lawrence watt-evans

Hi, I'm looking for help to identify a book that I read about 30 years ago, of which I can only remember the story line and I'd like to know the title of the book and the author so that I can perhaps read the book again and perhaps other books by the same author. The story line that I remember...

The Wizard Lord Lawrence Watt-Evans Tor, Mar 2006, $26.95, 336 pp. ISBN 0765310260 The Wizard Lord rules over Barokan, but his powers are kept somewhat in check by The Chosen Ones (the Leader, the Seer, the Swordsman, the Beauty, the Thief, the Scholar, the Archer, and the Speaker) who can...

The Ninth Talisman Lawrence Watt Evans Tor, May 2007, $25.95, 300 pp. ISBN 0765310279 After the Swordsman killed the Dark Lord of the Galbook Hlls, a Wizard Lord gone rogue, he returned to his small community of Mad Oak and became part of the farming community. He is one of eight Chosen, men...

The Summer Palace Lawrence Watts-Evans Tor, Jun 2008, $24.95 ISBN: 9780765310286 The Red Wizard continues his campaign to kill all other magical practitioners including his peers and the Chosen, those humans specifically selected by the Council of Wizards to protect people from magical abuse of...

A Young Man Without Magic Lawrence Watt-Evans Tor, Nov 2009, $27.95 ISBN: 9780765322791 In Lume, food riots break out while noble magicians use commoners as sacrifices to bring in a needed harvest. The orphaned son of two renowned sorcerers who died using magic, Anrel Marau shows no skills so...

What does a chap do with an enchanted sword? This is what Valder, an army scout, has the problem of finding out after his sword is enchanted by a disgruntled wizard in a hurry and finding that enchantment can be a double edged. Obviously it kills people, even if only one at a time. So the...