Description: Kage Baker's fantasy debut, the first novel of a new series Kage Baker's stories and novels of the mysterious entity that controls time travel, The Company, have made her famous in SF. Now she moves to Tor with her first fantasy novel, a journey across a fantastic landscape filled with bizarre creatures, human and otherwise. The Anvil of the World is the tale of Smith, and his feud-prone people, the Children of the Sun. Smith, formerly a succcessful assassin, is trying to retire, hoping to live an honest life in obscurity in spite of all those who have sworn to kill him. But when he agrees to be the master of a caravan traveling from the inland city of Troon to Salesh by the sea, trouble follows. As always, Baker's approach is charmingly distinctive. Smith's adventure is certainly the only fantasy featuring a white-uniformed nurse, gourmet cuisine, one hundred and forty-four glass butterflies, and a steamboat.

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