Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Vol. 3 (of 3) (1998)

by Robert Silverberg (Editor)

Other authors: Robert Jordan (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Terry Pratchett (Contributor), Tad Williams (Contributor)

Series: Legends (Book I, vol. 3)

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A six-hundred-page anthology of stories on various fantasy worlds, each preceded by an introduction. They range from Terry Pratchett's The Sea and Little Fishes, set in Discworld, to Ursula K. Le Guin's Dragonfly, set in Earthsea.

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A collection of short stories that contains the original version of Wheel of Time 'Book 0'. It can be found in it's entirety in the longform book 'New Spring'.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Silverberg, Robert	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Jordan, Robert	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Le Guin, Ursula K.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Pratchett, Terry	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Williams, Tad	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Legends (Book I, vol. 3)

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Legends I: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy by Robert Silverberg

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The Sea and Little Fishes [short story] by Terry Pratchett

The Burning Man by Tad Williams

Dragonfly by Ursula K. Le Guin

New Spring [novella] by Robert Jordan

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Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (1998)

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Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Vol. 3 (of 3)

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Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Vol. 3 (of 3)

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1998

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For Marty and Ralph
who certainly know why

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This is the final third of the 3-way US split of the original 11 story Legends 1. Please be very careful when combining!

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A six-hundred-page anthology of stories on various fantasy worlds, each preceded by an introduction. They range from Terry Pratchett's The Sea and Little Fishes, set in Discworld, to Ursula K. Le Guin's Dragonfly, set in Earthsea.

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Contains the following four short stories: "New Spring" by Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time), "Dragonfly" by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea), "The Burning Man" by Tad Williams (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn), "The Sea and Little Fishes" by Terry Pratchett (Discworld).

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