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.
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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The Liveship Traders
The Liveship Traders
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Immersive worldbuilding and deeply character-driven narratives define the Realm of the Elderlings fantasy universe, which began with the 1995 publication of Assassin's Apprentice. Speculative fiction writer Robin Hobb crafted this setting across sixteen interconnected novels, including The Farseer Trilogy and The Liveship Traders Trilogy, alongside notable short fiction featured in anthologies such as Legends II: Shadows, Gods and Demons.
Born Margaret Astrid Lindholm in Oakland, California in 1952, she spent her early childhood in Berkeley and Terra Linda before her family relocated to Fairbanks, Alaska when she was ten years old. Her upbringing in rural Alaska and the Pacific Northwest wilderness strongly influenced her writing. She married Fred Ogden at age eighteen in 1970, living in Kodiak, Alaska and Hawaii before settling in the Pacific Northwest. Early in her career, she wrote children's fiction and published short stories, including "Bones for Dulath" in 1979, using her birth name Megan Lindholm. Her first novel, Harpy's Flight, appeared in 1984 as the start of the Windsingers series, followed by urban fantasy works such as Wizard of the Pigeons.
In 1995, she adopted the pen name Robin Hobb to publish Assassin's Apprentice, marking her transition into epic secondary-world fantasy. She has lived in Tacoma, Washington, USA, and on a pocket farm near Roy, Washington, while continuing to write under both Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb.
Her fantasy novels are recognized for first-person psychological intimacy, emotional realism, and detailed exploration of human-animal connections, physical trauma, and political intrigue. In Ship of Magic, she expanded into ensemble third-person perspectives, blending nautical realism with fantasy elements centered on sentient wooden vessels and maritime commerce. Her work consistently emphasizes the long-term consequences of power, duty, and sacrifice on individual lives.
3 books in catalog
Immersive worldbuilding and deeply character-driven narratives define the Realm of the Elderlings fantasy universe, which began with the 1995 publication of Assassin's Apprentice. Speculative fiction writer Robin Hobb crafted this setting across sixteen interconnected novels, including The Farseer Trilogy and The Liveship Traders Trilogy, alongside notable short fiction featured in anthologies such as Legends II: Shadows, Gods and Demons.
Born Margaret Astrid Lindholm in Oakland, California in 1952, she spent her early childhood in Berkeley and Terra Linda before her family relocated to Fairbanks, Alaska when she was ten years old. Her upbringing in rural Alaska and the Pacific Northwest wilderness strongly influenced her writing. She married Fred Ogden at age eighteen in 1970, living in Kodiak, Alaska and Hawaii before settling in the Pacific Northwest. Early in her career, she wrote children's fiction and published short stories, including "Bones for Dulath" in 1979, using her birth name Megan Lindholm. Her first novel, Harpy's Flight, appeared in 1984 as the start of the Windsingers series, followed by urban fantasy works such as Wizard of the Pigeons.
In 1995, she adopted the pen name Robin Hobb to publish Assassin's Apprentice, marking her transition into epic secondary-world fantasy. She has lived in Tacoma, Washington, USA, and on a pocket farm near Roy, Washington, while continuing to write under both Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb.
Her fantasy novels are recognized for first-person psychological intimacy, emotional realism, and detailed exploration of human-animal connections, physical trauma, and political intrigue. In Ship of Magic, she expanded into ensemble third-person perspectives, blending nautical realism with fantasy elements centered on sentient wooden vessels and maritime commerce. Her work consistently emphasizes the long-term consequences of power, duty, and sacrifice on individual lives.
