The Cataclysm
by Margaret Weis (Editor), Tracy Hickman (Editor)
Dragonlance: Tales II (2), Dragonlance: Tales (5), Dragonlance - chronological {shared universe} (Anthologies — (Tales II anthology) 1 AC)
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Stories by Richard A. Knaak and others chronicle a fiery catastrophe that plunges Krynn into centuries of chaos.Tags
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Neskit The first of the Tales novels and the first batch of Short Stories based on the Dragonlance world.
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An interesting premise that deals with the events following the catechism. This looks at how various different creatures and factions deal with the aftermath of the God’s wrath. As with all short stories there’s some very good material here particularly from Margaret Vice and Tracy Hickman, but there’s also some real howlers. Useful but not essential for understanding the world of Dragonlance
Even for genre fiction, a lot of this is pretty bad. Looking through it these days, it's difficult to understand why, exactly, I thought that this was a great fantasy world.
And so the fifth volume of the Tales series is read out. One more to go. It took me longer than expected and desired. Like the others, however, there are good and not good stories in it, making the novel on a whole not super, but average. Then again, it concerns seperate tales of low importance in the storyline of Dragonlance and Krynn.
Not good (enough) for me:
- The Word And The Silence
- Seekers
- Ogre Unaware
- The Voyage Of The Sunchaser
Good, but never super:
- Mark Of The Flame, Mark Of The Word
- The Bargain Driver
- No Gods, No Heroes
- Into Shadow, Into Light
- The Cobbler's Son
- The High Priest Of Halcyon
- True Knight
Not good (enough) for me:
- The Word And The Silence
- Seekers
- Ogre Unaware
- The Voyage Of The Sunchaser
Good, but never super:
- Mark Of The Flame, Mark Of The Word
- The Bargain Driver
- No Gods, No Heroes
- Into Shadow, Into Light
- The Cobbler's Son
- The High Priest Of Halcyon
- True Knight
I don't remember much about this book - only read a few of the stories.
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Margaret Weis was born on March 16, 1948 in Independence, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri in 1970. She worked for Herald Publishing House, starting as a proofreader and leaving as the editorial director of their trade press division. In 1983, she went to work for TSR, Inc., the company responsible for numerous role-playing show more games including Dungeons and Dragons. At TSR, she was part of the design team responsible for the creation of the DragonLance saga, which lead to the DragonLance fantasy series of books. She collaborated with Tracy Hickman to write many of the books. She is also the author of the Star of the Guardian series, the Death Gate Cycle, and the Darksword Trilogy. In addition to writing, she is the owner and president of Mag Force 7, which produces collectible trading card games. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Tracy Hickman was born on November 26, 1955 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He entered the Missionary Home in Salt Lake City in 1975. From there, he was sent to Hawaii for language training for his eventual trip to Singapore. He was stationed in Hawaii and taught at the Mission House while waiting for his visa to come in. He preached the Mormon way of show more life in Indonesia for a year and a half. He was honorably released in 1977, and held a series of odd jobs after returning to the states including glass worker, television assistant director, and drill press operator in a genealogy center. In 1981, he approached by TSR about buying two of his gaming modules. He was hired by the company instead and began working with Margaret Weis. They wrote the DragonLance Chronicles together as well as over 40 books. He wrote two solo novels Requiem of Stars and The Immortals. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Dragonlance: Tales II
3 works (2)
Dragonlance: Tales
6 works (5)
Dragonlance - chronological {shared universe}
182 works (Anthologies — (Tales II anthology) 1 AC)
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TSR (8347)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Cataclysm
- Original publication date
- 1992-07
- Important places
- Krynn
- First words
- The world was forged upon three pillars: good, evil, neutrality.
Introduction
On Solamnia's castles / ravens alight, / dark and unnumbered / like a year of deaths, / and dreamt on the battlements, / fixed and holy, / are the signs of the Order / Kingfisher and Rose—
The Word and the Silence... (show all)b>
It began when I was fourteen, the burning, in the winter that the fires raged on the peninsula.
Mark of the Flame, Mark of the Word
I'll give you the two bronze knives, the string of elven beads, and the silver drinking horn, but that is my final offer."
The Bargain Driver
Gylar Radilan, of Lader's Knoll, set his mother's hand back onto her chest, over the rumpled blanket.
Seekers
The road was blocked just over the crest of the hill.
No Gods, No Heroes
The knight stalked across the hellish landscape, sword in hand.
Into Shadow, Into Light
Through most of a day—from when the sun was high overhead until now, when the sun was gone behind the dagger-spire peaks of the Khalikist Mountains and night birds heralded the first stars glimpsed above—through those hou... (show all)rs and those miles he had trailed the puny ones, thinking they might lead him to others of their kind.
Ogre Unaware
The Authentic Field Reports of Walnut Arskin / To Astinus of Palanthas, / As Set Down by Me, Walnut, / Foster Son of Jeraim Arskin, / Famed Amanuensis, Scribe of Astinus, / and Licensed Cobbler / (Open All Week Long) / Newsho... (show all)re-Near-Gwynned, North Island, Ergoth
The Cobbler's Son
A dense red haze surrounded the sun in a hot, silent sky.
The Voyage of the Sunchaser
From the Continuing Research of Foryth Teel, Chief Scribe Assisting Astinus, Eternal Lorekeeper of Krynn.
The High Priest of Halcyon
Nikol and Brother Michael left the Lost Citadel and traveled the forest, now bereft of its enchantment, with the dazed and bewildered expressions of those who have undergone some awful, wondrous experience and who do not, on ... (show all)reflection, believe in it.
True Knight
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.08762 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Science fiction
- LCC
- PS648 .F3 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
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