Books by Margaret Weis and Complete Book Reviews

Margaret Weis, Author . Tor $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0468-1
Best known for her successful partnership with Tracy Hickman (Dragons of the Vanished Moon, etc.), Weiss launches a new series on her own that's sure to please high fantasy fans. In the world of Dragonvald, an ancient race of dragons with its...
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Margaret Weis, Author . Tor $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0469-8
Weaving more spellbinding magic in the second book of her Dragonvarld trilogy, Weis charts the fate of Melisande's twin sons, whose bloody birth marked the cliffhanging conclusion of Mistress of Dragons (2003). Marcus, "human, born of love...
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Margaret Weis, Author . Tor $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0470-4
With a bright flash of dragon magic, bestseller Weis winds up her enchanting Dragonvarld trilogy, which began with Mistress of Dragons (2003) and continued with The Dragon's Son (2004). Nasty rogue dragons have plunged this colorful fantasy...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, With Spectra Books $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-09647-7
Thousands of pages have been spent getting to this seventh and final book in the massive Death Gate Cycle (Into the Labyrinth). Only the most voracious fans of Weis and Hickman will feel it was worth the effort; anyone else will find that...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, With Spectra Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09539-5
Alternating between incoherence and impenetrability, the sixth volume in the Death Gate series takes place in Abarrach, a land filled with magic, necromancers and the walking dead. Xar, the Lord of Abarrach, seeks control of the Seventh Gate,...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, With Spectra Books $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-09965-2
Hard as Weis and Hickman try to resuscitate their popular Darksword series (Darksword Adventures, 1988, etc.), this tired rehash never springs to life. Ruthless aliens, the unpronounceable Hch'nyv, are menacing both a near-future Earth dominated by...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, With Spectra Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08310-1
The fourth volume of the authors' Death Gate Cycle, begun with Dragon Wing , moves to Chelestra, Realm of Sea, last of the four worlds created by the Sartan during the Sundering in their battle against the Patryns. The inhabitants of this world--dwar
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, With Del Rey Books $24 (421p) ISBN 978-0-345-39760-7
The veteran SF team of Weis and Hickman (the Dragonlance and Deathgate series) plunges into a new universe with this soap operatic tale of a galactic chase. Exactly 3256 years after a family row sent supreme god Kendis-dai ""into mortality"" after...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Larry Elmore, Illustrator, Tracy Hickman, With TSR $19.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-56076-822-7
Poor grammar, weak imagery and rickety old plots dressed up as Matters of Import doom this series of novellas, a continuation of Weis and Hickman's popular Dragon Lance series. As before, the protagonists are heroic; the revelation here is that the...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Don Perrin, With Roc $18.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-45425-6
Weis (the Dragonlance series, etc.) returns to her Stars of the Guardians series (The Lost King, etc.), this time collaborating with military expert and first-time author Perrin, formerly of the Canadian Defense Department. Cyborg Xris and the six...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Joint Author Del Rey Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-39762-1
Avast, ye Earthlubbers! Weis and Hickman are launching a new star pirate voyage in their Starshield series, trying to revive characters already sagging in The Mantle of Kendis-Dai. According to their 3000-year-old myth, galactic superhero Kendis-Dai
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Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes. Tor, $27.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3349-0
This rousing second chapter in the Dragon Brigades epic fantasy series (after Shadow Raiders) is set in an intricate magical land that floats on the Breath of God. Bitter rival empires Rosia and Freya are threatened by Bottom Dwellers, evil demons...
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Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes. Tor, $27.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3350-6
Weis and Krammes wind up their Dragon Brigade high fantasy trilogy (after Shadow Raiders and Storm Riders) with this inflated YA-style concluding clash of good versus evil in a complicated sociopolitical setting. Former Dragon Brigade leader...
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Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes. Tor, $29.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8109-5
Intricate political intrigue marries well with personal machinations in Weis and Krammes’s epic second Dragon Corsairs fantasy (after Spymaster). The kingdoms of Rosia and Freya stand precariously between war and a tentative peace, with everything...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Lizz Weis, Author . Avon $6.99 (369p) ISBN 978-0-06-083333-6
Margaret Weis (Dragonlance ) and daughter Lizz’s fantasy romance succeeds mostly in the fantasy department. Matthew Gallow, burned at the stake as a Christian martyr, fell from grace, returned to human form and now drinks too much and performs
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Margaret Weis, Author, Lizz Weis, Author . Avon $6.99 (371p) ISBN 978-0-06-083325-1
In this, the first book of a new series, veteran fantasy author Margaret Weis teams up with daughter Lizz for a smart, high-speed paranormal romance refreshingly free of vampires and werewolves. After a few Dark Angels escape from Hell to stir up...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author Eos $25 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-105180-7
The founding parents of the game-tie-in fantasy novel here launch a role-playing-game-related high fantasy trilogy in which game knowledge is irrelevant to reader enjoyment. This is a classic tale of the rivalry of two half-brothers, the sons of...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author Wizards of the Coast $27.95 (1312p) ISBN 978-0-7869-1870-6
Fans of the Dragonlance books will welcome Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's The Annotated Chronicles, an omnibus volume edited by Jean Blashfield Black, which includes all three Dragon Chronicles (Dragons of Autumn Twilight; Dragons of Winter...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author Spectra Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07039-2
Destruction looms over the dwarves, men and elves of Pryan, the World of Fire, in this second volume of The Death Gate cycle, begun in Dragon Wing . Childlike but immensely powerful, eyeless tytanssp.ok move through the three societies, killing all...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author . Eos $26 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-105179-1
Bestsellers Weis and Hickman (Dragonlance series, etc.) deliver a solid tale peopled by familiar figures (some of whom are Not What They Seem) in the second volume of their latest fantasy trilogy. Two hundred years after the action in Well of...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author . Tor $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1973-9
In this barely disguised Viking pastiche, the dragonships have real dragons and the gods fight side by side with their heroes. Named Chief of Chiefs of the sea-raiding Vindrasi, Skylan Ivorson discovers that his victory over the last chief came...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author . Wizards of the Coast $25.95 (456p) ISBN 978-0-7869-4333-3
I n this enterprising second volume of the Lost Chronicles (after 2006's Dragons of the Dwarven Depths ), Emperor Ariakis pressures Dragon Highlord Kitiara uth Matar into a plan to make sure the Solamnic knight Derek Crownguard hears about,...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author . Eos $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-06-105178-4
In addition to a host of mostly likable characters and a fast-moving plot, dependable Dragonlance veterans Weis and Hickman provide plenty of neat stuff for the fantasy gamer (Blood-knives, magical jewels, agate-eyed diving sticks) in this highly...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author . Wizards of the Coast $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7869-2740-1
The One God Takhisis has pulled a fast one and vanquished the other gods of Krynn to a place unknown in this fast-paced conclusion to the War of the Souls trilogy (Dragons of a Fallen Sun; Dragons of a Lost Star). Through the warrior princess Mina,...
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Margaret Weis, Author, Tracy Hickman, Author, Stefan Rudnicki, Read by , read by Stefan Rudnicki. Macmillan Audio $59.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0431-8
Authors Weis and Hickman embark on a dragon series very different from their most famous series, DragonLance, and marked by deeper mythological underpinnings, a more realized world and tighter rendition. New gods have come into existence, beating...
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Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes. Tor, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8111-8
Weis and Krammes conclude their fantastical epic Dragon Corsairs trilogy with this wordy, enjoyable installment, packing action into every page and glossing the whole with a fairy tale feel. Immediately after the events of 2018’s Privateer, the...
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