Sword of Destiny

Sword of Destiny (Polish: Miecz przeznaczenia) is the second book in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series in terms of internal chronology, although the original Polish edition was published in 1992, before The Last Wish (but after the Wiedźmin short story collection made obsolete by The Last Wish). Some of the individual short stories were first published in the Fantastyka magazine.

The book has been translated into English, Romanian, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Serbian, French, Finnish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovak and Swedish. The English translation was scheduled for publication in May 2015. The publisher of the English edition of the Witcher books decided to skip Miecz przeznaczenia and publish Blood of Elves (the first novel in the Witcher saga) directly after The Last Wish, even though the short stories in this collection take place earlier and introduce some of the characters that become major characters in the novels. There is a translated version of this book available at:

On 19 January 2015, it was announced that Gollancz had acquired the rights to the book, along with The Tower of the Swallow and Lady of the Lake, and would be publishing Sword of Destiny in May 2015 to coincide with the release of. The English edition was subsequently published by Gollancz on 21 May 2015.

Stories included

 * The Bounds of Reason (Granica możliwości)
 * A Shard of Ice (Okruch lodu)
 * Eternal Flame (Wieczny ogień)
 * A Little Sacrifice (Trochę poświęcenia)
 * The Sword of Destiny (Miecz przeznaczenia)
 * Something More (Coś więcej)

Translations

 * Flag bulgaria.png Bulgarian: Меч на съдбата, (ИнфоДар, 2008)
 * Flag czech.png Czech: Zaklínač II - Meč osudu, (Leonardo, 2000)
 * Flag germany.png German: Das Schwert der Vorsehung, (Heyne Verlag, 1998)
 * Flag uk.png Flag USA.png English: The Sword of Destiny, (UK – Gollancz, 2015)
 * Flag spain.png Spanish: La espada del destino, translated by Jose María Faraldo (Bibliópolis fantástica, 2003)
 * Flag france.png French: L'Épée de la Providence, Alexandre Dayet (Bragelonne, 2008)
 * Flag italy.png Italian: La spada del destino, (Nord, 2011)
 * Flag Lithuania.png Lithuanian: Likimo kalavijas, (Dagonas, Kowno 1997)
 * Flag hungary.png Hungarian: Vaják II - A végzet kardja, (PlayOn, 2012)
 * Flag netherlands.png Dutch: Het zwaard van het lot, (Dutch Media Uitgevers, 2012)
 * Flag finland.png Finnish: Kohtalon miekka, translated by Tapani Kärkkäinen (WSOY, 2011)
 * Flag Brazil.png Brazilian Portuguese: A Espada do Destino, translated by Thomasz Barcinski (WMF Martins Fontes, 2012)
 * Flag russia.png Russian: Меч Предназначения, translated by Yevgeny Vaysbrot (АСТ, 1996)
 * Flag serbia.png Serbian: Mač sudbine - Saga o vešcu 2, (IPS 2010)
 * Flag slovakia.png Slovak: Zaklínač II.: Meč osudu, (Plus, 2015)
 * Flag sweden.svg Swedish: Ödets svärd, (Coltso, 2011)
 * Flag China.png Simplified Chinese: 猎魔人系列·卷2:宿命之剑, translated by 赵琳/小龙 (重庆出版社, 2015)
 * Flag greece.png Greek : Το σπαθί του πεπρωμένου, (SELINI 2016, translated by Dimitris Houliarakis)
 * Flag turkey.png Turkish: Kader Kılıcı, translated by Regaip Minareci (Pegasus, 2017)

Audio versions
There are two audio versions of Miecz przeznaczenia available in Polish. Classic audiobook, lasting about 13 hours and read by Roch Siemianowski, was released by superNOWA (Polish publisher of Sapkowski’s works) in 1990s. In 2011, after huge success of audio play based on Sapkowski’s Narrenturm, Fonopolis and audioteka.pl released audio plays based on The Last Wish and Miecz przeznaczenia. Miecz przeznaczenia, lasting about 15 hours, was voiced by 49 actors, including Krzysztof Banaszyk (Vernon Roche in Assassins of Kings) as Geralt, Anna Dereszowska as Yennefer, Sławimir Pacek (minor characters in video games) as Dandelion, Joanna Pach (minor characters in video games) as Ciri, Wiktor Zborowski (famous Polish actor) as Istredd and Krzysztof Gosztyła as narrator. Samples from all short stories can be found on audioteka.pl’s site.

Book covers
Meč osudu - rok vydání 2000 Das Schwert der Vorsehung Το σπαθί του πεπρωμένου La Espada del Destino L'Epée de la Providence La Spada del Destino Likimo Kalavijas Miecz przeznaczenia pt-br:A Espada do Destino Меч Предназначения (книга) Ödets svärd Меч Призначення