Beyond Sanctuary

Janet Ellen Morris is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a nonlethal weapons concept for the U.S. military. Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 20 novels, many co-authored with her... husband Chris Morris or others. Her first novel, written as Janet E. Morris, was High Couch of Silistra, the first in a quartet of novels with a very strong female protagonist. She has contributed short fiction to the shared universe fantasy series Thieves World, in which she created the Sacred Band of Stepsons, a mythical unit of ancient fighters modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. She created, orchestrated, and edited the Bangsian fantasy series Heroes in Hell, writing stories for the series as well as co-writing the related novel, The Little Helliad, with Chris Morris. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and other novels. Her 1983 book "I, the Sun", a detailed biographical novel about the Hittite King Suppiluliuma I was praised for its historical accuracy; O.M.
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Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978. The original series comprised twelve anthologies, including stories by such science fiction authors as Poul Anderson, John Brunner, Andrew J. Offutt, C. J. Cherryh, Janet Morris, Chris Morris. The Morrises... introduced the Sacred Band of Stepsons in Thieves' World and spun off a series of novels about them and their ancient cavalry commander, Tempus. The first three novels in The Sacred Band of Stepsons saga were authorized Thieves World novels. Marion Zimmer Bradley was an early contributor, but spun off her main character in the novel Lythande and did not return for later volumes. The series went on hiatus after the twelfth anthology. In addition to the official anthologies, several authors published novels set in the milieu of Thieves World and published short stories in a variety of places. Thieves' World is set in the city of Sanctuary, located at the edge of the Rankan Empire. The city was depicted as a place where many were downtrodden and where the invading Rankan gods and the Ilsigi gods they had ousted begin a struggle for primacy.
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Thieves' World is a series of fantasy works written about the Thieves' World universe.

The Sacred Band is a series of books and stories written by Janet Morris and Chris Morris, chronicling the adventures of The Sacred Band of Stepsons in the Thieves World fictional shared universe and the Sacred Band of Stepsons universe.

In the Sacred Band of Stepsonsliterary series, Beyond Sanctuary is a sub-series of three books, written by Janet Morris, which form part of the Thieves' World fictional universe and the Sacred Band of Stepsons fictional universe. The Beyond Sanctuary literary series is part of the larger Sacred... Band literary series. In the Beyond Sanctuary literary series, over the course of three books, the Sacred Band of Stepsons goes to Tyse and beyond Sanctuary to fight the battle for Wizardwall and the Wizard Wars. The Beyond Sanctuary series consists of three books in the following order: "Beyond Sanctuary," "Beyond the Veil," and "Beyond Wizardwall." All three were published in the 1980s by Baen Books in hardcover, by Science Fiction Bookclub in hardcover, and by Ace Books in mass market trade paperback editions.
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