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[[File:InheritanceHB1.jpg|thumb|500px|The back and front covers of the UK hardcover edition of "The Inheritance" by [[Jackie Morris]].]]
[[Image:9780061561641.jpg|thumb|The US trade paperback cover of "The Inheritance and Other Stories"]]
[[Image:Anz paperback inheritance.jpg|thumb|The Australia/New Zealand trade paperback cover of "The Inheritance"]][[Image:Inheritance by Robin Hobb Megan Lindholm Cover Art Only.jpg|thumb|Art for the special limited edition cover by [[Tom Kidd]].]] '''The Inheritance''' is a 2011 Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm anthology of ten short stories. It contains both previously published and completely new stories, and stories written under both of the author's pen names, [[Robin Hobb]] and [[Megan Lindholm]]. Each story is preceded by a foreword from the author. All three Robin Hobb stories in this book take place in the [[Realm of the Elderlings]].
The US title for the book is '''The Inheritance And Other Stories'''.
"''Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection with vampires and alien musicians, tramps and feral cats.''" <ref>http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/titles/9780007290277/the-inheritance-epub-edition-robin-hobb Harper Collins</ref>
==Table of Contents==
===Megan Lindholm stories===
* [[Finis]] (previously unpublished)
* [[Drum Machine]] (previously unpublished)
===Robin Hobb stories===
* [[The Inheritance]]
* [[Homecoming]]
* [[Cat's Meat]] (previously unpublished)
==Editions==
* UK hardcover edition by HarperVoyager the 31st of March 2011 with ISBN 9780007273775. Cover art by Jackie Morris.
==Blurbs and reviews==* The HarperCollins online blurb for Australia/New Zealand trade paperback edition by HarperVoyager the book says "''Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection 31st of March 2011 with vampires and alien musicians, tramps and feral catsISBN 9780007273799.''"* [[Cover art by Jackie Morris]] who has done the UK cover art and has read some or all of the manuscript mentioned it has "''wonderful Rainwilds stories in and quite a few cats''". * Another HarperColllins blurb states "''Travel from the Six Duchies, to Bingtown and on to undiscovered worlds in this anthology of novellas and stories woven from the imagination of internationally best-selling fantasy author, Robin Hobb.''"* The HarperCollins page for the book contains the following description about the new [[Realm of the Elderlings]] story [[Cat's Meat]]: ''"Pell is lazy, good for nothing, a bully. Her best friend Hilia knew it and so did her tom cat, Marmalade. But love is blind: Rosemary had Pell’s baby, renovated the cottage his grandfather left in his will, turned its land to good use; and then he left her for another woman. Now he’s back, and something must be done…"''
* US trade paperback edition by HarperVoyager the 3rd of May 2011 with ISBN 9780061561641. The title of this US edition is slightly different: ''The Inheritance and Other Stories''.
==Editions==* UK A hardcover edition by HarperVoyager 31st of March 2011 with ISBN 9780007273775. Cover art by Jackie Morris.* Australia/New Zealand trade paperback edition by HarperVoyager 31st of March 2011 with ISBN 9780007273799. Cover art by Jackie Morris.* US trade paperback edition by HarperVoyager 3rd of May 2011 with ISBN 9780061561641. The title of this US edition is slightly different: ''The Inheritance: And Other Stories''* An unabridged audio book edition read by [[Saskia Butler]] from HarperCollins Publishers 31st of March 2011. * A special limited 1000-copy edition of the ''Inheritance and Other Stories'' by Subterranean Press in autumn of 2011 with ISBN 9781596064386 with dust jacket and interior half-page black and white illustrations for each story by [[Tom Kidd]]. <ref>http://subterraneanpress.com/store/product_detail/inheritance Subterranean Press product details, including sample illustrations</ref> The publication date is stated as the 31st of October 2011 but in reality the book was released some time in 2012.** Deluxe Limited: 200 signed numbered (from 1-200) copies, leatherboundleather bound, with a different dust jacket and exclusive full-color endsheetsend sheets. Original price $125.00** Limited: 800 signed numbered (from 201-1000) copies, cloth bound copies, with a different dust jacket from the deluxe edition. Original price $45.00. * A UK paperback edition from Harper Voyager the 30th of April 2012 with ISBN 9780007446346. * A Kindle edition from Harper Voyager the 31st of March 2011 with ASIN: B004QGYHR6.* An unabridged audio book edition read by [[Saskia Butler]] from HarperCollins Publishers the 31st of March 2011. Length 11 hours 35 minutes. ===Covers===<gallery perrow="10">Image:Anz paperback inheritance.jpg|ANZ trade paperback (2011), UK paperback (2012)Image:The Inheritance and Other Stories.jpg|US ARCImage:Subterranean_theinheritance.jpg|US limited edition hardcover, deluxe Image:Subterranean_inheritance.jpg|US limited edition dust jackethardcover
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==Buy the Inheritance==
* amazon.co.uk http://amzn.to/adU3MG (UK hardback)==Affiliate links==* the Book Depository [http://www.bookdepository.co.ukcom/search?searchTerm=the+inheritance+robin+hobb&search=Find+book/9780007273775/?a_aid=theplentynet (UK hardback) and Find The Inheritance on bookdepository.com]* [http://wwwamzn.bookdepositoryto/adU3MG The Inheritance on amazon.co.uk/book/9780007273799/The-Inheritance/?a_aid=theplentynet (ANZ trade paperback)]* amazon.com [http://amzn.to/clzVxK (US trade paperback)The Inheritance and Other Stories on amazon.com]
==Links to referencesReferences==<references/>
==Links==* [http://robinhobb.com/2009/12/january-10-university-book-store-seatle/Announcement at the official site]* [http://drawingalineintime.blogspot.com/2010/05/short-and-achievable-list-of-hopeful.htmlJackie Morris blogs about the commission]* [http://www.theplenty.net/index.php?id=350#commentsUS publication date]* [http://twitter.com/_TheVoyager_/status/19245695834UK publication date]* [http://drawingalineintime.blogspot.com/2010/06/got-up-painted-went-to-bed.html* http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/40211/Jackie Morris blogs about painting the-inheritance-robin-hobb-9780007273775* http://www.harpercollinscatalogs.com/harper/738_1808_313739343731.htm* http://webnews.sff.net/read?cmd=read&group=sff.people.robin-hobb&artnum=52861cover (with photos)]
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