Tad Williams Books In Order

Osten Ard Books In Publication Order

The Heart of What Was Lost (2017)

The Last King of Osten Ard Books In Publication Order

The Witchwood Crown (2017)
Empire of Grass (2018)
Brothers of the Wind (2021)

Bobby Dollar Books In Publication Order

The Dirty Streets of Heaven (2012)
Happy Hour in Hell (2013)
Sleeping Late on Judgement Day (2014)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlepig (2014)

Legends Books In Publication Order

Legends (1998)
Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King (1998)
Legends 3 (1999)

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Books In Publication Order

The Dragonbone Chair (1988)
Stone of Farewell (1990)
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (1993)

Ordinary Farm Adventures Books In Publication Order

The Dragons of Ordinary Farm (2009)
The Secrets of Ordinary Farm (2011)

Otherland Books In Publication Order

City of Golden Shadow (1996)
River of Blue Fire (1998)
Mountain of Black Glass (1999)
Sea of Silver Light (2001)

Shadowmarch Books In Publication Order

Shadowmarch (2004)
Shadowplay (2007)
Shadowrise (2010)
Shadowheart (2010)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

Tailchaser’s Song (1985)
Child of an Ancient City (1992)
Caliban’s Hour (1994)
Tad Williams’ Mirror World (1998)
The War of the Flowers (2003)
Diary of a Dragon (2012)
War of the Flowers (2019)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

Rite: Short Work (2006)
A Stark and Wormy Knight (2011)
The Very Best of Tad Williams (2014)

Oz Reimagined Books In Publication Order

Dorothy Dreams (By:Simon R. Green) (2013)
Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (By:Seanan McGuire) (2013)
The Boy Detective of Oz (2013)
A Meeting in Oz (By:Jeffrey Ford) (2013)
Off to See the Emperor (By:Orson Scott Card) (2013)
The Cobbler of Oz (By:Jonathan Maberry) (2013)
Lost Girls of Oz (By:Theodora Goss) (2013)
Blown Away (By:Jane Yolen) (2013)
A Tornado of Dorothys (By:Kat Howard) (2013)
The Veiled Shanghai (By:Ken Liu) (2013)
Dead Blue (By:David Farland) (2013)
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz (By:C.C. Finlay,Rae Carson) (2013)
Beyond the Naked Eye (By:Rachel Swirsky) (2013)
City So Bright (By:Dale Bailey) (2013)
One Flew Over the Rainbow (By:Robin Wasserman) (2013)

Unfettered Books In Publication Order

Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy (By:Jim Butcher,Brandon Sanderson,Charlaine Harris,Terry Brooks,Naomi Novik,David Farland,Rachel Caine,Seanan McGuire,Scott Sigler,,Bradley P. Beaulieu,Michael J. Sullivan,Django Wexler,,Shawn Speakman,MarkLawrence,Anthony Ryan,Sarah Beth Durst) (2016)
Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy (2019)

The Dying Earth Books In Publication Order

The Dying Earth / Mazirian the Magician (1950)
Cugel’s Saga / Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight (1966)
The Eyes of the Overworld / Cugel the Clever (1966)
A Quest for Simbilis (1974)
Morreion (1978)
The Seventeen Virgins (1979)
The Bagful of Dreams (1979)
Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)
The Laughing Magician (2006)
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance (2009)

Anthologies In Publication Order

Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian (2003)
The Wood Boy / The Burning Man (2005)
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance (2009)
Oz Reimagined (2013)

Osten Ard Book Covers

The Heart of What Was Lost
(2017)

