Legends (book)

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Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy
Author(s)	Various
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	1998
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	708 pp
ISBN	0-312-86787-5
OCLC Number	183214571
Dewey Decimal	813/.0876608 21
LC Classification	PS648.F3 L44 1998
Followed by	Legends II

Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy (1998) is an anthology of 11 novellas (short novels) by a number of noteworthy fantasy authors, edited by Robert Silverberg. All the stories were original to the collection, and set in the authors' established fictional worlds. The collection has a sequel, Legends II, published in 2004.

Contents

• Stephen King: "The Little Sisters of Eluria" (The Dark Tower)
• Terry Goodkind: "Debt of Bones" (The Sword of Truth)
• Orson Scott Card: "Grinning Man" (The Tales of Alvin Maker)
• Robert Silverberg: "The Seventh Shrine" (Majipoor)
• Ursula K. Le Guin: "Dragonfly" (Earthsea)
• Raymond E. Feist: "The Wood Boy" (The Riftwar Saga)
• Terry Pratchett: "The Sea and Little Fishes" (Discworld)
• George R. R. Martin: "The Hedge Knight" (A Song of Ice and Fire)
• Tad Williams: "The Burning Man" (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn)
• Anne McCaffrey: "Runner of Pern" (Dragonriders of Pern)
• Robert Jordan: "New Spring" (The Wheel of Time)

Editions

• A hardback edition was published by Voyager on October 5, 1998 in the UK with ISBN 0-00-225666-5.
• A paperback edition was published by Voyager on June 7, 1999 in the UK with ISBN 0-00-225667-3.

A re-release was published by Voyager in which Legends was split into two halves, both titled Legends.

• Volume One ISBN 0-00-648394-1 - published on November 1, 1999.
• Volume Two ISBN 0-00-648393-3 - published on April 3, 2000. A special overseas edition (same details) was issued in 1999.

• The first book contains: "The Sea and Little Fishes", "The Hedge Knight", "The Burning Man", "Runner of Pern", "New Spring".
• The second book contains: "The Little Sisters of Eluria", "Debt of Bones", "Grinning Man", "The Seventh Shrine", "Dragonfly", "The Wood Boy".

Legends Vol. 3

In 1999 Tor Books decided to divide and re-release Legends in a three book series.

• Legends Vol. 1 (1999) ISBN 0-8125-6663-7 - "The Little Sisters of Eluria", "The Seventh Shrine", "Grinning Man", and "The Wood Boy"
• Legends Vol. 2 (1999) ISBN 0-8125-7523-7 - "Debt of Bones", "The Hedge Knight", and "Runner of Pern"
• Legends Vol. 3 (2000) ISBN 0-8125-6664-5 - "New Spring", "Dragonfly", "The Burning Man", and "The Sea and Little Fishes"

Legends Vol. 3 is not a new collection of stories but a part of book one.

See also

• Legends II

External links

• Legends publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Legends series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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