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'Comparable to Tolkien at his best' WASHINGTON POST Returning
millions of readers to the Land and continuing the epic story of
the anti-hero fated to be its saviour, THE SECOND CHRONICLES OF
THOMAS COVENANT secured Stephen Donaldson's reputation as a master
of modern fantasy. Swept far to the north, Thomas Covenant and
Linden Avery must embark on another dangerous journey, never
knowing whether the magic they bear will be enough to reverse the
corruption wrought by Lord Foul. Together, they are drawn back to
the Land - to the fulfilment of prophecies, to war and loss, and to
a stunning final confrontation that will unleash powers far greater
than any this world has witnessed before.
'Comparable to Tolkien at his best' WASHINGTON POST Instantly
recognised as a modern fantasy classic, Stephen Donaldson's
uniquely imaginative and complex THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT,
THE UNBELIEVER became a bestselling literary phenomenon that
transformed the genre. Lying unconscious after an accident, writer
Thomas Covenant awakes in the Land - a strange, beautiful world
locked in constant conflict between good and evil. But Covenant,
too, has been transformed: weak, angry, and alone in our world, he
now holds powers beyond imagining and is greeted as a saviour. Can
this man truly become the hero the Land requires?
'Comparable to Tolkien at his best' WASHINGTON POST Returning
millions of readers to the Land and continuing the epic story of
the anti-hero fated to be its saviour, THE SECOND CHRONICLES OF
THOMAS COVENANT secured Stephen Donaldson's reputation as a master
of modern fantasy. Swept far to the north, Thomas Covenant and
Linden Avery must embark on another dangerous journey, never
knowing whether the magic they bear will be enough to reverse the
corruption wrought by Lord Foul. Together, they are drawn back to
the Land - to the fulfilment of prophecies, to war and loss, and to
a stunning final confrontation that will unleash powers far greater
than any this world has witnessed before.
Two kingdoms, ancient enemies, must stand alone against an
implacable invader in the masterful conclusion of the Great God's
War epic from the New York Times bestselling author of the
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. They are coming. The kingdoms of
Belleger and Amika had been fighting for generations. But then they
learned of a terrible threat moving through them to destroy the
Last Repository, an immense hidden library. To face this greater
enemy, King Bifalt of Belleger and Queen Estie of Amika allied
their lands and prepared for war. They are at the door. Now the
time of preparation is over. Black ships and sorcery test the
cannon that defend the Bay of Lights. Treachery and betrayal
threaten the kingdoms. The priests of the Great God Rile sow
dissent. And Estie rides for the Last Repository, desperate to
enlist the help of their Magisters-and to understand the nature of
her own magical gift. They are here. Bifalt hates sorcery as much
as he loves Estie, and the discovery that she could become a
Magister shatters him. But he must rally and fight. Belleger and
Amika are all that stand between the Great God's forces and his
ultimate goal: the destruction of the Last Repository and its
treasure of knowledge.
Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Series 6 Books Collection Set
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Lord Foul's Bane
Instantly recognised as a modern fantasy classic, Stephen Donaldsons uniquely imaginative and complex THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, THE UNBELIEVER became a bestselling literary phenomenon that transformed the genre. Lying unconscious after an accident, writer Thomas Covenant awakes in the Land a strange, beautiful world locked in constant conflict between good and evil. But Covenant, too, has been transformed: weak, angry, and alone in our world, he now holds powers beyond imagining and is greeted as a saviour. Can this man truly become the hero the Land requires?
The Illearth War
Instantly recognised as a modern fantasy classic, Stephen Donaldsons uniquely imaginative and complex THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT, THE UNBELIEVER became a bestselling literary phenomenon that transformed the genre. Against his will, Thomas Covenant is drawn once again out of our reality and into the strange and magical alternative world known as the Land. But forty years have passed in the Land since Covenants last visit forty years in which the evil Lord Foul has grown in power and built an unstoppable army. Covenant must act fast or abandon the Land to complete destruction.
The Power that Preserves
The concluding volume in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, now part of the Voyager Classics collection. Twice before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange other-world where magic worked. Twice he had been forced to join with the Lords of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of the Land. Now he is back to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord Foul.
The Wounded Land
Returning millions of readers to the Land and continuing the epic story of the anti-hero fated to be its saviour, THE SECOND CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT secured Stephen Donaldsons reputation as a master of modern fantasy. For ten years, Thomas Covenant has set the conflicts of the Land behind him. But thousands of years have passed in the Land and the creeping evil of Lord Foul has grown so strong that its influence is felt even in our own world.
The One Tree
Knowing that the fabled One Tree may hold the only means of breaking Lord Fouls power, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery embark on a perilous voyage to discover its location. On their journey, Covenant and Avery will explore new realms and meet new peoples. Even far from the Land, however, the grip of evil is strong and there are many who would see them fail. Soon, Covenant and Averys quest becomes a desperate fight for survival.
