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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Excalibur, Stormbringer, Lightsaber, Gram, Twelve Swords of Power, Heavenly Sword, Magic Sword, List of Fictional Swords, Star Saber, the Power Sword, Ten Powers, Ebony Blade, Vorpal Sword, Thu?n Thiên, Terminus Est, Four Treasures, Sword of Martin, the Black Sword, Colada, Heron-Mark Sword, Sword of Khaine, Singing Sword, Altwaals Weapons, Almace, the Swords of Night and Day, Godsbane, Flaming Sword, Durendal, Caladbolg, Grospoliner, Sword Kladenets, Dáinsleif, Crocea Mors, Chrysaor, Moonblade, Khazid'hea, Sword of Kas, Sword of Shannara, Graywand, Scalpel, Bat'leth, Mek'leth, Caudimordax, Grayswandir, Sakabat?, Green Destiny, Mournblade, the Swords of Blood and Fire, Powerstar, Drizzt Do'urden's Scimitars. Excerpt: The Twelve Swords of Power, Swords of Power, or swords featured in the epic Fred Saberhagen sci-fi/fantasy series, Books of the Swords. They are the central focus of the novels, and are often considered unique characters themselves. The Swords were created by Vulcan at the behest of the other gods of the Books of the Swords universe. They intended to use the Swords to play a game, pitting nations of mortals against one another, to relieve their boredom. By making the Swords and scattering them throughout the land, the gods hoped to derive amusement as men and women sought them out and lorded power over each other. Vulcan forged the Swords in the Ludus Mountains, in the hinterlands of the domain of Duke Fraktin. He conscripted mortal men from the nearby village of Treefall as assistants. Starting with meteoric iron and a powerful earth-fire, Vulcan completed each Sword by quenching it in human blood, sacrificing his unwilling assistants one by one. Only one man survived the forging process, the smith Jord, who lost one arm to th... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1452049