The Broken Sword
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The Broken Sword is a fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, originally published on 5 November 1954. A revised edition was issued by Ballantine Books in January 1971 as the twenty-fourth vol
Dust-jacket from the first edition.
Diana L. Paxson
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Diana Lucile Paxson is an American writer, primarily in the fields of paganism and heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories. Mor
The Broken Sword
…text, stating that the revised edition "weakened" the novel. Many others agreed with him and the original text remains, for most readers, definitive. Diana Paxson stated that reading The Broken Sword as a teen "changed [her] life", and led to her involvement in fantasy as a genre. Fantasy historian Brian Murphy…
Paxson in June 2016