[Legends II (all stories 01] • Legends II

Realm of the Elderlings: Homecoming / Robin Hobb

A Song of Ice and Fire: The Sworn Sword / George R.R. Martin

The Tales of Alvin Maker: The Yazoo Queen / Orson Scott Card

Outlander: Lord John and the Succubus / Diana Gabaldon

Majipoor: The Book of Changes / Robert Silverberg

Otherland: The Happiest Dead Boy in the World / Tad Williams

Pern: Beyond Between / Anne McCaffrey

The Riftwar: The Messenger / Raymond E. Feist

The Symphony of Ages: Threshold / Elizabeth Haydon

American gods: The Monarch of the Glen / Neil Gaiman

Shannara: Indomitable / Terry Brooks

1 ROBIN HOBB returns to the Realm of the Elderlings with “Homecoming,” a powerful tale in which exiles sent to colonize the Cursed Shores find themselves sinking into an intoxicating but deadly dream . . . or is it a memory?

2 GEORGE R. R. MARTIN continues with Dunk, a young hedge knight, and his unusual squire, Egg, in “The Sworn Sword,”.

3 ORSON SCOTT CARD puts Alvin Maker on the mighty Mississippi with ne’er-do-wells Jim Bowie and Abe Lincoln, in “The Yazoo Queen.”

4 DIANE GABALDON puts Outlander misfit in “Lord John and the Succubus,” a supernatural thriller set in the early days of the Seven Years War.

5 ROBERT SILVERBERG has a dilettantish poet in “The Book of Changes.”

6 TAD WILLIAMS explores the strange afterlife of Orlando Gardiner from Otherland in “The Happiest Dead Boy in the World.”

7 ANNE McCAFFREY shines a light into Pern in “Beyond Between.”

8 RAYMOND E. FEIST sends one soldier on the ride of his life, an ordinary time for “The Messenger.”

9 ELIZABETH HAYDON relates the destruction of Serendair and the fate of its last defenders in “Threshold,”

10 NEIL GAIMAN tells of the man Shadow, after *American Gods* in “The Monarch of the Glen.”

11 TERRY BROOKS adds an exciting epilogue to *The Wishsong of Shannara* in “Indomitable,” how Jair Ohmsford’ destroys the evil Ildatch, armed only with illusion.