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Post by chakarum on Sept 4, 2008 21:46:06 GMT -6
Epic fantasy, at its best. After many revisions, the classic Dragonlance Chronicles and Dragonlance Legends trilogies are probably the best known "Dungeons and Dragons" books of all time. Probably third in line for the best fantasy series of all time (following Tolkein's LotR/Hobbit, and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time).
I re-read the Chronicles in the limited edition, leather-bound collector's set. All of the original chapter heading artwork was recreated for this edition, and it includes the notes that Margaret Wies and Track Hickman made when going throug the "Annotated" version of the book. Plus, thin gold-leaf pages in a leather book, with a built-in bookmark, are pretty cool. Probably the only book I ever wanted to take to a convention to have signed.
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Post by Tzalaran on Sept 5, 2008 12:09:58 GMT -6
Great Series, but their 'Death Gate cycle' is my favorite series by them. they are far and away the most famous Authors for D&D themed novels, and i can' t think of a bad novel that they have written. The shanarra series would have to be right up there, so i'd say they have two of the top 5 all time series for sure. i'd love to see that collectors set sometime... oh, and Welcome to the Forums chakarum.  |
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Post by chakarum on Dec 20, 2008 17:48:50 GMT -6
I'd probably have to give the "most famous d&d author" title to R.A. Salvatore, for his Drizzt novels.
The only book I didn't care of from Weis & Hickman was Dragons of Summer Flame. Half of the book was "hey, we're not going to write this series any more, so lets kill everyone who matters and make the gods go away again so noone else will want to write it either!". At least, that was the impression I got when I first read it.
I've actually been reading the Young Reader books, Dragonlance: The New Adventures, from Wizard's Mirrorstone imprint. For YA books, they are pretty good; they remind me of the Harry Potter books in a lot of places. And they stun them off into the "Practical Guides", with A Practical Guide to Dragons and A Practical Guide to Dragon Riding, and their Dragon Codex series being focused on Dragonlance characters from the YA novels.
I'm looking forward to the last Weis & Hickman book for Dragonlance too. They are publishing Dragons of the Hourglass Mage, about Raistlin and Cyan Bloodbane between Winter's Night and Spring Dawning. It should be out sometime in 2009. As long as it and A Memory of Light don't get published the same week, I should be set. lol
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Post by Tzalaran on Dec 22, 2008 9:24:10 GMT -6
oh, come on...
A Memory of Light should just be a quick one to two hour read.... ;D
Although Salvatore does deserve mention for the Dark Elf series, i think that the breadth of Weis and Hickmans novels earns them the title... i mean they created Dragonlance, darksword setting, the death gate cycle worlds, plus Weis' Star of the Guardians galactic fantasy setting. imo, that is much more significant than the drizzit books and cleric quintet... he didn't even make the world there...
haven't read Summer flame or any of the new DL books... the young reader books might be a good thing for my kids... i'll have to look into them...
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