The Last King of Osten Ard Book Covers

Bobby Dollar Book Covers

Legends Book Covers

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Book Covers

Ordinary Farm Adventures Book Covers

Otherland Book Covers

Shadowmarch Book Covers

Standalone Novels Book Covers

Short Story Collections Book Covers

Oz Reimagined Book Covers

Unfettered Book Covers

The Dying Earth Book Covers

Anthologies Book Covers

Tad Williams Books Overview

Legends

Here they are, the writers and the worlds that have satisfied millions of readers. Each has returned to their compelling special places to tell a new tale that enriches and illuminates their most famous creations, in a big, lavish volume enhanced with color and illustrative materials. Many of the short novels take place at an earlier moment in the history of their worlds, and cast new light on the famous epics. Others fit into the already established patterns of their worlds, but happen offstage from the main action. All are essential reading to the millions of fans of these writers and worlds. Stephen King tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in The Little Sisters of Eluria Terry Pratchett relates an amusing incident in Discworld, in The Sea and 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 Orson Scott Card spins a yarn of Alvin and his apprentice in Grinning Man Robert Silverberg returns to Majipoor and to Lord Valentine’s astonishing life in The Seventh Shrine Ursula K. Le Guin, in a sequel to her famous books of Earthsea, portrays a woman who wants to learn magic in Dragonfly Tad Williams tells an enthralling story of a great and haunted castle in an age before Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn in The Burning Man George R.R. Martin sets his adventure of The Hedge Knight a generation before his epic A Song of Ice and Fire Anne McCaffrey returns once again to her world of romance and adventure to tell of a Runner of Pern Raymond E. Feist’s Riftwar Saga is the setting of the revenge of The Wood Boy Robert Jordan, in the final section in the book, New Spring, tells of the meeting of Lan and Moiraine and of the beginning of their search for a baby just born who must lead in the final battle

Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King

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. 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 ne er 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 Majipoor’s 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 heartwarming 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 of Shannara in Indomitable, the tale of Jair Ohmsford s desperate quest to complete the destruction of the evil Ildatch…
armed only with the magic of illusion. From the Hardcover edition.

Legends 3

Legends, the landmark series of unabridged fantasy audio, continues with this latest collection of the genre’s most popular authors, spinning all new adventures set in the fantastic worlds they created in their best selling series. In this astonishing third volume, Terry Goodkind’s Debt of Bones, tells of the origin of the border between the warring realms in his The Sword of Truth series. Ursula K. Le Guin, in a sequel to her famous books of Earthsea, portrays a woman who wants to learn the divine secrets of magic in Dragonfly. And Tad Williams tells a dark and enthralling tale of a great and haunted castle in an age before Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn in The Burning Man. The Legends series spans four audio volumes and includes unabridged short novels from the greatest living writers in all fantasy. Look for other Legends volumes with stories from: Stephen King, Robert Silverberg, Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, George R.R. Martin and Raymond E. Feist. Terry Goodkind’s first novel, Wizard’s First Rule, established him immediately as a major voice on the epic fantasy scene. The Sword of Truth series includes Stone of Tears, Blood of the Fold, and most recently, Temple of the Winds. Ursula K. Le Guin’s award winning body of work features such acclaimed classics as The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, and The Dispossessed. Tad Williams’s Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy includes The Dragonbone Chair, Stone of Farewell, and To Green Angel Tower. Sam Tsoutsouvas performs Debt of Bones. Kathryn Walker performs Dragonfly. Frank Muller performs The Burning Man. Volume Four, coming in April 1999, includes Pern: Runner of Pern by Anne McCaffrey, performed by Kathryn Walker, The Riftwar Saga: The Wood Boy by George R.R. Martin, performed by Sam Tsoutsouvas and A Song of Ice and Fire: The Hedge Knight by Raymond E. Feist, performed by Frank Muller.

The Dragonbone Chair

From the bestselling author of Tailchaser’s Song comes the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy with all the magic, wonder, and magnificence of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. A young magician’s apprentice’s dreams of adventure come true when his world is torn apart by war and dark sorcery. Advertising in Locus.

Stone of Farewell

The second book in the trilogy that launched one of the most important fantasy writers of our time

To Green Angel Tower

As King Elias is drawn ever deeper into the nightmarish web of Sithi dark magic, the allies of Prince Josua rally their forces at the Stone of Farewell, in preparation for a final confrontation with the undead Sithi Storm King and his evil minions. By the author of The Dragonbone Chair.

