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The Sharing Knife

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The Sharing Knife
Beguilement (2006) and Legacy (2007).
Passage (2008) and Horizon (2009).
Knife Children (2019).
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
Original title
The Wide Green World
Cover artistJulie Bell, Ron Miller
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
PublisherEos (HarperCollins)
Media typePrint, electronic
No. of books5

The Sharing Knife is a romance/fantasy series by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, published in 2006–2019. The original story grew so long in the telling that it was split into two volumes: Beguilement (2006) and Legacy (2007). Bujold then wrote a sequel, which was also divided, into Passage (2008) and Horizon (2009). The original title of the sequel was The Wide Green World,[1] but Bujold and her publisher decided to make "Sharing Knife" the overall title, with the individual books given one-word subtitles and numbered 1–4. The fifth story in the series, a "short novel"[2] titled Knife Children, was released as an electronic book on January 25, 2019.[3]

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Background

Beguilement establishes a fictional space inspired by the part of North America Bujold grew up in: the country south of the Great Lakes. Recovery from a grand collapse of a prior high magical culture has brought population and technology back to roughly the state of the early 19th-century American frontier—minus gunpowder. The grand collapse is accounted for in terms of hubris, though not in technology but in spirit, for lack of a clearer term, with a caste of near-magical aristocrats all but wiped out in a series of wars with their spirit-eating creation and its hatchlings, termed malices or blight bogles.

A malice feeds on 'life force' or, in the novel's terms, ground—which includes not only the internal order of living beings, but also the structural integrity of all matter, the emergent properties of form and function. It is able to mold man-like agents out of wild animals, called "mud-men", and to absorb the knowledge and skills of humans that it kills. A malice that emerges in areas away from humans is likely to become somewhat strange, consuming only animals. The role of the clans of Lakewalkers, descendants of the said near-magical aristocracy, is to patrol the lands around the Dead Lake (remnant of the several Great Lakes) and to kill newly hatched malices as early in their careers as may be. This they do with knives made from the thigh bones of their own dead, "primed" in the suicide of a mortally wounded or aged Lakewalker so that their death may be "shared" with the otherwise immortal malice. Hence the series title.

The Lakewalker caste's lifeway approximates Native Americans' hunter-gatherer-warrior nomadism after adoption of the horse, but differs by maintaining a single culture and language and an all-hinterland-spanning quasi-military order, the Patrol, which Lakewalker camps spend considerable resources to support. Southeast seacoast survivors from the commoner caste have been invited by them to re-settle the area south of the Dead Lake. Anyone not a Lakewalker is labeled a farmer. Farmers have little or none of the Lakewalkers' great talent and tool: "ground sense". With this, it is possible to detect and read details of all living things, as well as innate qualities of inanimate objects—the underlying truth of the world—to a distance varying with individual talent and training—including the presence of malices. In its absence, Farmers tend to take a jaundiced view of Lakewalkers' activities and abilities, and to discount the role of Lakewalkers in their own survival. Although both Farmers and Lakewalkers are human, and they speak the same language, there are physical differences, in addition to the Lakewalkers' ability to sense and manipulate ground. Lakewalkers are significantly taller than Farmers, and Lakewalkers have a longer life-span.

References

  1. ^ Bujold, Lois McMaster (March 21, 2006). "March 21, 2006". The Bujold Nexus. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
  2. ^ "Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog - new Lakewalker novella impending - December 25, 2018 09:26". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  3. ^ "Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog - Knife Children is up! - January 25, 2019 08:31". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
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