Dragonlance Read The Beginning Of Dragonlance: Dragons of Deceit!

The first few pages of August's upcoming Dragonlance novel Dragons of Deceit from creators Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman are available to read over at Polygon. It opens up with Destina Rosethorn, a Solamnic noble, just before the War of the Lance, the central conflict which was portrayed in the original Dragonlance Chronicles back in the 1980s. The novel trilogy features time travel.

Alternatively you can listen to the excerpt below!



The cover, with art by Philipp Urlich, was revealed some months ago; it features Destina, flanked by Tasslehoff Burrfoot and a dwarf called Wolfstone, who comes from Thorbardin. Behind them is Saber, a copper dragon.

The novel trilogy is not connected to the Dragonlance D&D hardcover coming from WotC later this year

Read the opening pages of Dragons of Deceit, the first new Dragonlance novel in more than a decade

Weis and Hickman on how time travel factors into the Dragonlance Destinies trilogy

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Dragonlance - Dragons of Deceit: Check Out the Dragonlance Novel Cover

While we've known about the upcoming Dragonlance novel trilogy since October 2020, Margaret Weis has shared the wraparound cover of the first book in the new Dragonlance novel trilogy, Dragons of Deceit and confirmed the release date August 9th 2022. As we've noted before, Weis & Hickman are...

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[Reynard]

Can we talk about how just bad that excerpt is from a prose perspective? What happened?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Can we talk about how just bad that excerpt is from a prose perspective? What happened?

What do you mean "what happened"? The prose quality is consistent with what the authors have written in the past. Maybe you have changed?

 

[Reynard]

What do you mean "what happened"? The prose quality is consistent with what the authors have written in the past. Maybe you have changed?

I just comparison read the opening of Twilight because I thought maybe that was true. It's not. This is considerably lower quality.

 

[Morrus]

I just comparison read the opening of Twilight because I thought maybe that was true. It's not. This is considerably lower quality.

I don't think it is. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I just comparison read the opening of Twilight because I thought maybe that was true. It's not. This is considerably lower quality.

I'm not seeing it, the prose are just as purple as I remember. Unless you mean purely in terms of SPG*? I might not notice that (being dyslexic), and it's largely down to how good an editor you have.

*Edit: Just realised this is teacher jargon. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar.

 

[Reynard]

I'm not seeing it, the prose are just as purple as I remember. Unless you mean purely in terms of SPG*? I might not notice that (being dyslexic), and it's largely down to how good an editor you have.

*Edit: Just realised this is teacher jargon. Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar.

Exhibit A:

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Exhibit A:

One passage is hardly representative of the entire opus. W&H frequently used overwritten, convoluted to the degree of bizarreness, sentences.

 

[Reynard]

One passage is hardly representative of the entire opus. W&H frequently used overwritten, convoluted to the degree of bizarreness, sentences.

All I am saying is that the nearly 40 year old passage is much tighter and better written than the new one, written by the same people.

It's actually not uncommon for writers to get worse as they get older, probably as you suggested because they lean on editors less.

 

[deganawida]

The real question no one is asking about this new series is if all the guards will be wielding hauberks. Drove me crazy a few months ago when I re-read Winter Night.

 

[Helena Real]

They never really accepted that when you create something whilst working under contract to an employer, it belongs to the employer, not to you.

Although technically (and legally even) you're right, this is a work of art, love, and passion that W&H feel understandably protective of and, what's more, they feel they know what's best for the setting and fiction overall. And you know what? I think I and many other Dragonlance fans agree with them.

Even with my misgivings about War of Souls/Amber trilogy, they're still much better—and more recognizably Dragonlance—than anything that TSR produced for the Fifth Age/Age of Mortals without them, be it fiction or setting material. Heck! Apart from Dragonlance Adventures (1E)—which was written by Weis & Hickman—the only other gaming material that's ever been produced thst comes close to “deliver“ was what Weis and others produced during 3.x under a license.

So yeah, they may not “own” Dragonlance in a legal sense, but they sure as hell do in a spiritual and even practical one, I'd say.