White Gold Wielder
After bitter defeat on the Isle of the One Tree, Thomas Covenant, Linden Avery and the Giants of the Search take ship again. Across the frozen oceans they return to the Land, now perilously close to destruction from the ravages of the Sunbane. Drawn inexorably towards the caverns deep below Mount Thunder, Covenant and Linden Avery prepare to meet their bitterest foe. Even the white gold they carry may not serve against Lord Foul's powers.
The world-renowned author of the Thomas Covenant trilogies returns
to mainstream fantasy after more than ten years -- with a brand-new
collection of fantasy short stories. Stephen Donaldson has been one
of the world's most popular fantasy writers ever since his first
million-selling Thomas Covenant trilogy in 1977. In 1990 he took a
new direction with the Gap series, the bestselling sf epic
acclaimed as his best work ever. Now, in his first collection since
1984, he returns to mainstream fantasy with eight stunning stories
that reveal an astonishing mastery of the shorter form. Here are
tales rich with exotic atmosphere, mysticism and menace, including
'The Djinn Who Watches Over the Accursed', an unnerving fable about
a reckless adulterer; 'The Killing Stroke', in which martial-arts
masters fight as champions in a great mind-battle between mages;
and 'Penance', a haunting story of a vampire who roams a
battlefield, searching for the dying. Spellbinding, unpredictable
and always entertaining, this new collection displays the
remarkable imagination and extraordinary range of a writer at the
height of his powers, and confirms Stephen Donaldson's position as
a master of modern fantasy
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The concluding volume in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the
Unbeliever, now part of the Voyager Classics collection. Twice
before Thomas Covenant had been summoned to the strange other-world
where magic worked. Twice he had been forced to join with the Lords
of Revelstone in their war against Lord Foul, the ancient enemy of
the Land. Now he is back -- to a Land ravaged by the armies of Lord
Foul. The Lords are besieged and helpless. No place is safe and
Foul's victory seems certain. Only Covenant can avert it.
Desperately and without hope, he sets out to confront the might of
the Enemy. With him go a Giant, a Bloodguard and the madwoman he
has wronged. And in Foul's Creche, Lord Foul grows in power with
each new defeat for the Land.
The war between Amika and Belleger has raged for generations. Its
roots lie in the distant past, beyond memory. Sorcerers from both
sides rain destruction down on the battlefield, wielding the six
deadly Decimates of fire, earth, wind, water, lightning, and
pestilence. Prince Bifalt hopes that Belleger's new weapons
technology, the rifle, will provide a decisive advantage. But when
Belleger's sorcerers are mysteriously deprived of their magical
abilities, leaving them unable to defend against Amika, he must set
aside his own deep hatred of sorcery and work to solve this new
enigma. Grasping at any chance to save his beloved homeland, Prince
Bifalt of Belleger sets out on a hazardous journey across the
unmapped wastelands to the east. With Elgart, his last comrade,
Bifalt pursues the long-hidden trail of the one object that might
be able to turn the tide of the endless war - a book entitled The
Seventh Decimate. The events that unfold force Prince Bifalt to
weigh his stubbornness, his patriotism, and his hatred for
sorcerers against his sense of loyalty and of what he knows to be
right. And as he learns, Amika and Belleger may simply be pawns
within an even larger struggle...
'Comparable to Tolkien at his best' WASHINGTON POST Returning
millions of readers to the Land and continuing the epic story of
the anti-hero fated to be its saviour, THE SECOND CHRONICLES OF
THOMAS COVENANT secured Stephen Donaldson's reputation as a master
of modern fantasy. For ten years, Thomas Covenant has set the
conflicts of the Land behind him. But thousands of years have
passed in the Land and the creeping evil of Lord Foul has grown so
strong that its influence is felt even in our own world.
Accompanied by doctor Linden Avery, Covenant returns. Together,
they find themselves in a deadly struggle to control not only the
spread of Foul's corruption but also the devastating power of
Covenant's own magic.
Two kingdoms, ancient enemies, must stand alone against an
implacable invader in the masterful conclusion of the Great God's
War epic from the New York Times bestselling author of the
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. They are coming. The kingdoms of
Belleger and Amika had been fighting for generations. But then they
learned of a terrible threat moving through them to destroy the
Last Repository, an immense hidden library. To face this greater
enemy, King Bifalt of Belleger and Queen Estie of Amika allied
their lands and prepared for war. They are at the door. Now the
time of preparation is over. Black ships and sorcery test the
cannon that defend the Bay of Lights. Treachery and betrayal
threaten the kingdoms. The priests of the Great God Rile sow
dissent. And Estie rides for the Last Repository, desperate to
enlist the help of their Magisters-and to understand the nature of
her own magical gift. They are here. Bifalt hates sorcery as much
as he loves Estie, and the discovery that she could become a
Magister shatters him. But he must rally and fight. Belleger and
Amika are all that stand between the Great God's forces and his
ultimate goal: the destruction of the Last Repository and its
treasure of knowledge.
