Legends II (book)
Contents
Table:
Author

Short story title

World

Republished in

Robin Hobb

"Homecoming"

The Realm of the Elderlings

Legends II: Shadow, Gods, and Demons

George R. R. Martin

The Sworn Sword (novella)

A Song of Ice and Fire

Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King

Orson Scott Card

"The Yazoo Queen"

The Tales of Alvin Maker

Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King

Diana Gabaldon

Lord John and the Succubus (novella)[2]

Outlander

Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King

Robert Silverberg

"The Book of Changes"

Majipoor

Legends II: Shadow, Gods, and Demons

Tad Williams

"The Happiest Dead Boy in the World"

Otherland

Legends II: Shadow, Gods, and Demons

Anne McCaffrey

"Beyond Between"

Dragonriders of Pern

Legends II: Shadow, Gods, and Demons

Raymond E. Feist

"The Messenger"

The Riftwar Saga

Legends II: Shadow, Gods, and Demons

Elizabeth Haydon

"Threshold"

Symphony of Ages

Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King

Neil Gaiman

"The Monarch of the Glen"

American Gods

Legends II: Shadow, Gods, and Demons

Terry Brooks

"Indomitable"

Shannara

Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King

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Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden ( born March 5 , 1952 ) , better known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm , is an American writer . She has written five series set in the Realm of the Elderlings , which started in 1995 with the publication of Assassin 's Apprentice and ended with Assassin 's Fate in 2017 . Her books have sold over a million copies .
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden ( born March 5 , 1952 ) , better known by her pen names Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm , is an American writer . She has written five series set in the Realm of the Elderlings , which started in 1995 with the publication of Assassin 's Apprentice and ended with Assassin 's Fate in 2017 . Her books have sold over a million copies .
George Raymond Richard Martin ( born George Raymond Martin ; September 20 , 1948 ) , also known as GRRM , is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy , horror , and science fiction genres , screenwriter , and television producer . He wrote the series of epic fantasy novels , A Song of Ice and Fire , which was adapted into the HBO series Game of Thrones ( 2011-2019 ) . In 2005 , Lev Grossman of Time called Martin the American Tolkien , and in 2011 , he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world .
Tales of Dunk and Egg is a series of fantasy novellas by George R. R. Martin , set in the world of his A Song of Ice and Fire novels . They follow the adventures of Dunk ( the future Lord Commander of the Kingsguard , Ser Duncan the Tall ) and Egg ( the future king Aegon V Targaryen ) , some 90 years before the events of the novels . Three novellas have been published - The Hedge Knight ( 1998 ) , The Sworn Sword ( 2003 ) , and The Mystery Knight ( 2010 ) - and Martin has stated his intention to continue the series . A collection of the existing three novellas , with illustrations by Gary Gianni , was published as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on October 6 , 2015 .
A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin . He began the first volume of the series , A Game of Thrones , in 1991 , and it was published in 1996 . Martin , who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy , has published five out of a planned seven volumes . The fifth and most recent volume of the series , A Dance with Dragons , was published in 2011 and took Martin six years to write . He is currently writing the sixth novel , The Winds of Winter . A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos . The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of a range of characters growing from nine in the first novel , to 31 characters by the fifth novel . Three main stories interweave : a dynastic war among several families for control of Westeros , the rising threat of the supernatural Others in northernmost Westeros , and the ambition of Daenerys Targaryen , the deposed king 's exiled daughter , to assume the Iron Throne . Martin 's inspirations included the Wars of the Roses and the French historical novels The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon . A Song of Ice and Fire received praise for its diverse portrayal of women and religion , as well as its realism . An assortment of disparate and subjective points of view confronts the reader , and the success or survival of point-of-view characters is never assured . Within the often morally ambiguous world of A Song of Ice and Fire , questions concerning loyalty , pride , human sexuality , piety , and the morality of violence frequently arise .
Orson Scott Card ( born August 24 , 1951 ) is an American novelist , critic , public speaker , essayist , and columnist . He writes in several genres but is known best for his science fiction . His novel Ender 's Game ( 1985 ) and its sequel , Speaker for the Dead ( 1986 ) , both won Hugo and Nebula Awards , making Card the first author to win the two top American prizes in science fiction literature in consecutive years . A feature film adaptation of Ender 's Game , which Card co-produced , was released in 2013 . Card is also the author of the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker ( 1987-2003 ) . Card is also a professor of English at Southern Virginia University , has written two books on creative writing , hosts writing boot camps and workshops , and serves as a judge in the Writers of the Future contest . A great-great-grandson of Brigham Young , he is a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) . In addition to producing a large body of fiction , he has also offered political , religious , and social commentary in his columns and other writing . This commentary , especially his long-term opposition to the legalization of homosexual marriage , has provoked criticism from the public and his colleagues , and in 2013 , provoked a boycott of the film Ender 's Game .
