Table of ContentsIntroduction by Scott Siegel
"Gods' Law" by R.A. Salvatore
"Ice Magic" by Douglas Niles
"Family Tree" by Dan Parkinson
"The Lazy Man" by Nick O'Donohoe
"The Sword of Dreams" by Ed Greenwood
"The Ultimate Weapon" by Christie Golden
"Blood of the Lamb" by Mary H. Herbert
"The Greatest Gift" by Mary Kirchoff
"The Sleeping Sauran" by Elaine Cunningham
Introduction
This is the genesis of Tethedril, a world created and fully imagined by
today's most gifted fantasy authors.
Tales From Tethedril weaves together
stories of high drama, clever comedy, and searing action to bring the
history of its fabled inhabitants to vivid life. Through words, ideas,
actions, and characters, you will come to feel a kinship with the peoples
of this world and a sense of belonging to its places.
It was my great pleasure to commission this project, an enterprise that
afforded me the opportunity to invite an extraordinary cast of writers to
collaborate on the found-ing of an indelible world. With style and
imagination, they did just that. Consider the authors whose work you will
find between the covers of this book ...
Six-time
New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore,
who has taken the fantasy world by storm with more than four million books
in print. It was his original short story that became the basis of this
volume.
Mary Kirchoff, who is among the fantasy world's most gifted writers, and
who would be among its most famous had she not been so busy guiding other
authors to fame and fortune as one of the genre's most influential editors.
Douglas Niles, the masterful writer who penned The Moonshae Trilogy, which
launched the hugely successful Forgotten Realms.
Dan Parkinson, who is, without doubt, the most origi-nal voice in fantasy
and science fiction today and the author of the ingenious new series The
Gates of Time.
The legendary Ed Greenwood, who has an imagination so fertile that even
his ideas have ideas.
Elaine Cunningham, who is fast becoming one of the hottest, as well as one
of the most respected, new authors in the genre.
Mary H. Herbert, one of fantasy's most elegant writers.
Nick O'Donohoe, a storyteller without peer.
Christie Golden, who writes like a dream.
Each one of these authors has written extensively in the fantasy genre;
many of them have a shelf or more of published novels to their credit.
This book offers you the chance to get to know them--if you don't already.
Mostly, though, this book offers you the chance to enter a freshly created
world that is, at once, exotically original yet fundamentally familiar.
You will not find the entire history of Tethedril here. In each of the
stories--they are set in different times during the evolution of this
remarkable place--there is a piece of the larger tapestry.
Should these tales ignite a fire of interest in you to discover still more
of
Tethedril's secrets, then more will surely follow. In the meantime, though
these stories may exist in a book, they are intended to live in your
heart...
Scott Siegel
New York City
