you so delicately hinted, yes, there has been shattering news delivered to me. My stepson, Prince Chivalry, has exposed himself as the crude fellow I have always known him to be. His bastard child, fathered on … Read more