The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of six alternate history fantasy novels written by American novelist Orson Scott Card , published from 1987 to 2003 ( with one more planned ) , that explore the experiences of a young man , Alvin Miller , who realizes he has incredible powers for creating and shaping things around him .
Diana J. Gabaldon ( /ˈɡæbəldoʊn/ ; born January 11 , 1952 ) is an American author , known for the Outlander series of novels . Her books merge multiple genres , featuring elements of historical fiction , romance , mystery , adventure and science fiction/fantasy . A television adaptation of the Outlander novels premiered on Starz in 2014 .
The Lord John series is a sequence of historical mystery novels and shorter works written by Diana Gabaldon that center on Lord John Grey , a recurring secondary character in the author 's Outlander series . Secretly homosexual in a time when that particular predilection could get one hanged , the character has been called one of the most complex and interesting of the hundreds of characters in Gabaldon 's Outlander novels . Starting with the 1998 novella Lord John and the Hellfire Club , the Lord John spin-off series currently consists of six novellas and three novels .
Outlander is a series of historical romance science fiction novels by American author Diana Gabaldon . Gabaldon began the first volume of the series , Outlander , in the late 1980s , and it was published in 1991 . She has published eight out of a planned ten volumes . The eight and most recent volume of the series , Written in My Own Heart 's Blood , was published in 2014 . Gabaldon is currently writing the ninth novel , Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone . The Outlander series focuses on 20th-century British nurse Claire Randall , who time travels to 18th-century Scotland and finds adventure and romance with the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser . The books have sold over 25 million copies worldwide as of August 2014 . Among the many derived works are two short stories , three novellas , a novel series featuring recurring secondary character Lord John Grey , a graphic novel , a musical , and a television series .
Robert Silverberg ( born January 15 , 1935 ) is an American author and editor , best known for writing science fiction . He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards , a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame , and a Grand Master of SF . He has attended every Hugo Awards ceremony since the inaugural event in 1953 .
The Majipoor series is a series of novels and stories by American writer Robert Silverberg , set on the planet Majipoor . The setting is a mixture of science fiction and fantasy elements .
Robert Paul Tad Williams ( born 14 March 1957 ) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer . He is the author of the multivolume Memory , Sorrow , and Thorn series , Otherland series , and Shadowmarch series as well as the standalone novels Tailchaser 's Song and The War of the Flowers . Most recently , Williams published The Bobby Dollar series . Cumulatively , over 17 million copies of Williams 's works have been sold . Williams 's work in comics includes a six issue mini-series for DC Comics called The Next . He also wrote Aquaman : Sword of Atlantis issue # 50 to # 57 . Other comic work includes Mirrorworld : Rain and The Helmet of Fate : Ibis the Invincible # 1 ( DC ) . Williams is collaborating on a series of young-adult books with his wife , Deborah Beale , called The Ordinary Farm Adventures . The first two books in the series are The Dragons of Ordinary Farm and The Secrets of Ordinary Farm .
Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams , published between 1996 and 2001 . The story is set on Earth near the end of the 21st century , probably between 2082 and 2089 , in a world where technology has advanced somewhat beyond the present . The most notable advancement is the widespread availability of full-immersion virtual reality installations , which allow people from all walks of life to access an online world , called simply the Net . Tad Williams weaves an intricate plot spanning four thick volumes , and creates a picture of a future society where virtual worlds are fully integrated into everyday life . His proposed ability to immerse oneself fully in a simulation gives him a great deal of artistic freedom , and the story winds through alternate interpretations of many classical literary works such as Through the Looking-Glass , The Odyssey and The Iliad , The War of the Worlds , and The Wizard of Oz , which are available as entertainment simulations within the series . Orlando Gardiner , one of the main characters in the books , spent most of his teenage years in this world 's equivalent to MMORPGs based upon J. R. R. Tolkien 's fiction . The overall series 's events also bear a strong resemblance to The Lord of the Rings .
