''Season of Storms'' (

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original title: ''Sezon burz'') is the sixth novel and eighth overall book in the '' Witcher'' series written by Polish

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writer

Andrzej Sapkowski Andrzej Sapkowski (; born 21 June 1948) is a Polish fantasy writer, essayist, translator and a trained economist. He is best known for his six-volume series of books ''The Witcher'', which revolves around the eponymous "witcher," a monster-hunte ...

, first published in Poland in 2013. It is not a sequel to the original ''Witcher Saga'', but rather is set between the short stories in the first book in the series, ''

The Last Wish ''The Last Wish'' ( pl, Ostatnie życzenie) is the third published short story collection in Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski's ''The Witcher'' series. Published by SuperNowa in 1993, it was preceded by 1992's ''Sword of Destiny'', but i ...

''. ''Fox Children'', the second installment of ''The Witcher'' comic book series published by

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, is based on one of the chapters of ''Season of Storms''. The book, with translations by David French, was published in May 2018 in hardcover format in the US and paperback format by UK Orbit (US) and Gollancz (UK). It is also available in both territories as an e-book and audiobook.

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fights a dangerous monster whose only goal in life is to kill people. Shortly afterwards, he is arrested, resulting in the loss of two of his priceless witcher swords. With a little help from his friend Dandelion and his connections, he does everything he can to get his work tools back. In the meantime, he gets into an affair with the sorceress Lytta Neyd (nicknamed Coral), meets influential people and the social margin associated with the country where he lost his swords - Kerack. Geralt soon gets dragged into two dangerous conspiracies (one involving a group of sorcerers, and another involving King Belohun and his bitter sons). These events and the undisguised and reciprocated reluctance of the magicians towards Geralt (who turn out to be related to this story) make the whole thing a series of failures, during which the hero is forced to make difficult decisions. The epilogue of the book is set years after ''

The Witcher ''The Witcher'' ( pl, Wiedźmin ) is a series of six fantasy novels and 15 short stories written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The series revolves around the eponymous "witcher", Geralt of Rivia. In Sapkowski's works, "witchers" are bea ...

'' Saga.

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In 2014, ''

'' and ''

The Sword of Destiny ''Sword of Destiny'' ( pl, Miecz przeznaczenia) is the second published short story collection in Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski's ''The Witcher'' series. Although published in 1992, it is officially considered the second entry in the ...

'', Fonopolis and audioteka.pl released Polish audio plays based on ''Season of Storms''. This was voiced by 84 actors, including Krzysztof Banaszyk as Geralt, Karolina Gorczyca as Coral,

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as Yennefer, Sławomir Pacek as Dandelion, Adam Ferency as Pinety, Piotr Bajor as Xander and Krzysztof Gosztyła as narrator.

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2013 novels Polish novels The Witcher 21st-century Polish novels Polish fantasy novels Victor Gollancz Ltd books {{2010s-novel-stub

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