Worlds Of Their Own [Paperback]

R. A. Salvatore (Author), Michael A. Stackpole (Author), Ed Greenwood (Author), Elaine Cunningham (Author), Monte Cook (Author), James Lowder (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 23, 2008

Many of today's best (and best-selling) fantasists got their start writing shared world fiction supporting roleplaying games. This massive anthology collects more than a dozen thrilling tales from R.A. Salvatore, Michael A. Stackpole, Monte Cook, Ed Greenwood, Elaine Cunningham, and more to give an exciting overview of the original worlds and characters of authors who achieved their greatest fame writing stories they do not own. Edited by James Lowder (The Book of All Flesh, Prince of Lies), Worlds of Their Own presents an unprecedented sampler of fantasy and science fiction adventure tales from some of the best-loved and best-known authors in the genre.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC. (September 23, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601251181
• ISBN-13: 978-1601251183
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,815,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A surprisingly good collection, November 7, 2010

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John Middleton (Brisbane, QLD, AUST) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Worlds Of Their Own (Paperback)

Worlds of their own is the first short story anthology published by Paizo as part of the Planet Stories line - and its not at all bad. The common thread is the authors involved are (arguably) best-known as writers in "shared worlds" - Star Wars, D&D, World of Darkness and various others. This is their chance to show what they can do when writing in worlds of their own creation. Generally this is fantasy, but at least one story is hard military sci-fi.

Michael A Stackpole has written some really good novels outside of Star Wars - his Dragoncrown War cycle is some of the best fantasy I have read. Apart from that though, I was unaware of a lot of the authors involved, and was pleasantly surprised. Salvatore was geeky fun, and Jeff Grubb's cloudsailers were a striking concept, which was also well written.

Its fun picking which of these stories and settings could support a whole novel. Views on this will differ, but there is no doubt there is some real talent on show. As far as anthologies go, this a pretty good little collection.