It has been twenty years since Prince Bifalt of Belleger discovered
the Last Repository and the sorcerous knowledge hidden there. At
the behest of the repository's magisters, and in return for the
restoration of sorcery to both kingdoms, the realms of Belleger and
Amika ceased generations of war. Their alliance was sealed with the
marriage of Bifalt to Estie, the crown princess of Amika. But the
peace - and their marriage - has been uneasy. Now the terrible war
that King Bifalt and Queen Estie feared is coming. An ancient enemy
has discovered the location of the Last Repository, and a mighty
horde of dark forces is massing to attack the library and take the
magical knowledge it guards. That horde will slaughter every man,
woman, and child in its path, destroying both Belleger and Amika
along the way. With their alliance undermined by lingering
hostility and conspiracies threatening, it will take all of the
monarchs' strength and will to inspire their people into
defiance...
The fifth and final instalment in the GAP sequence: Stephen
Donaldson's fascinating universe peopled with characters of a
passion and intensity only he could create. As the conflict between
humankind and the Amnion heads for crisis, Morn Hyland, the cyborg
Angus Thermopyle and the survivors on board the crippled starship
Trumpet must return from deep space to Earth. Their mission is to
prevent all-out war with the aliens, which would leave humanity to
pay a terrible price. But the Amnion react with swift fury, and
suddenly Earth is threatened with fiery destruction ...
'Comparable to Tolkien at his best' WASHINGTON POST Returning
millions of readers to the Land and continuing the epic story of
the anti-hero fated to be its saviour, THE SECOND CHRONICLES OF
THOMAS COVENANT secured Stephen Donaldson's reputation as a master
of modern fantasy. Knowing that the fabled One Tree may hold the
only means of breaking Lord Foul's power, Thomas Covenant and
Linden Avery embark on a perilous voyage to discover its location.
On their journey, Covenant and Avery will explore new realms and
meet new peoples. Even far from the Land, however, the grip of evil
is strong and there are many who would see them fail. Soon,
Covenant and Avery's quest becomes a desperate fight for survival.
Desperate for help to find her adopted son, Jeremiah, Linden Avery
has resurrected Thomas Covenant in a cataclysmic exertion of
Earthpower and wild magic. But the consequences of her efforts are
more terrible than she could have imagined. Sorcery on that scale
has awakened the Worm of the World's End: the ultimate end of all
Time, and therefore of all life, has been set in motion. And on a
more personal level, the results are no less extreme. The stress of
reincarnation so many centuries after his death has fractured
Covenant's mind. He cannot tell Linden where to find her son. And
his leprosy has renewed its grip on him, inexorably killing his
nerves. The Ranyhyn had tried to warn her. Now, plunged to depths
of desperation and despair for which she is entirely unprepared,
Linden seeks radical responses to the dilemmas she has created.
Searching for Jeremiah, and accompanied only by a few friends and
allies - some of them unwilling - she takes chances that threaten
her sanity, forcing her to confront the Land's most fearsome
secrets. Dreadful futures hinge on all of her choices, and she and
her companions are driven beyond the limits of their endurance. Yet
she still walks paths laid out for her by the Despiser, and his
forces are ready ...
The bestselling fantasy series from one of the biggest names in the
genre comes to an unforgettable conclusion. This is the final
volume of the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - one of the
keynote works of modern fantasy. Compelled step by step to actions
whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent, Thomas
Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the
magical reality known only as 'the Land'. Now they face their final
crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in
each other their true power - and yet they cannot imagine how to
stop the Worm of the World's End from unmaking Time. Nevertheless
they must resist the ruin of all things, giving their last strength
in the service of the world's continuance.
Fatal Revenant, Book Two of "The Last Chronicles of Thomas
Covenant," begins where The Runes of the Earth ended: Linden Avery
watches from a balcony while Thomas Covenant and her adopted son,
Jeremiah, ride desperately toward Revelstone. But their reunion has
vast consequences which she could not have foreseen. Soon she is
betrayed by the people whom she most needs to trust. Transported
deep into the Land's past, she is forced to confront mysterious
strangers, legendary heroes, and ancient evils, and to stand alone
against the malevolence of the Despiser's minions. Abandoned in
Garroting Deep, the most bloodthirsty of the Land's long-dead
forests, she reaches a fearsome decision: she determines to reshape
reality in an attempt to end the Despiser's evil and her son's
suffering. However, her purpose requires her to find Loric's krill,
a weapon abandoned among the Hills of Andelain millennia ago. And
she needs the aid of friends and allies who will turn against her
if she reveals her intent. Attacked by enemies old and new, and
harried by strange beings with ambiguous agendas, she strives
toward Andelain. But the ravenous skurj are rising, and all of her
actions appear to serve her worst foes.
