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Legends, Volume 1

Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy

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"A dream team . . . Legends is the rarest of the rare—an entire collection of original short novels by top fantasy writers." —USA Today
Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, these stories are exceptionally well written and universally well told.
Features short stories set in the worlds of . . .
  • Stephen King's The Dark Tower
  • Terry Pratchett's Discworld
  • Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth
  • Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker
  • Robert Silverberg's Majipoor
  • Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea
  • Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
  • George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
  • Anne McCaffrey's Pern
  • Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga
  • Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time

  • "There's enough color, vitality and bravura displays of mythmaking in this rich sampler to sate faithful fans and nurture new readers on the stuff of legends still being created." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
    "What is so noteworthy about this collection is the fact that all the selections are first rate." —Booklist
    "An enjoyable sampler of the best high fantasy available today." —San Francisco Chronicle
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      • Publisher's Weekly

        Starred review from August 3, 1998
        Microcosmic glimpses of broadly imagined worlds and their larger-than-life characters distinguish this hefty volume of heavyweight fantasy. Silverberg collects 11 previously unpublished short "novels" by genre celebrities, each a window on a sprawling saga that has shaped the way modern fantasy fiction is written and read. Stephen King weighs in with "The Little Sisters of Eluria," set early in the Dark Tower saga and deftly weaving threads of horror, quest fantasy and the western into a dangerous snare for his indefatigable gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Ursula K. Le Guin contributes "Dragonfly," a tale about a young woman who would be a wizard that offers a savvy dissection of the sexual politics that govern Le Guin's Earthsea empire. Neo-Arthurian fantasy gets its due in George R.R. Martin's "The Hedge Knight," a prequel to the Song of Ice and Fire series. Only a sliver of fantasy insinuates Silverberg's own "The Seventh Shrine," a Majipoor murder mystery that becomes a fascinating exploration of clashing cultures. Although most of the selections are sober sidebars to serious literary fantasy cycles, Terry Pratchett's "The Sea and Little Fishes" is a giddy Discworld romp that pits cantankerous witch Granny Weatherwax against her crone cronies, and Orson Scott Card's "Grinning Man" is corn-fed tall talk in which Alvin Maker outwits a crooked miller in the alternate America of Hatrick River. Some entries, among them Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar tale "The Wood Boy" and Anne McCaffrey's "Runner of Pern," shine only as light glosses on their authors' earlier achievements. Still, there's enough color, vitality and bravura displays of mythmaking in this rich sampler, which also includes tales by Terry Goodkind, Tad Williams and Robert Jordan, to sate faithful fans and nurture new readers on the stuff of legends still being created.

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