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Merovingen Nights

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Merovingen Nights Angel With the Sword (1985) Festival Moon (1987) Fever Season (1987) Troubled Waters (1988) Smuggler's Gold (1988) Divine Right (1989) Flood Tide (1990) Endgame (1991)

Angel With the Sword cover
Novel and short stories by C. J. Cherryh Lynn Abbey Nancy Asire Robert Lynn Asprin Leslie Fish Mercedes Lackey Chris Morris Janet Morris Roberta Rogow Bradley H. Sinor
Illustrator	Tim Hildebrandt (original cover artwork)
Released	1985 – 1991
Publisher	DAW Books (US)
Genre	Shared world science fantasy
Pages	2437
Edited by	C. J. Cherryh (anthologies)
Story timeline	Alliance-Union universe, after 3240 A.D.

Merovingen Nights is a series of shared world science fiction books set in writer C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe. There are eight books in the series, one novel by Cherryh and seven short fiction anthologies which Cherryh edited. The books were published by DAW Books between 1985 and 1991. The books take place on the planet Merovin in the Alliance-Union universe after 3240 A.D., and as such, they are definitively science fiction. But the level of technology on the planet is quite backwards for the 33rd century. For example, most personal weaponry is of the knife or sword variety; relatively few firearms are available and in any case nothing more advanced than a revolver. In addition, the planet Merovin is isolated, forsaken by the rest of humanity because of poor interstellar relations with an aggressive alien species, the Sharrh. Because of these limitations on technology, trade, and travel, and because many of the stories feature swordplay and skullduggery, the series is reminiscent of the old sword and planet subgenre of speculative fiction. As such, the term science fantasy might be a more appropriate label for the books than science fiction.

List of books

Novels

Angel With the Sword (1985), C. J. Cherryh (precedes Festival Moon)

Anthologies

Festival Moon (1987) – Merovingen Nights #1
Fever Season (1987) – Merovingen Nights #2
Troubled Waters (1988) – Merovingen Nights #3
Smuggler's Gold (1988) – Merovingen Nights #4
Divine Right (1989) – Merovingen Nights #5
Flood Tide (1990) – Merovingen Nights #6
Endgame (1991) – Merovingen Nights #7

Contributing authors

The following authors contributed works of short fiction to the various anthologies:

Lynn Abbey
Nancy Asire
Robert Lynn Asprin
C. J. Cherryh
Leslie Fish
Mercedes Lackey, who subsequently re-worked some of her contribution into Shadow of the Lion
Chris Morris
Janet Morris
Roberta Rogow
Bradley H. Sinor

• • e Works by C. J. Cherryh (bibliography)
Science fiction novels	Gate of Ivrel (1976) • Brothers of Earth (1976) • Hunter of Worlds (1977) • The Faded Sun: Kesrith (1978) • The Faded Sun: Shon'jir (1978) • Well of Shiuan (1978) • The Faded Sun: Kutath (1979) • Fires of Azeroth (1979) • Hestia (1979) • Serpent's Reach (1980) • Wave Without a Shore (1981) • Downbelow Station (1981) • The Pride of Chanur (1981) • Merchanter's Luck (1982) • Port Eternity (1982) • Forty Thousand in Gehenna (1983) • Chanur's Venture (1984) • Voyager in Night (1984) • Angel With the Sword (1985) • Cuckoo's Egg (1985) • The Kif Strike Back (1985) • Chanur's Homecoming (1986) • Cyteen (1988) • Exile's Gate (1988) • Rimrunners (1989) • Heavy Time (1991) • Chanur's Legacy (1992) • Hellburner (1992) • Foreigner (1994) • Tripoint (1994) • Invader (1995) • Rider at the Gate (1995) • Cloud's Rider (1996) • Inheritor (1996) • Finity's End (1997) • Precursor (1999) • Defender (2001) • Hammerfall (2001) • Explorer (2003) • Forge of Heaven (2004) • Destroyer (2005) • Pretender (2006) • Deliverer (2007)
Fantasy novels	The Dreamstone (1983) • The Tree of Swords and Jewels (1983) • The Gates of Hell (1986) • Kings in Hell (1987) • Legions of Hell (1987) • The Paladin (1988) • Rusalka (1989) • Chernevog (1990) • Yvgenie (1991) • The Goblin Mirror (1992) • Faery in Shadow (1993) • Fortress in the Eye of Time (1995) • Lois & Clark: A Superman Novel (1996) • Fortress of Eagles (1998) • Fortress of Owls (1999) • Fortress of Dragons (2000) • Fortress of Ice (2006)
Short story collections	Sunfall (1981) • Visible Light (1986) • Glass and Amber (1987) • The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh (2004)