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by Kristen Britain.
This one had a horse on the cover and a good feeling to it. It turns out to be a fantasy triology og high quality. Karigan by coincidence gets to join the Kings messenger service but evil is building up in the forest. I shall say no more.
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by Jane Linskjold.
I found the Firekeeper books by coincidence, buying the second book in the series because it had a wolf on the cover. When I actually read it, I liked it and bought the remaining three.
Kings and Queens and Earls and nobility, small magic called talents, larger magic which almost led to the destruction of civilisation. Royal animals - wolves, birds, elks, bears, lives across the mountains, forgotten by most people, able to talk to each other and to Firekeeper, the wolf woman who grew up amongst them and who might and might not be King Tedric's granddaughter and the heir to the throne of Hawk Haven.
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by Terry Pratchett.
Wizards trying to survive each other in the Unseen University in the city of Ankh Morpork, watchmen eating fat with BCP (Burned Crunchy Pieces) with a rather tall dwarf and a werewolf, Golems starting a labour union, a noble lady with a dragons kennel, whitches with weight problems, an old broom with starting problems and a quite remarkable cat, vampires becoming addicted to a liquid quite, but not entirely unlike tea (sorry, mixing references here :) Death on his nice white horse Binky, Death's granddaughter Susan (soo good with children), and little blue men in kilts.
The Discworld books are a parody on fantasy as well as on the world we live in. Especially some English tradtions and old well-established institutions are being hung out to dry, but the world in general does not go free either. The best thing about reading a Terry Pratchett book is getting back to the real world realising that it might be bad, but it is not that bad!
The Tiffany books are a sub series within the Discworld series, a little more youth or teenage books than the other Discworld books, but well worth reading for grown up people, too. The Science of DiscWorld is alternating between chapters about Ponder Stibbons doing weird experiments at the Unseen University, and chapters discussing science, evolution and natural history in the context of the narrative (more or less). These are hard reading, and a bit depressing too.
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The L-Space Web
Discworld - Wikipedia
By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
This is a written down AD&D game, novel style but also game style. The group of characters participating in the adventure is Tanis the half-elf, the brothers Cameron (strong but not too smart) and Rastlin (Wizard, suspected evil), Sturm - a knight living after the codex of honor of a knight order that his father belonged to, Flint the dwarf and Tasslehoff the Kender (small creatures that looks a bit like a hobbits but are a lot more annoying). They go on great adventures to save the world. There are many books. I only read the original Chronicles triology and the Legends triology which they had in Danish in the school library :-)
The legend of Huma, being a legend in the time of the Chronicles, is told in a Dragonlance Heroes books by Richard A Knaak.
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Dragonlance Chronicles
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Dragonlance Legends
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Dragonlance Krøniker
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Wikipedia Dragonlance book list: List of
Dragonlance novels
Dragonlace bøger på Dansk: Realms of Fantasy, BogGuide.
by Anne McCaffrey
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Dragons and their dragon riders chasing "thread" in the sky to protect their planet. The dragon riders are chosen from their ability to communicate with the dragons telepatically. The dragon selects its master when it is hatched. There are also smaller dragons or dragonettes on Pern. Pern is a colony planet originally colonized from space ships. I don't remember if they are from Earth. After settling on a presumably nice and quiet planet, they find out that Pern is regularly threatened by the falling "thread" coming from a small celestial body near Pern which they have wondered about. The "thread" burns away plants or skin or whatever they hit, but the native dragons can kill it, though not without danger for themselves and their riders.
I read a random few of the Pern books many years ago - those available at the library. I own only 3 of them, Dragonsdawn, Dragonquest and the White Dragon. I have later found out that there are many books in this series and the order is a bit confusing. I think I have read 7 of them, some in Danish many years ago. I haven't got back to reading them. I rather liked them, though.
Chronological orderFirst Pass
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About Alfred and Haplo representing good or evil - or along the way, one rather doubts the essential truth of this. They represent two peoples possesing some amount of magic, which used to be at war and ended up splitting the world into 4 different worlds. One people put the other in the middle of some labyrith they have spent generations trying to get out of. The two main characters chase each other through all these worlds. We also meet other interesting people along the way, especially I remember Aleatha who has half closed eyes with long lashes and always looks like she has just woken from her sleep. In a very beautiful way, off course.
All from memory. I read them many years ago, borrowing them from a friend. Fascinaiting while reading them but not one of the greatest litterary experiences. Written by the people behind Dragonlance Chronicles: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
The Death Gate Cycle- Wikipeida
Last updated: February 10, 2010