Divided Allegiance - Paks leaves the mercenaries to enter training as a paladin candidate in the order of Saint Gird.She comes out relatively well for it but starts to wonder whether she's always going to be fighting for the right reasons and where her allegiances ought to lie. She signs up with the mercenary company of Duke Phelan, undergoes training and fights in her first wars. Sheepfarmer's Daughter - 18 year old Paksenarrion ("Paks" for short) runs away from home and an unwanted Arranged Marriage to become a warrior.
The first series written by Elizabeth Moon first released in 1988, a work of Heroic Fantasy divided into three books: The scroll Dorthan reads is headed The Deed of Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter of Three Firs, and many are the tales of courage and adventure written therein." She wishes you to have them and has no need of them." And though he accepted water from their well, he would say no more of Paksenarrion, whether she lived or lay buried far away, whether she would return or no. "Keep these," the stranger said, "in memory of your daughter Paksenarrion.
of the day a stranger rode up, robed and mantled in white, an old man with thin silver hair, and handed down the box and the sword, naked as it hangs now. Gird the cross-hilts are gracefully shaped and chased in gold. The pommel's knot design is centered with the deeply graven seal of St. The other is a very different matter: long and straight, keen-edged, of the finest sword-steel, silvery and glinting blue even in yellow firelight. Elizabeth Moon became a published novelist in 1988 with the novel The Sheepfarmer’s Daughter."In a sheepfarmer's low stone house, high in the hills above Three Firs, two swords hang now above the mantelpiece. She then got her science fiction stories published in the Analog magazine. Besides writing, she is also a musician and a fencer.Įlizabeth Moon didn’t start writing until she was in her mid-30s when she start writing a local newspaper column. She has won the 1989 Compton Crook Award for Sheepfarmer’s Daughter, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel for the novel The Speed of Dark and the 2007 Robert A. Her sci-fi novels largely have military themes, but also cover other themes such as biology and politics. Elizabeth got her Bachelor’s degree in History from Rice University before joining the U.S. She writes the Paksenarrion universe series, Familias Regnant universe (aka the Serrano Legacy) series and Vatta’s War series. Elizabeth Moon is an American author of military science fiction and fantasy novels.
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