Download Legends II, Volume Three: New Short Novels by The Masters of Modern Fantasy (Unabridged Selections) AudioBook Free
Fantasy fans, rejoice! Seven years after writer and editor Robert Silverberg made publishing history with Legends, his acclaimed anthology of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, the long-awaited second volume is here now. Legends II accumulates where its illustrious predecessor left off. All the bestselling writers represented in Legends II go back to the special universe of the imagination that its author has made famous throughout the world. Whether set before or after events already recounted elsewhere, whether featuring beloved characters or compelling new creations, these masterful short novels are both mesmerizing stand-alones—perfect introductions to the task of these authors—and indispensable additions to the epics on which these are based. Beyond any doubt, Legends II is the fantasy event of the growing season.
ROBIN HOBB returns to the Realm of the Elderlings with “Homecoming,” a robust tale in which exiles sent to colonize the Cursed Shores find themselves sinking into an intoxicating but deadly dream . . . or could it be a memory?
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN continues the adventures of Dunk, a hedge knight, and his unusual squire, Egg, in “The Sworn Sword,” set a generation prior to the events in A Song of Ice and Fire.
ORSON SCOTT CARD tells an account of Alvin Maker and the mighty Mississippi, having a handful of ne’er-do-wells named Jim Bowie and Abe Lincoln, in “The Yazoo Queen.”
DIANE GABALDON turns to an important character from her Outlander saga—Lord John Grey—in “Lord John and the Succubus,” a supernatural thriller occur the first days of the Seven Years War.
ROBERT SILVERBERG spins an enthralling tale of Majipoor’s early history—and remote future—as seen through the eyes of your dilettantish poet who discovers an unexpected destiny in “The Book of Changes.”
TAD WILLIAMS explores the strange afterlife of Orlando Gardiner, from his Otherland saga, in “The Happiest Dead Boy in the World.”
ANNE McCAFFREY shines a light in to the most mysterious and wondrous of most places on Pern in the heartwarming “Beyond Between.”
RAYMOND E. FEIST turns from the fantastic battles of the Riftwar to the story of 1 soldier, a man going to embark on the ride of his life, in “The Messenger.”
ELIZABETH HAYDON tells of the destruction of Serendair and the fate of its last defenders in “Threshold,” set at the end of the 3rd Age of her Symphony of Ages series.
NEIL GAIMAN gives us a glimpse into what befalls the person called Shadow after the events of his Hugo Award–winning novel American Gods in “The Monarch of the Glen.”
TERRY BROOKS adds a thrilling epilogue to The Wishsong of Shannara in “Indomitable,” the tale of Jair Ohmsford’s desperate quest to complete the destruction of the evil Ildatch . . . armed only with the magic of illusion.
From the Hardcover edition.