To Green Angel Tower, Part 2

The Dragons of Ordinary Farm

Tyler and Lucinda have to spend summer vacation with their ancient uncle Gideon, a farmer. They think they’re in for six weeks of cows, sheep, horses, and pigs. But when they arrive in deserted Standard Valley, California, they discover that Ordinary Farm is, well, no ordinary farm. The bellowing in the barn comes not from a cow but from a dragon. The thundering herd in the valley? Unicorns. Uncle Gideon’s sprawling farmhouse never looks the same twice. Plus, there’s a flying monkey, a demon squirrel, and a barnload of unlikely farmhands with strange accents and even stranger powers. At first, the whole place seems like a crazy adventure. But when darker secrets begin to surface and Uncle Gideon and his fabulous creatures are threatened, Lucinda and Tyler have to pull together to take action. Will two ordinary kids be able to save the dragons, the farm and themselves? Expert storytellers Tad Williams and Deborah Beale take readers on an extraordinary adventure in their first book about Ordinary Farm.

City of Golden Shadow

ANYONE CAN GO THERE…
COMING BACK IS ANOTHER STORY. New York Times best selling author Tad Williams has become a force to be reckoned with in the publishing world, as is evident from the enormous popularity and critical acclaim for his spectacular Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. Now, DAW Books is proud to present Tad Williams’ groundbreaking new masterpiece, his most compelling work to date Otherland a bold new vision of an all too possible tomorrow. The first in a four book series, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow is a complex suspense novel of the near future, where virtual reality has expanded to encompass all aspects of society and national, physical, and mental boundaries are limited only by the virtue or darkness of the imagination, offering an entirely new level of freedom to people in all walks of life. But a blood chilling conspiracy involving the world’s most powerful individuals now threatens to shatter this world to its very core…
. Otherland is Tad Williams’ finest hour, an astonishing work of fiction that is truly destined to become a classic. Otherland is thrilling and original fiction in the New York Times best selling traditions of Stephen King, John Grisham, and William Gibson DAW Books is backing Otherland with a multimedia marketing campaign, the largest in its history! DAW Books has three more novels in the series under contract

River of Blue Fire

Return to Otherland in River of Blue Fire, the second novel of Tad Williams’ epic series. Otherland, a virtual realityuniverse where any fantasy can come true, is ruled by the unimaginable wealthy and ruthless power brokers known as The Grail Brotherhood. Constructed over two generations, consuming extraordinary amounts of money and lives, Otherland has begun to claim Earth’s most valuable resource: its children. Now, in River of Blue Fire, the group of unlikely heroes who have taken up the challenge of this perilous and seductive realm are brought together briefly, only to be thrown into different worlds, split by mistrust, and stalked at every turn by the serial killer Dread and the mysterious Nemesis…
. The DAW hardcover edition of Otherland has over 120,000 copies in print River of Blue Fire: Otherland Vol. 2 is the secondnovel of an exciting new series that will appeal not onlyto a science fiction/fantasy audience, but also to readersof science fiction and mainstream best sellers To Green Angel Tower was a New York Times andLondon Times hardcover best seller Spectacular cover art by Michael Whelan

Mountain of Black Glass

Sea of Silver Light

This stunning finale to the gigantic Otherland tetralogy City of Golden Shadow, etc., a brilliant fusion of quest fantasy and technological SF, is sure to please Williams’s many fans. Otherland, a complete universe co existent with the real world, incorporates elements of the Arabian Nights, the Alice and Oz books, the Neanderthal Age, the Trojan War, rewritten Roman history Hannibal returns three centuries after his death to crush Rome, without elephants, as well as numerous nursery rhymes and fables. An enormous cast of courageous humans confronts monstrous insects, unimaginable dangers and all the appurtenances of fantastic adventure. At nearly 700 pages this is a mighty mouthful to swallow, but a well crafted if convoluted plot sustains interest through the lengthy climax, which explains the inexplicable.

Shadowmarch

Shadowmarch begins Tad Williams’ first epic fantasy trilogy since his best selling Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Rich with detail and exotic culture, and filled with a cast of characters both diverse and three dimensional, Shadowmarch is a true fantasy achievement, an epic of storytelling by a master of the genre.

Shadowplay

Now the family has been shattered. King Olin Eddon is a prisoner in a faraway land. Olin’s heir Kendrick is dead – slain by treachery and dark, bloody magic – and Kendrick’s younger brother and sister have barely escaped several attempts on their own lives. With their father and brother taken from them, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have done their best to hold the kingdom together. Old magics are stirring beneath the ancient castle and behind the Shadowline, and the machinations of gods, fairies, and mortals threaten to spread devastation across the entire world. Even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the astonishing truths at the heart of their own family and of Southmarch itself, they must still find a way to do the impossible: they must reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home and people from a multitude of powerful enemies – from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry gods themselves.

