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| Author | MacHale |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Young Adult, Fantasy, Science fiction novels |
| Publisher | Aladdin Paperbacks |
| Published | 2002-2009 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
The Pendragon Adventure is a young adult series of science fiction/fantasy novels by D. J. MacHale. They follow the chronicles of Bobby Pendragon, a teenager who discovers that he, as well as his two best friends, Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde, must prevent the destruction of the universe.
The series has ten books: The Merchant of Death, The Lost City of Faar, The Never War, The Reality Bug , Black Water, The Rivers of Zadaa, The Quillan Games, The Pilgrims of Rayne, Raven Rise, and The Soldiers of Halla. Bobby Pendragon recounts the events of his adventure in journals sent to his loyal friends and a third-person narrative is used to tell the stories of other characters. Each book of the series repeatedly alternates between the two narrative techniques.
The first five books in the series, The Merchant of Death (2002), The Lost City of Faar (2003), The Never War (2003), The Reality Bug (2003), and Black Water (2004) were originally published in paperback by Aladdin Paperbacks. The remaining five books, The Rivers of Zadaa (2005), The Quillian Games (2006), The Pilgrims of Rayne (2007), Raven Rise (2008), and The Soldiers of Halla (2009) were all originally published in hardback by Simon and Schuster. As of 2011, all books have been released in both formats.
On his official site, MacHale stated that he had finished the first draft of the last book, and said it would be a "killer finale." It was released on May 12, 2009. He also announced that the first graphic novel based on the Pendragon series would be released around the time of the ninth book, and that a short series of books meant to be companions to the series will be released, with the release of the first companion book scheduled for before the release of book ten. This short series has since been released as a trilogy, written by other authors, called Pendragon: Before the War.
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Robert "Bobby" Pendragon, an everyday athletic junior high school student from Stony Brook, Connecticut discovers that he is a Traveler: someone who is able to use mystical flumes to journey among ten distinct spacetime realities, called "territories." His Uncle Press, the lead Traveler, tells him that they have a crucial mission: to stop the efforts of the shapeshifting demon Saint Dane, a supporter of the darker side of human nature who believes that everything there is or was, collectively called Halla, must be destroyed so that he may rebuild it, according to his own designs. As each territory reaches a critical turning point, Saint Dane arrives, hoping to lead its people toward self-destruction. Bobby travels to the ten territories to thwart Saint Dane's plans, sending journals to his home (Second Earth) to be received by his best friends Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde, who become sometimes involved with the action and are deemed Bobby's "acolytes." There is one Traveler from each territory and Bobby soon realizes that his role is to replace his uncle as the lead Traveler, pursuing Saint Dane across Halla, and helping to guide the territories back toward stability with the assistance of the other Travelers, their acolytes, and further allies. The turning points of the territories, in order, occur on Denduron, Cloral, First Earth, Veelox, Eelong, Zadaa, Quillan, Ibara, Second Earth, and Third Earth. Not only does Bobby cainst the forces of Saint Dane, but he also learns the skills of martial arts and how to respect the diverse peoples he encounters, which wildly differ in their social structures, technologies, philosophies, traditions, and other cultural aspects. He also has to adapt to each territory's environments to get to Saint Dane. As the saga progresses, Bobby begins to learn the nature of what it really means to be a Traveler, that Saint Dane's ultimate goal includes a mysterious event called "the Convergence," and how different he actually is from a normal American teenager. By the ninth book, Bobby successfully prevents the destruction of six territories, but on Second Earth, Veelox, and Quillan the Travelers fail, allowing Saint Dane to claim victory. Even worse, by taking over Second Earth, Saint Dane manages to reverse all previous Traveler victories, founding an elitist, genocidal cult called Ravinia that marches its robot army of humanoid soldiers freely throughout the territories. In the last book, Bobby and the Travelers learn that they are not actually humans, but rather, spirits created by Solara, the source of all accumulated human knowledge. Reuniting one last time, they manage to defeat Saint Dane in a final battle on Third Earth, thus reviving Halla and beginning its process toward recovery.
This is a list of all ten of the territories where all of the books are set. Also listed is the names of the Travelers from each territory and their acolytes.
Although all of the territories were considered "won" at the end of Soldiers of Halla, this is a list of the current status of the territories in the battle for Halla, as of Raven Rise. An * indicates a reversal of fortune in the last two novels (that is, that the territory in question experienced two turning points, the first of which was a Traveler victory and the second of which was a loss).
Ravinia is the group of superiors that Saint Dane formed. The purpose of Ravinia was to give the "chosen" an advantageous life. These "chosen" were the more advanced people. Some examples include the Rokador on Zadaa and the Klees on Eelong. In the end, as mentioned, all the territories are said to be brought back to the natural and correct course. Ravinia failed because the Ravinians realized that Saint Dane really was pure evil and they rebelled against him.
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