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Anna Smith Spark

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Born

January 11

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http://courtofbrokenknives.org/

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Fantasy

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January 2015

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'Game of Literary Thrones ... the next generation hit fantasy fiction' The Sunday Times

Anna Smith Spark lives in London, UK. She loves grimdark and epic fantasy and historical military fiction. Anna has a BA in Classics, an MA in history and a PhD in English Literature. She has previously been published in the Fortean Times and the poetry website www.greatworks.org.uk. Previous jobs include petty bureaucrat, English teacher and fetish model.

Anna's favourite authors and key influences are R. Scott Bakker, Steve Erikson, M. John Harrison, Ursula Le Guin, Mary Stewart and Mary Renault. She spent several years as an obsessive D&D player. She can often be spotted at sff conventions wearing very unusual shoes.
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Average rating: 3.68 · 4,672 ratings · 1,076 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Court of Broken Knives (Empires of Dust, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 2,517 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tower of Living and Dying (Empires of Dust, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 689 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art of War by Petros Triantafyllou (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brian D. Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Ed Greenwood (Contributor) 3.96 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2018 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy (Unfettered, #3) by Shawn Speakman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tad Williams (Goodreads Author), Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Sacrifice (Empires of Dust, #3) 3.84 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman of the Sword 4.08 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King Must Fall by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Myers (Editor), Sarah Chorn (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.99 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Collection of Obsessions by Michael R. Fletcher, Anna Smith Spark (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.33 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sword of Bronze and Ashes 3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimdark Magazine Issue #12 by Adrian Collins (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard Lee Byers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Luke Scull (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A wise man who's ignored is about as effective as an idiot who's listened to.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Court of Broken Knives

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“The war drums pound out a beat like that of the human heart. The terrible, awful sound of living, that one first learns to love and tremble at when floating in the womb.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Court of Broken Knives

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“kill you. But that … The god thing dived. Blazing golden. Pure pure perfect perfect life and hope. Marith killed it down with one blow.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying

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July/August '17 Group Read

Evil is a Matter of Perspective: An Anthology of Antagonists edited by Adrian Collins

6 votes, 35.3%

Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames

5 votes, 29.4%

Red Sister by Mark Lawrence

3 votes, 17.6%

Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell

2 votes, 11.8%

The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark

1 vote, 5.9%

Age of Iron by Angus Watson

0 votes, 0.0%

The Grim Company by Luke Scull

0 votes, 0.0%

The Mountains Rise by Michael G. Manning

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