Shadowrise

As shadows threaten to consume the kingdom of Southmarch, Barrick Eddon, heir to March throne, battles his way across the sinister Shadowlands. He must journey through this dangerous, inhuman realm to fulfil a pact as this may be all that can prevent the atrocities of a full scale war with the Twilight people of Qul na Qar. Meanwhile, the assault upon Southmarch has truly begun. Yasammez, the formidable head of the Qar army, has ordered the attack, believing that the pact between humans and Qar has been broken. Unless Ferras Vansen, Captain of the Southmarch Royal Guard, can convince her otherwise, the humans are sure to meet the dark end that has been promised to them…

Shadowheart

Thousands of years ago the gods fought and fell in the deeps beneath what is now Southmarch Castle, then were banished into eternal sleep. Now at least one of them is stirring again, dreaming of vengeance against humankind. Southmarch haunts the dreams of men as well as gods. Royal twins Barrick and Briony Eddon, the heirs of Southmarch’s ruling family, are hurrying back home as well: Barrick now carries the heritage of the immortal Qar inside him, and Briony has a small army at her back and a fiery determination to recover her father’s throne and revenge herself on the usurpers. The cruel and powerful southern ruler known as the Autarch of Xis wants the power of the gods for his own, a power he can only gain if he conquers Southmarch. And nobody knows what the Qar want, only that the mysterious fairy – folk are prepared to die for it – or to kill every living thing in Southmarch Castle and in all the lands around. It will come to an apocalyptic conclusion on Midsummer Night, when the spirits of the haunted past and the desperate struggles of the present come together in one great final battle. Many will die. Many more will be transformed out of all recognition, and the world will be forever changed.

Tailchaser’s Song

Fifteen years ago, a young author surprised and enchanted readers with his first novel the story of Fritti Tailchaser, a courageous tom cat in a world of whiskery heroes and villains, of feline gods and strange, furless creatures called M’an. The book was Tailchaser’s Song, the author was Tad Williams. The legend was born.

Caliban’s Hour

Beautiful Miranda is compelled to listen to the beast Caliban’s dark tale of desires and wizardry in spite of his ugliness as he weaves a story of passion and longing and creates the magic of love. By the author of Tailchaser’s Song. Book available.

Tad Williams’ Mirror World

It is June of 1999 and a strange phenomenon has suddenly appeared throughout the world’s major cities: giant mirrors which split the cities in half. Dividing natural parkways and cutting buildings in two, these mirrors, are as dangerous as they are beautiful. For soon after it is discovered that people can step through them and enter foreign worlds, it becomes clear that a trip through the Earth’s Mirrors is a one way journey. The mirrors work in only one direction. What started out as a curious odyssey becomes a permanent exile. Yet despite the imminent threat of banishment, people still cross over the bridge of Mirrors some to find loved ones stranded on the other side, some to challenge new frontiers, and some to reverse the horrors of what is swarming through the Mirrors to challenge the course of civilization. For, back on Earth, huge predatory insects are pouring through the Mirrors, killing or carrying away anything living in their path. The Bugs, as they become known, are a deadly plague with which the world I forced to reckon. A plague which both challenges and fuels the Earth’s relationship with the Mirrors, as organizations such as the United Nations become involved, symbolizing the harmonious response of the world’s nations and many peoples. The story of the mirrors is revealed through the eyes of Dancer, hero of Mirror World. Thoughtful and brave, Dancer passionately explores the fantastic worlds of the unknown. As he travels through newly established territories such as the city states of Shades and Looking Glass and the downtrodden land of Darklea, we see that the mirrors have created not only an alien civilization but also a new world built upon a the future of hope, love, and a prism of dreams.