Anne Inez McCaffrey ( 1 April 1926 - 21 November 2011 ) was an American-Irish writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series . She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction ( Best Novella , Weyr Search , 1968 ) and the first to win a Nebula Award ( Best Novella , Dragonrider , 1969 ) . Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list . In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master , an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction . She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006 . She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007 .
Dragonriders of Pern is a science fiction series written primarily by American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey , [ a ] who initiated it in 1967 . Beginning in 2003 , her middle child Todd McCaffrey has written Pern novels , both solo and jointly with Anne . The series ( as of July 2012 ) comprises 23 novels and several short stories . Most of the short fiction has been collected in two volumes or incorporated in one of the novels , so Dragonriders of Pern is sometimes identified with the 24 books . [ b ] Two of the novellas included in the first novel , Dragonflight , made McCaffrey the first woman to win a Hugo or Nebula Award .
Raymond E. Feist ( /faɪst/ ; born Raymond Elias Gonzales III ; December 21 , 1945 ) is an American fantasy fiction author who wrote The Riftwar Cycle , a series of novels and short stories . His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies .
The Riftwar Saga is a series of fantasy novels by American writer Raymond E. Feist , the first series in The Riftwar Cycle .
Elizabeth Haydon ( born 1965 ) is an American fantasy author . She has written two fantasy series set within the same universe , the fantasy/romance/whodunit fusion called The Symphony of Ages and the young adult series The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme . Her WebSite is located at ElizabethHaydon.net . An herbalist , harpist , and madrigal singer , Elizabeth Haydon also enjoys anthropology and folklore . She lives on the East Coast of the United States .
The Symphony of Ages is a series of fantasy-romance books by Elizabeth Haydon . The books tell the story of Rhapsody , a young singer of considerable talent who travels across time to a new land only to learn that it was foretold in a prophecy . Along with her two companions , Rhapsody fights to reunite a kingdom ravaged by war and long-standing prejudice .
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman ( /ˈɡeɪmən/ ; born Neil Richard Gaiman , 10 November 1960 ) is an English author of short fiction , novels , comic books , graphic novels , nonfiction , audio theatre , and films . His works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust , American Gods , Coraline , and The Graveyard Book . He has won numerous awards , including the Hugo , Nebula , and Bram Stoker awards , as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals . He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work , The Graveyard Book ( 2008 ) . In 2013 , The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards .
American Gods ( 2001 ) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman . The novel is a blend of Americana , fantasy , and various strands of ancient and modern mythology , all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow . The book was published in 2001 by Headline in the United Kingdom and by William Morrow in the United States . It gained a positive critical response and won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2002 . A special tenth anniversary edition , which includes the author 's preferred text and 12,000 additional words , was published in June 2011 by William Morrow . Two audio versions of the book were produced and published by Harper Audio : an unabridged version of the original published edition , read by George Guidall , released in 2001 ; a full cast audiobook version of the tenth anniversary edition , released in 2011 . In March 2017 , The Folio Society published a special collector 's edition of American Gods , with many corrections to the author 's preferred text version . In April 2017 , Starz began airing a television adaptation of the novel . Bryan Fuller and Michael Green served as showrunners , and Gaiman is an executive producer . Fuller and Green departed the show after the first season .
Terence Dean Brooks ( born January 8 , 1944 ) is an American writer of fantasy fiction . He writes mainly epic fantasy , and has also written two film novelizations . He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career , and has sold over 21 million copies of his books in print . He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers .
Indomitable is a fantasy short story by Terry Brooks in his Shannara series , and takes place two years after the events in The Wishsong of Shannara . It was first published in the 2003 collection Legends II .
Shannara /ˈʃænərə/ is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks , beginning with The Sword of Shannara in 1977 and continuing through The Skaar Invasion which was released in June 2018 ; there is also a prequel , First King of Shannara . The series blends magic and primitive technology and is set in the Four Lands , which are identified as Earth long after civilization was destroyed in a chemical and nuclear holocaust called the Great Wars . By the time of the prequel First King of Shannara , the world had reverted to a pre-industrial state and magic had re-emerged to supplement science .