Books of Swords, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 24 relations: Anthropomorphism, Aphrodite, Apocalypse, Berserker (novel series), Dan Wells (author), Dark Ages (historiography), Empire of the East series, Fantasy, Fred Saberhagen, Free love, Greco-Roman world, Hindus, Jinn, Millennium, Nuclear holocaust, Pantheon (religion), Protagonist, Science fiction, Scorched earth, Survival of the fittest, Thrall, Thundarr the Barbarian, Torture, World war.

2. Dying Earth (genre)

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.

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Aphrodite

Aphrodite is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman goddess counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.

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Apocalypse

Apocalypse is a literary genre originating in Judaism in the centuries following the Babylonian exile (597-587 BCE) but persisting in Christianity and Islam.

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Berserker (novel series)

The Berserker series is a series of space opera science fiction short stories and novels by Fred Saberhagen, in which robotic self-replicating machines strive to destroy all life.

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Daniel Andrew Wells (born March 4, 1977) is an American horror and science fiction author.

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Dark Ages (historiography)

The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages (–10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages (–15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.

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Empire of the East series

The Empire of the East series is composed of four science fiction/fantasy novels by Fred Saberhagen. Books of Swords and Empire of the East series are science fiction book series.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Fred Saberhagen

Fred Thomas Saberhagen (May 18, 1930 – June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and novels.

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Free love

Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love.

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Greco-Roman world

The Greco-Roman civilization (also Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were directly and intimately influenced by the language, culture, government and religion of the Greeks and Romans.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Jinn

Jinn (جِنّ), also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies, are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture and beliefs.

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Millennium

A millennium is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a '''kiloannum''' (ka), or kiloyear (ky).

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Nuclear holocaust

A nuclear holocaust, also known as a nuclear apocalypse, nuclear annihilation, nuclear armageddon, or atomic holocaust, is a theoretical scenario where the mass detonation of nuclear weapons causes widespread destruction and radioactive fallout.

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Pantheon (religion)

A pantheon is the particular set of all gods of any individual polytheistic religion, mythology, or tradition.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.

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Survival of the fittest

"Survival of the fittest" is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection.

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Thrall

A thrall was a slave or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age.

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Thundarr the Barbarian

Thundarr the Barbarian is an American Saturday morning animated series, created by Steve Gerber (of Howard the Duck fame) and produced by Ruby-Spears Productions.

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Torture

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.

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World war

A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers.

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See also

Dying Earth (genre)

• A World Out of Time
• Against the Fall of Night
• Beyond the Fall of Night
• Books of Swords
• Casshern Sins
• City (novel)
• City at the End of Time
• Dark Is the Sun
• Darkness (poem)
• Dying Earth
• Dying Earth (genre)
• Dying of the Light (Martin novel)
• Echoes of the Goddess
• Giant of World's End
• History Lesson
• Hothouse (novel)
• Le Dernier Homme
• Lords of the Starship
• Love (2011 film)
• Mighty Samson
• Mobile Fighter G Gundam
• One Million A.D.
• Rescue Party
• The Barbarian of World's End
• The Book of the New Sun
• The Citadel of the Autarch
• The City and the Stars
• The Claw of the Conciliator
• The Dancers at the End of Time
• The Dark Eidolon
• The Deep (short story)
• The Dream of X
• The Enchantress of World's End
• The House on the Borderland
• The Immortal of World's End
• The Late Philip J. Fry
• The Night Land
• The Pirate of World's End
• The Shadow of the Torturer
• The Shattered Goddess
• The Sword of the Lictor
• The Time Machine
• The Warrior of World's End
• Till A' the Seas
• Viriconium
• Wolf's Rain
• Zothique (collection)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Swords

Also known as Book of Swords, Books of Lost Swords, Books of the Swords, Coinspinner, Doomgiver, Dragonslicer, Farslayer, First Book of Swords, Mindsword, Second Book of Swords, Shieldbreaker, Sightblinder, Soulcutter, Swords of Power, The Books of Swords, Third Book of Swords, Townsaver, Twelve Swords, Twelve Swords of Power, Woundhealer.