The War of the Flowers

Returning to the fantasy genre that made him a coast to coast best selling phenomenon, Tad Williams has written a new stand alone contemporary novel set in Northern California and also in the strange parallel world that coexists in the farthest reaches of the imagination. Theo Vilmos is a thirty year old lead singer in a not terribly successful rock band. Once, he had enormous, almost magical, charisma both onstage and off but now, life has taken its toll on Theo. Hitting an all time low, he seeks refuge in a islolated cabin in the woods and reads an odd memoir written by a dead relative who believed he had visited the magical world of Faerie. And before Theo can disregard the account as the writings of a madman, he, too, is drawn to a place beyond his wildest dreams…
a place filled with be, and has always been, his destiny.

War of the Flowers

Rite: Short Work

Though best known for his epic series, Tad Williams is also an accomplished practitioner of the short form. Rite: Short Work gives ample evidence of this, as it contains a knockout novella later expanded to novel length Child of an Ancient City ; riffs on the great fantasist Michael Moorcock The Author at the End of Time, Go Ask Elric , along with excursions into some of his most popular creations and beyond. At over 140,000 words, Rite is essential for every Tad Williams fan and fantasy aficianado. Each tale features a full page black and while illustration by Mark A. Nelson.

The Dying Earth / Mazirian the Magician

The stories included in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisdom and beauty, lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. We meet the melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. All are at home in Vance’s lyrically described fantastic landscapes like Embelyon where, The sky was a mesh of vast ripples and cross ripples and these refracted a thousand shafts of colored light, rays which in mid air wove wondrous laces, rainbow nets, in all the jewel hues…
. The dying Earth itself is otherworldly: A dark blue sky, an ancient sun…
. Nothing of Earth was raw or harsh the ground, the trees, the rock ledge protruding from the meadow; all these had been worked upon, smoothed, aged, mellowed. The light from the sun, though dim, was rich and invested every object of the land…
with a sense of lore and ancient recollection. Welcome. The Dying Earth and its sequels comprise one of the most powerful fantasy/science fiction concepts in the history of the genre. They are packed with adventure but also with ideas, and the vision of uncounted human civilizations stacked one atop another like layers in a phyllo pastry thrills even as it induces a sense of awe at…
the fragility and transience of all things, the nobility of humanity s struggle against the certainty of an entropic resolution. Dean Koontz, author of the Odd Thomas novels. He gives you glimpses of entire worlds with just perfectly turned language. If he d been born south of the border, he d be up for a Nobel Prize. Dan Simmons author of The Hyperion Cantos.

Cugel’s Saga / Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight

‘Vance sees himself in the tradition of popular fantasy writers, but his classic writing style is also comparagle to Homer’s Odyssey, and Cervante’s Don Quixote. Though the Cugel tales may lack the scope and pathos of the greatest adventure yarns, in the twenty-first century, they may be as close as one gets to the celebration of epic human perseverance.’–editor, Brilliance Audio Cugel’s Saga, published 17 years after Eyes of the Overworld, is the second novel that features the scoundrel and trickster, Cugel. Again, Cugel tests wits with Iucounu and acquires rudimentary powers himself. ‘Cugel the Clever [is a rogue so venal and unscrupulous that that he makes Harry Flashman look like Dudley Do-Right. How could you not love a guy like that?…
. Judging from the number of times that Cugel has come back…
you can’t keep a bad man down.’ -George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire. ‘Cugel the Clever [is a liar and thief in a doomed world of liars and thieves…
. Probably the least attractive hero it would be possible to find, struggling through a universe like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, a hero only in that nearly everybody else he encounters in that universe is on the make too, and yet the Cugel stories are howlingly funny.’ -Kage Baker, author of Empress of Mars.

The Eyes of the Overworld / Cugel the Clever

The Eyes of the Overworld is the first of Vance’s picaresque novels about the scoundrel Cugel. Here he is sent by a magician he has wronged to a distant unknown country to retrieve magical lenses that reveal the Overworld. Conniving to steal the lenses, he escapes and, goaded by a homesick monster magically attached to his liver, starts to find his way home to Almery. The journey takes him across trackless mountains, wastelands, and seas. Vance s career began when he was in the merchant marine and continued through extended stays in exotic cities. Through cunning and dumb luck, the relentless Cugel survives one catastrophe after another, fighting off bandits, ghosts, and ghouls stealing, lying, and cheating without insight or remorse leaving only wreckage behind. Betrayed and betraying, he joins a cult group on a pilgrimage, crosses the Silver Desert as his comrades die one by one and, escaping the Rat People, obtains a spell that returns him home. There, thanks to incompetence and arrogance he misspeaks the words of a purloined spell and transports himself back to the same dismal place he began his journey.

