The Search for Power

Dragonlance: Tales from the War of Souls #3

by Margaret Weis

The latest Dragonlance anthology, featuring an introduction by Margaret Weis.
This newest anthology focuses on the lives and ways of dragons in the era following the end of the New York Times best-selling War of Souls trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Edited by Margaret Weis and filled with a dozen stories from both well-known Dragonlance authors and a few newcomers, this is the first anthology to feature stories that take place in the current Dragonlance time period.

Genres: Dragonlance, Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Dungeons and Dragons, Anthologies, Reference

335 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 2004

About the author

Margaret Edith Weis is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories. At TSR, Inc., she teamed with Tracy Hickman to create the Dragonlance role-playing game (RPG) world. She is founding CEO and owner of Sovereign Press, Inc and Margaret Weis Productions, licensing several popular television and movie franchises to make RPG series in addition to their own.
In 1999, Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons, saying she and Hickman are "basically responsible for the entire gaming fiction genre". In 2002, she was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in part for Dragonlance.

Reviews

[Jim C · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of short stories that take place in the world of Dragonlance. The time setting is towards the end of the dragon purge and the return of the gods.

I thought all the stories in this collection correctly captured the atmosphere of the current world. I have noticed in some anthologies that there are stories that could be placed in any anthology. That is not the case here as every story deals with a dragon or the return of the gods. I know when I read a collection of short stories that my rating most likely will be three stars. There will be stories that I love and some I hate. In this collection the number of stories I enjoyed were more than I disliked. The first two stories were terrific and I could not ask for a better start to this collection. The stories towards the ends were average until the last story which was a very good story.

This is a good collection of stories and if you like stories with dragons this collection might be the one for you.

[Angela · Rating 1 out of 5]

With the remaining 8 stories, mediocrity sets in. One or two aren't so bad (e.g. Chamber's 'At the Water's Edge'), but some are decidedly unreadable or horrible ('Wyrm's Claw Inn' by Horner and Soulban's 'Marine Skies'), and 2 I didn't even contend with (Niles' 'Albino' and Stein's 'Coin of Adament').

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just finished reading this book of short stories. Most of them were quite good, although I thought Wyrm’s Claw Inn and Coin of Adament to be comparatively weaker. I especially enjoyed Osuin’s Treasure, Loyalty, The Dragon’s Child, and The Box. And who doesn’t enjoy a good gnome story by Jeff Grubb in the form of Special Delivery here!

[Fumphwoog, Lady of all Sorrows · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good, full of short stories from the world of DragonLance. WOOT!