Do you have a favorite Blade related book?

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My favorite swordsman related books are Musashi and Shogun. But my favorite book that actually has a sword (The Honjo Masamune) driving the plot is Children of The Neon Bamboo. What are yours?
 
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Dune. First book.

I first read it when I was 16, a time when I was REALLY into knives and just starting to get really "cool" knives, like a pair of Parker Bros Gerber Mark 2 copies (I thought they were cool). I liked the reverence the Fremen had for their knives (Crysknife, made from the teeth of giant sandworms).

One of the interesting details I remember from the book was that there were two types of Crysknife, fixed and unfixed. The fixed were specially treated for storage, but an unfixed Crysknife had to remain close to a persons body (electric field) otherwise it would disintegrate.


On a related note- my username is a combination of two fictional character names, Kilgore (Apocalypse Now), and Stilgar (Dune).
 
Swords? Oh, man, there are so many. But your thread title says "knife related". I think Dune is my favorite for knives. A great many are mentioned and quite a few show up actively, not just the famous crysknife. Kindjal, dagger, "slip-tip", and others. Knife fighting features prominently due to the Holtzman shield.

Knives and swords feature prominently in Burroughs's A Princess of Mars, too.

I'm sure I'll come up with others, later.

Oh, LOTR and The Hobbit! How could I forget those three books?! 😲

Zieg

K killgar and I were typing simultaneously 😸
 
Richard Burton's 1884 Book of the Sword. And anything by Joe Abercrombie, who introduced Logan Nine Fingers, a.k.a. the Bloody Nine: "You can never have too many knives" in his The First Law trilogy.
 
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I only read it once as a teenager but it stuck with me.
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It’s an old sci-fi about a group of students taking a “final” for something like a planetary settlement/survival course, but they end up stranded on a planet for much longer than expected and it gets rough.

The main character initially decides to bring a knife as his primary tool, and just before he takes off for the journey his sister gives him her prized fixed blade as a backup (which he hides by wrapping it to his leg under his clothes). For some reason I frequently recall that part of the book. The rest of it - not so much. :)
 
My copy of Levine's Guide is out of camera range.

Hatchet (Gary Paulsen), My Side of The Mountain (Jean Craighead George), Monkey Wrench Gang (Ed Abbey, Hayduke's "warlike" Buck Special), (pre- Tracker) Tom Brown's survival guides, Bradford Angier, Usagi Yojimbo comic books all made a big impression.

Edit- forgot about Cassidy's Complete Book of Knife Fighting, and Rex Applegate, and Musashi.
 
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My copy of Levine's Guide is out of camera range.

Hatchet (Gary Paulsen), My Side of The Mountain (Jean Craighead George), Monkey Wrench Gang (Ed Abbey, Hayduke's "warlike" Buck Special), (pre- Tracker) Tom Brown's survival guides, Bradford Angier, Usagi Yojimbo comic books all made a big impression.

Edit- forgot about Cassidy's Complete Book of Knife Fighting, and Rex Applegate, and Musashi.
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Good ol' My side of the Mountain- loved that book in middle school. Perfect book for youth.
 
Stormbringer. The book is the same title as the sword wielded by the main character.

Then, we have Fred Saberhagen's Book of Swords series. My favorite in that is Townsaver, although Farslayer, Soulcutter, and Sightblinder are interesting concepts.
 
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