The fourth instalment in the GAP sequence: Stephen Donaldson's
fascinating universe peopled with characters of a passion and
intensity only he could create. As the planetoid Thanatos Minor
explodes into atoms, the Trumpet hurtles into space, just one step
ahead of hostile pursures. On board the Trumpet are Nick Succorso,
Morn Hyland, her force-grown son Davies and the cyborg Angus
Thermopyle, old enemies now thrown together in a desperate bid for
survival. The only hope for the exhausted crew is an illegal lab in
a distant binary solar system and that means a journey of
unpredictable dangers from which they may not return ...
The third instalment in the GAP sequence: Stephen Donaldson's
fascinating universe peopled with characters of a passion and
intensity only he could create. After a terrifying encounter with
the Amnion aliens, Nick Succorso made for the safety of Thanatos
Minor, the infamous bootleg shipyard where illegals from all over
the galaxy come to repair their ships (and indulge their exotic
tastes in entertainment). But the Amnion are waiting, and for Nick,
Morn Hyland and her force-grown son Davies, the safe haven has
turned into a vision of hell. Now Angus Thermopyle heads for
Thanatos Minor, programmed to carry out a secret mission that could
have nightmarish consequences for them all ...
A powerful and intense sf tale from a master storyteller In the far
future, gap drives faster-than-light deep space travel, but
sometimes this afflicts some with irreparable brain damage. A Zone
Implant can turn such a person into a zombie, to protect his
shipmates, but it's highly illegal. Ensign Morn Hyland works for
the United Mining Company, which is in charge of law enforcement
throughout known space. She lives aboard a police ship, together
with most of her family; their job is to chase down pirates and
other illegals who prey on the weak, or smuggle goods into
forbidden space. Her life is nothing out of the ordinary - until
she falls in with the pirate Captain Nick Succorso. All of a
sudden, the young, strong, beautiful police officer appears to be
falling in love - well, lust at least - with the murdering pirate,
or so it appears to the folk at the space station's bar. But the
real story was quite different ...
Two new, original novellas-Donaldson's first publication since
finishing the Thomas Covenant series-are a sure cause for
celebration among his many fans. In The King's Justice, a stranger
dressed in black arrives in the village of Settle's Crossways,
following the scent of a terrible crime. He even calls himself
"Black," though almost certainly that is not his name. The people
of the village discover that they have a surprising urge to
cooperate with this stranger, though the desire of inhabitants of
quiet villages to cooperate with strangers is not common in their
land, or most lands. But this gift will not save him as he
discovers the nature of the evil concealed in Settle's Crossways.
The "Augur's Gambit" is a daring plan created by Mayhew Gordian,
Hieronomer to the Queen of Indemnie, a plan to save his Queen and
his country. Gordian is a reader of entrails. In the bodies of
chickens, lambs, piglets, and one stillborn infant he sees the same
message: the island nation of Indemnie is doomed. But even in the
face of certain destruction a man may fight, and the Hieronomer is
utterly loyal to his beautiful Queen--and to her only daughter. The
"Augur's Gambit" is his mad attempt to save a kingdom.
The second volume in the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Thomas Covenant found himself once again summoned to the Land. The Council of Lords needed him to move against Foul the Despiser who held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power. But although Thomas Covenant held the legendary ring, he didn't know how to use its strength, and risked losing everything....
The return of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever! In 1977, with the
publication of THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER,
Stephen Donaldson created a true phenomenon: an epic fantasy
instant bestseller that has now sold millions and millions of
copies across the world. Thomas Covenant is mysteriously struck
down by a disease believed eradicated; abandoned by his wife and
young son, he becomes a pariah. Alone, despairing, Covenant falls -
and is drawn into a mysterious new world where gentle people work
magic and the earth itself brings healing. He is welcomed as the
reincarnation of a legendary saviour, but Covenant is convinced
he's having delusions. At the end of the sixth book, as Covenant
battles to save the world, he is killed - in both worlds - as Dr
Linden Avery, his horrified companion, looks on. Now comes the book
every fantasy reader has been waiting for. It's ten years later and
Linden Avery thought she would never see the Land, or Covenant, her
beloved, again. But Lord Foul has stolen her adopted son, and is
unmaking the very laws of nature. And though she believes Covenant
dead, he keeps sending Linden messages: 'Find me', 'You're the only
one who can do this' and 'Remember that I'm dead'. The Land is in
turmoil, and Lord Foul has plans for them all ...
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