Series
Liavek
Pamela Dean, Will Shetterly, Emma Bull, Patricia C. Wrede, John M. Ford, Kara Dalkey, Steven Brust, Robin Hobb, Jane Yolen, Bradley Denton, Charles de Lint, Gene Wolfe, Gregory Frost, Nancy Kress, Nathan A. Bucklin, Alan Moore, Barry B. Longyear, Caroline Stevermer, Charles R. Saunders, Lee Barwood & Walter Jon Williams · 7 novellas · 24 novelettes · 22 short stories · 2 collections · 5 anthologies · 1985–2020
Liavek is a series of five fantasy anthologies edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly set in a shared world. Orson Scott Card found the initial volume to be "an example of what can be accomplished [in a shared-world project] when almost everything goes right."
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Liavek at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s48
- 1990s7
- 2000s1
- 2010s3
- 2020s1
Shape
7 novellas · 24 novelettes · 22 short stories · 2 collections · 5 anthologies
21 authors
reads like:fantasywizardssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedmysteriousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 41% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book29 of 60 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Mad Goddarkest
- Rikiki and the Wizardbrightest
- Paint the Meadows with Delightcalmest
- Riding the Hammermost intense