The Liveship Traders Trilogy
Robin Hobb
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Ship of Magic First Published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1998 Copyright © Robin Hobb 1998
The Mad Ship First Published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1999 Copyright © Robin Hobb 1999
Ship of Destiny First Published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2000 Copyright © Robin Hobb 2000
Cover Layout design © HarperCollinsPublishersLtd. 2015
Illustrations © Jackie Morris.
Calligraphy by Stephen Raw. Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com - background
Robin Hobb asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Praise for The Liveship Traders series:
‘Even better than the Assassin books. I didn’t think that was possible’
GEORGE R R MARTIN
‘Robin Hobb writes achingly well’
SFX
‘A wonderful book, by a writer at the height of her abilities’
J V JONES
‘A beautifully balanced story’
Manchester Evening News
‘It’s been a long time coming, but there’s a fantasy writer in our midst who’s doing something serious with a genre that deserves a lot of the cynicism directed its way. Always fascinating, its seriousness is balanced by an epic backdrop of events’
SFX
‘Put together with exceptional skill, deployed on a grand scale’
Interzone
Table of Contents
Ship of Magic
Book One of The Liveship Traders
Robin Hobb
HarperVoyager An mprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by Voyager 1998
Copyright © Robin Hobb 1998
Cover Layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 2015 Illustrations © Jackie Morris. Calligraphy by Stephen Raw. Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com (background)
This edition 2008
Robin Hobb asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication
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