Rhialto the Marvellous

Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by ensqualming or feminizing the magicians. This triggers a tremendous struggle for power and the other mages turn against Rhialto. Hoping to reestablish his rightful place, Rhialto travels to other aeons to restore the missing Perciplex which projects the Mostrament, the constitution of the association. In his final adventure, Rhialto must, ultimately, travel to the very ends of time and space to confront an old adversary whom he had wronged and must commit further misdeeds to restore order. Out of this welter of exotic politics, values systems, personal eccentricity, and magic, the figure of Rhialto slowly comes into focus and takes on dimension. He is a vain, apparently superficial man, not ashamed to demonstrate his melancholy to enhance his reputation. But he is courteous, patient, and subtle, even kind. He is self aware and introspective as Cugel never could be the wisest and most sympathetic of all of Vance’s wizards.

Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance

Thank You, Mr. Vance, by Dean Koontz. 2009 by Dean Koontz. Preface, by Jack Vance. 2009 by Jack Vance. The True Vintage of Erzuine Thale, by Robert Silverberg. 2009 by Agberg, Ltd. Grolion of Almery, by Matthew Hughes. 2009 by Matt Hughes Company Ltd. The Copsy Door, by Terry Dowling. 2009 by Terry Dowling. Caulk the Witch Chaser, by Liz Williams. 2009 by Liz Williams. Inescapable, by Mike Resnick. 2009 by Mike Resnick. Abrizonde, by Walter Jon Williams. 2009 by Walter Jon Williams. The Traditions of Karzh, by Paula Volsky. 2009 by Paula Volsky. The Final Quest of the Wizard Sarnod, by Jeff VanderMeer. 2009 by Jeff VanderMeer. The Green Bird, by Kage Baker. 2009 by Kage Baker. The Last Golden Thread, by Phyllis Eisenstein. 2009 by Phyllis Eisenstein. An Incident in Uskvesh, by Elizabeth Moon. 2009 by Elizabeth Moon. Sylgarmo’s Proclamation, by Lucius Shepard. 2009 by Lucius Shepard. The Lamentably Comical Tragedy or the Laughably Tragic Comedy of Lival Laqavee, by Tad Williams. 2009 by Tad Williams. Guyal the Curator, by John C. Wright. 2009 by John C. Wright. The Good Magician, by Glen Cook. 2009 by Glen Cook. The Return of the Fire Witch, by Elizabeth Hand. 2009 by Elizabeth Hand. The Collegeum of Mauge, by Byron Tetrick. 2009 by Byron Tetrick. Evillo the Uncunning, by Tanith Lee. 2009 by Tanith Lee. The Guiding Nose of Ulf nt Bander z, by Dan Simmons. 2009 by Dan Simmons. Frogskin Cap, by Howard Waldrop. 2009 by Howard Waldrop. A Night at the Tarn House, by George R. R. Martin. 2009 by George R. R. Martin. An Invocation of Incuriosity, by Neil Gaiman. 2009 by Neil Gaiman.

Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian

Janis Ian has inspired fans for years with her lyrical and evocative music. Now, this popular music legend has invited her favorite science fiction and fantasy writers to interpret her songs using their own unique voices. The result is the most unusual and exciting collaboration in the worlds of both science fiction fantasy and music.

The Wood Boy / The Burning Man

The Wood Boy is an adaptation of the short story by fantasy master Raymond E. Feist that first appeared in the Legends anthology edited by Robert Silverberg and offers a unique side story to the events depicted in his beloved book, Magician. The Wood Boy is an exciting story that offers readers an excellent introduction to Feist’s Riftwar Saga. The Burning Man was written by world renowned science fiction and fantasy author Tad Williams Otherland and originally appeared as a short story in the anthology Legends as well. A ghostly coming of age tale rendered in a beautiful, ethereal style by popular comic book artist Brett Booth Thundercats: Dogs of War, The Burning Man is an exciting and thought provoking story about life and death, love and fear, and innocence and betrayal.