King's Blood Four

Books in the series The Peter series: King's Blood Four (Ace Books, 1983) (first novel) Necromancer Nine (Ace Books, 1983) Wizard's Eleven (Ace Books, 1984) All three stories were subsequently collected into a one-volume edition: The True Game (1985) The True Game is the collective name for a series of three related trilogies of short novels by Sheri S. Tepper. The novels explore the Lands of the True Game, a portion of a planet explored by humanity somewhere in the future. (As such, these novels could be classified as science fiction although this does not become apparent until quite late in the overall story; up to that point, the stories appear to be fantasy.) Each of the trilogies focuses on the point of view of one particular character. The Peter trilogy tells the story from the point of view of Peter, a shape-shifting youth. The Mavin series tells an earlier portion of the story from the point of view of Mavin Manyshaped, Peter's shape-shifting mother. The Jinian series overlaps with and extends the Peter series and tells the story from the point of view of Jinian, a young wizardly woman.