Saturday October 11th, 2003
Received today from Random House
LEGENDS II
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Jacket copy:
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 universe of the imagination that its author has made famous throughout the world. Whether set before or after events already recounted elsewhere, whether featuring beloved characters or
compelling new creations, these masterful short novels are both mesmerizing stand-alones perfect introductions to the work of their authors? And indispensable additions to the epics on which they are based. Beyond any doubt, Legends II is the fantasy event of the season.
On sale December 30.2003
Author bios:
Robert Silverberg is the winner of five Hugo and five Nebula awards for his novels and short fiction.
His work began appearing during the 1950s; he has received high acclaim for, among many others, such novels as Lord Valentine's Castle (the first in the Majipoor series), Tower of Glass, Dying Inside, and Nightwings.
ROBIN HOBB
returns to the Realm of the Elderlings with Homecoming, a powerful tale in which exiles sent to colonize the Cursed Shores find themselves sinking into an intoxicating but deadly dream . . . Or is it a memory
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
continues the adventures of Dunk, a young hedge knight,
and his unusual squire, Egg, in The Sworn Sword, set a generation before the events in
A Song of Ice and Fire.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
tells a tale of Alvin Maker and the mighty Mississippi, featuring
a couple of neer-do-wells named Jim Bowie and Abe Lincoln, in The Yazoo Queen.
DIANE GABALDON
turns to an important character from her Outlander saga Lord John Grey in Lord John and the Succubus,
a supernatural thriller set in the early days of the Seven Years War.
ROBERT SILVERBERG
spins an enthralling tale of Majipoors early history and remote future as seen through the eyes of a dilettantish poet who discovers an unexpected destiny in; The Book of Changes.
TAD WILLIAMS
explores the strange afterlife of Orlando Gardiner, from his Otherland saga, in; The Happiest Dead Boy in the World.
ANNE McCAFFREY
shines a light into the most mysterious and wondrous
of all places on Pern in the heart warming
Beyond Between.
RAYMOND E. FEIST
turns from the great battles of the Riftwar to the story of one soldier, a young man about to embark on the ride of his life, in ;The Messenger.
ELIZABETH HAYDON
tells of the destruction of Serendair and the fate of its last defenders in; Threshold, set at the end of the Third Age of her Symphony of Ages series.
NEIL GAIMAN
gives us a glimpse into what befalls the man called Shadow after the events of his Hugo Award winning novel American Gods
in
The Monarch of the Glen.
TERRY BROOKS
adds an exciting epilogue to The Wishsong ofShannara
in
Indomitable,
the tale of Jair Ohmsford s desperate quest tocomplete
the destruction of the evil Ildatch . . . Armed only with the magic of illusion.
