2025 marks 40 years since the publication of The Crown of Kings, the final volume of Steve Jackson's seminal gamebook miniseries, Sorcery!
The conclusion of the Sorcery! series starts with the Analander climbing through the Xamen Peaks to reach the Mampang Fortress, and then battle
their way through the Archmage’s lair. The Crown of Kings came in at a whopping 800 references (a record yet
to be broken by any other Fighting Fantasy gamebook) and was as epic an adventure
as any Sorcery! fan could have hoped for. It also featured
one of the most memorable (and clever) denouements of any adventure ever published,
not to mention encounters with a god-headed Hydra and entire societies of birdmen
and she-satyrs.
When pressed on the subject of which of the gamebooks he has written are his favourites,
Jackson cites two: “Warlock because it was the first. And Sorcery! because it was the most complex.
Creating a four-part adventure in which your actions in Book 2 might affect your
choices in Book 4 was a real challenge.”
All four volumes are in print again in the UK, courtesy of Scholastic Books. And all four volumes are also now available in Portuguese, from Brazilian publisher Jambô Editora, including The Crown of Kings, which had previously been available in Brazil.
Rather like the recent Danish editions of the Sorcery! series, the Brazilian ones also come with a unique slipcase.
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