Series
Orcs: First Blood
Stan Nicholls · 3 novels · 1999–2000
Orcs: First Blood is a series of books written by Stan Nicholls. It includes: Bodyguard of Lightning, Legion of Thunder and Warriors of the Tempest. The books focus on the conflicts between a group of orcs and humans, but through the unconventional view of the orcs. The trilogy, first printed in the United Kingdom by Victor Gollancz Ltd, has become international bestseller, with over one million copies sold and the first two books, Bodyguard of Lightning and Legion of Thunder, received Best Novel nominations at the 1999 British Fantasy Awards. The sequel of Orcs: First Blood is Orcs: Bad Blood, which includes Bad Blood: Weapons of Magical Destruction, Bad Blood: Army of Shadows and Bad Blood: Inferno.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Orcs: First Blood 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.
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By decade
- 1990s2
- 2000s1
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Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Warriors of the Tempestdarkest · calmest
- Bodyguard of Lightningbrightest · most intense