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Epic Fantasy

Ship of Magic

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  • 1998 first published
  • 699 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (25 ratings)
  • 15 editions
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Ship of Magic is a 1998 epic fantasy novel by Robin Hobb. It deals with the Realm of the Elderlings and the Liveship Traders.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 25 ratings, and 104 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 15 editions.

It runs to roughly 699 pages — 12–13 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Ship of Magic

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships—rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown’s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea’s young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the ship, the Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the ship—and the Vestrits—may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider: the ruthless buccaneer captain Kennit, who plans to seize power over the Pirate Isles by capturing a liveship and bending it to his will.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • The Realm of the Elderlings
  • The Liveship Traders
  • English Fantasy fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Epic fantasy
  • American Fantasy fiction

Quick answers

Who wrote Ship of Magic?

Ship of Magic was written by Robin Hobb and first published in 1998.

What genre is Ship of Magic?

It is usually shelved as Epic Fantasy.

How long is Ship of Magic?

The median edition has 699 pages, about 12–13 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Ship of Magic?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2), The Shadow Rising and Lord of Chaos.

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