![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The short story collection ProtoZoa contains five very early tales-three (1980s) contemporary fantasy, twoscience fiction-all previously published but not in this handy format. In terms of internal world chronology, The Hallowed Hunt wouldfall first, the Penric novellas perhaps a hundred and fifty years later, and TheCurse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls would follow a century or soafter that. What were called the Chalion booksafter the setting of its first two volumes, but which now that the geographicscope has widened I'm dubbing the World of the Five Gods, were written to bestand-alones as part of a larger whole, and can in theory be read in any order.Some readers think the world-building is easier to assimilate when the booksare read in publication order, and the second volume certainly containsspoilers for the first (but not the third.) In any case, the publication orderis: Next easiest are the four volumes of The SharingKnife-in order, Beguilement, Legacy, Passage, and Horizon-whichI broke down and actually numbered, as this was one continuous tale dividedinto non-wrist-breaking chunks. Easiest of all is The Spirit Ring, which is a stand-alone, oraquel, as some wag once dubbed books that for some obscure reason failed tospawn a subsequent series. ![]()
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