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The Sword of Knowledge

C. J. Cherryh, Mercedes Lackey,
Nancy Asire, Leslie Fish

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

The Sword of Knowledge has been published in slightly different form as A Dirge for Sabis, copyright © 1989; Wizard Spawn, copyright © 1989; and Reap the Whirlwind, copyright © 1989; all by Tau Ceti, Inc.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Book

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com

ISBN: 0-7434-9875-5

Cover art by Gary Ruddell

First hardcover printing, January 2005

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Production & interior design by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America

Baen Books by C.J. Cherryh

The Paladin

The Sword of Knowledge
(with Leslie Fish, Nancy Asire & Mercedes Lackey)

Baen Books by Mercedes Lackey

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The Lark & the Wren
The Robin & the Kestrel
The Eagle & the Nightingales

The Free Bards
(omnibus)

Four & Twenty Blackbirds

Bardic Choices: A Cast of Corbies
(with Josepha Sherman)

The Fire Rose
Fiddler Fair
Werehunter

The Ship Who Searched
(with Anne McCaffrey)

Wing Commander:
Freedom Flight
(with Ellen Guon)

Lammas Night
(ed. by Josepha Sherman)

The Shadow of the Lion
(with Eric Flint & Dave Freer)

This Rough Magic
(with Eric Flint & Dave Freer)

This Scepter'd Isle
(with Roberta Gellis)

Ill Met by Moonlight
(with Roberta Gellis)

The Wizard of Karres
(with Eric Flint & Dave Freer)

Brain Ships
(omnibus with Anne -McCaffrey & Margaret Ball)

URBAN FANTASIES

Bedlam's Bard
(omnibus with Ellen Guon)

Beyond World's End
(with Rosemary Edghill)

Spirits White as Lightning
(with Rosemary Edghill)

Mad Maudlin
(with Rosemary Edghill)

The SERRAted Edge:

Chrome Circle
(omnibus with Larry Dixon)

The Chrome Borne
(omnibus with Larry Dixon)

The Otherworld
(omnibus with Mark Shepherd & Holly Lisle)

THE BARD'S TALE NOVELS

Castle of Deception
(with Josepha Sherman)

Fortress of Frost & Fire
(with Ru Emerson)

Prison of Souls
(with Mark Shepherd)

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