Legends (book)

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Legends

Author	Various
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	1998
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	708 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-312-86787-5
Followed by	Legends II

Legends (1998) is a collection of "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.

1 Contents
2 Editions
3 Legends Vol. 3
4 See also

[edit] 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: "The New Spring" (The Wheel of Time)

[edit] 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.

First book ISBN 0-00-648393-3 - published on April 3, 2000(?). A special overseas edition (same details) was issued in 1999.
Second book ISBN 0-00-648394-1 - published on November 1, 1999.

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