Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners is a 1987 fantasy novel by Ellen Kushner. It is Kushner's debut novel and is one of several books and short stories in the Riverside series. Later editions of the novel were also bundled with three short stories set in the same universe. Swordspoint has been called a defining text of the fantasy of manners subgenre;[3] Kushner was one of the first authors to use the phrase "fantasy of manners" to describe her own and similar works.[1]
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^Walton, Jo (13 November 2008). "Fantasy of Manners". Tor.com. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
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Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners is a 1987 fantasy novel by Ellen Kushner. It is Kushner's debut novel and is one of several books and short stories...
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