Tad Williams

Legends First Published in 1998. Synopsis "Robert Silverberg, one of the field's most distinguished editors and authors, has put together an incredible anthology that no fantasy fanatic will be able to live without. Legends includes new, never-before-published works by Stephen King, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tad Williams, and George R. R. Martin. Each story is set in its author's distinctive, unforgettable world. Tad Williams tells a dark and enthralling story of a great and haunted castle in the age before Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, in 'The Burning Man.' Orson Scott Card spins a yarn of Alvin and his apprentice from the Tales of Alvin Maker, in 'Grinning Man.' Stephen King tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of the Dark Tower, in 'The Little Sisters of Eluria.' Terry Pratchett relates an amusing incident in Discworld, of a magical contest and the witch Granny Weatherwax, in 'The Sea of Little Fishes.' Terry Goodkind tells of the origin of the Border between realms in the world of the Sword of Truth, in 'Debt of Bones.' Robert Silverberg returns to Majipoor and to Lord Valentine's adventure in an ancient tomb, in 'The Seventh Shrine.' Ursula K. Le Guin adds a sequel to her famous books of Earthsea, portraying a woman who wants to learn magic, in 'Dragonfly.' George R. R. Martin sets his piece a generation before his epic, A Song of Ice and Fire, in the adventure of 'The Hedge Knight.' Anne McCaffrey, the poet of Pern, returns once again to her world of romance and adventure in 'Runner of Pern.' Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga is the setting of the tale of 'The Wood Boy.' Robert Jordan, in 'New Spring,' tells of crucial events in the years leading up to the Wheel of Time, of the meeting of Lan and Moirane and the beginning of the search for the child who must grow to lead in the last battle." (Excerpt from bn.com) Top

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