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Scythe is a 2016 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. It is set in the far future, where death, disease, and unhappiness have been virtually eliminated due to advances in technology, and a benevolent artificial intelligence known as the Thunderhead peacefully governs a united Earth.
Highly skilled in using the sword and anqi (projectile weapons), he was a former anti-Qing resistance fighter and has been a wanted fugitive of the Qing government. He went into hiding by disguising himself as a scholar named "Lu Gaozhi" ( 陸高止 ) and becoming a private tutor in Li Yuanzhi's house.
He subsequently appears as a main character and a supporting protagonist in The House of Hades and The Sun and the Star. In Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades, demigod Ethan Nakamura uses the sword of Hades to release Iapetus from where he has been locked in Tartarus for millennia. Iapetus battles Percy Jackson, Nico, and Thalia Grace ...
His tools became well known throughout the Western Hemisphere, and lumbermen were proud to have the name "I. Blood" stamped on their axes. In the American Civil War, Blood manufactured an order of battle-axes for a Massachusetts artillery company in the Union Army measuring two feet long (resembling a short, slightly curved sword).
The "book" in the title refers to a Quran that was stolen from the tribe while the "sword" refers to a sword given to the protagonist, Chen Jialuo, by his first romantic interest, Huoqingtong. Historical figures such as the Qianlong Emperor , Zhaohui , Heshen , Zheng Banqiao and Fuk'anggan also make appearances or are mentioned by name in the ...
The Book of Swords series is also linked to the Empire of the East series, which is set in the same universe and presents the backstory to the series. [3] The first three works in the Empire of the East series predate the Book of Swords series (The Broken Lands (1968), The Black Mountains (1971), and Changeling Earth (1973), also titled Ardneh's World), with the fourth Empire of the East book ...
Joseph Jenckes Sr. (baptized August 26, 1599 – March 16, 1683), also spelled Jencks and Jenks, was a bladesmith, blacksmith, mechanic, and inventor who was instrumental in establishing the Saugus Iron Works in Massachusetts Bay Colony where he was granted the first machine patent in North America.
Swords and Sorcery is an anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by L. Sprague de Camp and illustrated by Virgil Finlay. It was first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1963, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but most of the stories were originally from 1930s pulp magazines .