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The Reign of Istar
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Richard A. Knaak, Michael Williams · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorChanging the World: All-New Tales of Valdemar
Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, Kate Paulk, Sarah A. Hoyt, Tanya Huff, Fiona Patton, Judith Tarr, Nancy Asire, Benjamin Ohlander, Denise McCune, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Elisabeth Waters, Kristin Schwengel, Brenda Cooper, Stephanie D. Shaver, Michael Z. Williamson · 343 pages
In March 1987, a young author from Oklahoma published her first novel, Arrows of the Queen. This modest book about a magical land called Vademar was the beginning of a fantasy masterpiece that would span decades and include more than two dozen titles. Now sixteen of today's hottest fantasy authors-including Tanya Huff, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Fiona Patton, and Judith Tarr-visit the world of Valdem
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin · 320 pages
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician who has lost his powers.
Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar
Mercedes Lackey
No True Way: All New Tales of Valdemar
Stephanie D. Shaver, Michele Lang, Fiona Patton, Dylan Birtolo, Cedric Johnson, Louisa Swann, Rosemary Edghill, Rebecca Fox, Dayle A. Dermatis, Brenda Cooper, Elizabeth A. Vaughan, Jennifer Brozek, Ron Collins, Kristin Schwengel, Diana L. Paxson, Elisabeth Waters
The Lost Stories
John Flanagan · 500 pages
Unconfirmed accounts of a group of Araluen warriors - tales of adventure, battle, and triumph over evil -- have spread for centuries throughout the known world. Most notable is a clan shrouded in mystery, phantom warriors known as the Rangers. Two names pass the lips of every storyteller: Halt, and his apprentice, Will. They and their comrades in arms are said to have traveled throughout the ki
Wings of Fire
Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, George R.R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Todd Lockwood, Michael Swanwick, Roger Zelazny, Diana Wynne Jones, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Moon, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Bear, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Tanith Lee, Barry N. Malzberg, S.P. Somtow, James P. Blaylock, Gordon R · 532 pages
Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most popular authors, including Peter Beagle, Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, Charles De Lint, Diana Wynne
After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien
Martin H. Greenberg · 448 pages
Epic: Legends of Fantasy
George R.R. Martin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robin Hobb, Tad Williams, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, Michael Moorcock, Melanie Rawn, Kate Elliott, Mary Robinette Kowal, N.K. Jemisin, Carrie Vaughn, Trudi Canavan, Juliet Marillier, Aliette de Bodard, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card · 608 pages
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Douglas A. Anderson · 432 pages
Legends II
Robert Silverberg · 408 pages
Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends, his acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is here. Legends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends II return to the special u
The Sandman: Endless Nights
Neil Gaiman · 160 pages
The Sandman: Book of Dreams (1996), edited by Ed Kramer and Neil Gaiman, is an anthology of short stories based on The Sandman comic book series.
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien · 414 pages
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.
The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall
Anne McCaffrey · 306 pages
Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of Pernese history as Anne McCaffrey brings to life events that shaped one of the most popular worlds in all of science fiction, in this first-ever Pern short-story collection. Generally the stories are about the relocation and reorganization of the southern colony in response to the "First Pass" of the "Red Star"—an erratic p
Thieves' World: First Blood
Lynn Abbey, Robert Lynn Asprin · 460 pages
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
Colin Greenland, John M. Ford, Lisa Goldstein, Brenda W. Clough, Barbara Hambly, Will Shetterly, George Alec Effinger, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Robert Rodi, Tad Williams, Lawrence Schimel, Mark Kreighbaum, Karen Haber, Delia Sherman, Nancy A. Collins, Gene Wolfe, Steven Brust, Susanna Clarke · 400 pages
*There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of story. Older than humankind itself, he inhabits -- along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless sisters and brothers -- the realm of human consciousness. His powers are myth and nightmare -- inspirations, pleasures, and punishments manifested be
The Chick is in the Mail
Esther M. Friesner · 317 pages
An anthology of short stories about female warriors. Friesner has edited several "Chicks" collections in the same vein, including _Chicks in Chainmail_, _Chicks and Chained Males_, and _Did You Say Chicks?_
Bordertown
Mark Alan Arnold, Emma Bull, Midori Snyder, Ellen Kushner · 256 pages
Fire
Robin McKinley, Peter Dickinson · 271 pages
Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire.In McKinley's "First Flight," a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her "Hellhound" stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson intr