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    Read the first chapter of Ellen Kushner's stunning Swordspoint. About Swordspoint: Award-winning author Ellen Kushner's classic of modern fantasy, set in a world of unforgettable characters whose political ambitions, passionate love affairs and age-old rivalries collide with deadly results. On the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword. Even the nobles on the Hill turn to duels to settle their disputes. Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St Vier is the undisputed master, as skilled as he is ruthless- until a death by the sword is met with outrage instead a of awe, and the city discovers that the line between hero and villain can be altered in the blink of an eye . . .

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    ELLEN KUSHNER

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    First published in 1987 by Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd.


    This edition first published in Great Britain in 2016 by Gollancz
    an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
    Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment
    London EC4Y 0DZ
    An Hachette UK Company
    1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2
    Copyright Ellen Kushner 1987
    The moral right of Ellen Kushner to be identified as
    the author of this work has been asserted in accordance
    with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
    reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted
    in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
    photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the
    prior permission of both the copyright owner and the
    above publisher of this book.
    All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance
    to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
    A CIP catalogue record for this book is
    available from the British Library.
    ISBN 978 1 473 21472 9
    Printed in Great Britain by
    CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY

    www.ellenkushner.com
    www.orionbooks.co.uk
    www.gollancz.co.uk

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    For the Other One

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    Man desiresthat which is Good.

    Plato

    We all have faults, he said.

    and mine is being wicked.
    James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks

    In the end . . . everything will be found

    to be true of everybody.

    Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar

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