Dragonlance Chronicles Omnibus Coming February 2025

Features a foreword by Joe Manganiello.

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Dragonlance fans will be able to pick up a compiled hardcover edition next year. By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, the trilogy was originally launched in 1984 with Dragons of Autumn Twilight. While there have been omnibus editions before (I have one!), this one features a foreword by actor and Dragonlance megafan Joe Manganiello.

The hardcover comes out February 4th 2025 for $35. You can pre-order it from Penguin Random House.

ABOUT DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES

“Before there was Game of Thrones―there was Dragonlance.”—Vox

Rediscover the unforgettable world of the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series with the first three novels of one of the most popular fantasy series of all time—now featuring a new foreword by Joe Manganiello!

Once merely creatures of legend, the dragons have returned—but with their arrival comes the departure of the old gods, and all healing magic. As war threatens to engulf the land, lifelong friends reunite for an adventure that will change their lives and shape their world forever….

Meet Sturm the Solamnic knight, Tanis Half-Elf, Tasslehoff Burrfoot the irrepressible Kender, Flint the Dwarf, Caramon the warrior and his twin brother, Raistlin the red-robed mage—former comrades together again after five years apart, and looking for adventure.

They find it when they see a woman use a blue crystal staff to heal a villager. Wondering if it’s a sign the gods have not abandoned them after all, they investigate and swiftly find themselves in deep trouble.

The Seekers, members of a new religious order, want the artifact for their own ends, believing it will help them replace the gods and win the continent of Ansalon. Now these old comrades in arms must fight again to prevent the staff from falling into the hands of darkness….

Dragonlance Chronicles features the three novels Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning.
 

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Parmandur

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Has the same failing as most modern fantasy - it takes it way too seriously. I’d rather reread Pratchett.
I mean, can't go wrong with Sir Terry. Sanderson would agree, Going Postal, Night Watch, and The Truth are some of hia favorite novels!

But I wouldn’t really have put Sanderson in the "overly serious" camp: aome of his books are pretty silly, even (The Frugal Wizards Guide to Surviving Medieval England, The Reckoners trilogy). And I find myself laughing a lot in his more serious books?
 

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I mean, can't go wrong with Sir Terry. Sanderson would agree, Going Postal, Night Watch, and The Truth are some of hia favorite novels!

But I wouldn’t really have put Sanderson in the "overly serious" camp: aome of his books are pretty silly, even (The Frugal Wizards Guide to Surviving Medieval England, The Reckoners trilogy). And I find myself laughing a lot in his more serious books?
Maybe I should give those a try.
 





MNblockhead

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Every time I read someone say that they used to like the DL Chronicles but cannot go back because of how bad they really are, I feel like I must be from other planet or something. I read them first when I was a teenager, and I have re-read them throughout the years and, let me tell you, they hold up SO well for me.

If I'm extra honest, I prefer the Chronicles to a lot of (supposedly better) contemporary fantasy. I think it reads better than ASoI&F, for example, way better than anything Sanderson has ever published, and so on and so forth.

Maybe the difference comes down to what is it you're looking for in a novel. I don't care much for an "innovative" plot (one that you can't guess, I assume), but I have to love at least 1 main character. And I love so many of them in the Chronicles! What's there not to love about Tanis, Raistlin, Sturm, Goldmoon, or Tas? Both Caramon and Riverwind are lovely too, in their own way. And Flint is such a classic grumpy old person with a heart of gold!

So, yeah, I'm pretty excited for this. I hope it does well and I wish we could get more novels in my favorite D&D setting.

But, even if we don't, I can always return to the Chronicles and the Legends and, at least so far, it has always been a blast ☺ 🖤
Same. I realize part of it is nostalgia, but I reread them about 6 years ago and ate them up. I don't pretend that they are high literature. But they remain a fun genre read. Though part of the fun was quizzical/disapproving looks I would get from my co-worker when I would pull one out to read on the plane. :)
 

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