Magic: The Gathering: Artifacts Cycle II

Magic: The Gathering: Artifacts Cycle #2-4

by Lynn Abbey, J. Robert King, Loren L. Coleman

Together in one volume for the first time, the final three novels of one of Magic: The Gathering’s® most popular series.

Planeswalker: The war between Urza and Mishra is over. Brooding on the death of his brother at the hands of extraplanar forces, Urza drifts among the planes. But the end of the Brother’s War has transformed him into something greater. Deep within his heart, a spark has been kindled to a flame that cannot be quenched. Urza has become a planeswalker.

Time Streams: Urza must enlist the most brilliant minds in the multiverse to defend against the imminent Phyrexian invasion.

Bloodlines: Time is short in the race to find the one who will wield the power of the Legacy. Conflict and power struggles abound as a plot to Kill Urza unfolds.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction

759 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2009

About the author

Lynn Abbey began publishing in 1979 with the novel Daughter of the Bright Moon and the short story "The Face of Chaos," part of a Thieves World shared world anthology. She received early encouragement from Gordon R. Dickson.

In the 1980s she married Robert Asprin and became his co-editor on the Thieves World books. She also contributed to other shared world series during the 1980s, including Heroes in Hell and Merovingen Nights.

Abbey and Asprin divorced in 1993 and Abbey moved to Oklahoma City. She continued to write novels during this period, including original works as well as tie-ins to Role Playing Games for TSR. In 2002, she returned to Thieves World with the novel Sanctuary and also began editing new anthologies, beginning with Turning Points.

Reviews

[Ryan Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have reviews of the three individual novels in this one separately, I believe. Two of them are quite bad, the third is alright. I would overall say it's not good and would want to avoid it, although after reading Artifacts Cycle I you may not find yourself willing to skip this.

[Keb Wynnell · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first book in this compilation was quite good. It explored the lore of the main character Urza quite deeply from a third person perspective, showing his madness and his plans, and in the end seeing what he had accomplished. The only slight issues this book had were its grammar, as it constantly misspelled words, and its lack of clear time jumping.

[Mart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Planeswalker - for me the plot was a bit slow and dull, there were only two characters

Time Streams - I enjoyed this one as the plot was diverse and there were many different characters and iconic locations

Bloodlines - better than Planeswalker, but less satisfying than Time Streams