Legends: Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy

Robert Silverberg

Macmillan, Sep 8, 2001 - Fiction - 715 pages

Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series: from Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, these stories are exceptionally well written and universally well told.

Features short stories set in the worlds of...
...Stephen King's The Dark Tower
...Terry Pratchett's Discworld
...Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth
...Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker
...Robert Silverberg's Majipoor
...Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea
...Tad Williams's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn
...George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
...Anne McCaffrey's Pern
...Raymond E. Feist's Riftwar Saga
...Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time

About the author

Robert Silverberg has written more than 160 science fiction novels and nonfiction books. In his spare time he has edited over 60 anthologies. He began submitting stories to science fiction magazines when he was just 13. His first published story, entitled "Gorgon Planet," appeared in 1954 when he was a sophomore at Columbia University. In 1956 he won his first Hugo Award, for Most Promising New Author, and he hasn't stopped writing since. Among his standouts: the bestselling Lord Valentine trilogy, set on the planet of Majipoor, and the timeless classics Dying Inside and A Time of Changes. Silverberg has won the prestigious Nebula Award an astonishing five times, and Hugo Awards on four separate occasions; he has been nominated for both awards more times that any other writer. In 2004, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him their Grand Master award for career achievement, making him the only SF writer to win a major award in each of six consecutive decades.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Legends: Stories By The Masters of Modern Fantasy; Tor fantasy
• Editor: Robert Silverberg
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2001
• ISBN: 0765300354, 9780765300355
• Length: 715 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Fantasy / General