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Brotherhood of the Wolfby David FarlandISBN 0812570693 (0-8125-7069-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brotherhood of the Wolf'Book summary:David Farland's "Runelords" fantasy sequence began in 1998 with The Sum of All Men, a career-relaunch novel whose sales far outstripped earlier SF published under his real name Dave Wolverton. Runelords are supermen whose strength, stamina, and vision, and other physical abilities are multiplied by magical "endowments" transferred from unfortunate donors who are crippled by their loss: the archvillain in the story is virtually invincible thanks to tens of thousands of endowments.
This second book avoids middle-volume doldrums by introducing a vast onslaught of still tougher and memorably unpleasant nonhumans who even the villains must oppose. Meanwhile, various characters skirmish on different parts of the map, and the hero struggles with unreliable powers conferred on him when he was chosen as Earth King to save the land and humanity--or maybe only a tiny part of each.
Farland maintains a steady flow of new situations, reversals, gambits, and surprises ... it's a real shock when one chap who has incurred a dreadful penalty for virtuous reasons is not spared (as expected in the normal chivalry of fantasyland) but rather pays the full, eye-watering price. One small criticism: the writing contains occasional sloppiness and repetition. Nonetheless, this is a rousing, painfully gripping story. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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- Brotherhood of the Wolf: ISBN 0684860554 (0-684-86055-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - Brotherhood of the Wolf: ISBN 0743408276 (0-7434-0827-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - Brotherhood of the Wolf: ISBN 0606196684 (0-606-19668-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Brotherhood of the Wolf: ISBN 0812570693 (0-8125-7069-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
- Brotherhood of the Wolf: ISBN 0684860554 (0-684-86055-4)
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Brotherhood of the Wolf : Volume Two of 'the Runelords'by David FarlandISBN 0312867425 (0-312-86742-5)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brotherhood of the Wolf : Volume Two of 'the Runelords''Book summary:David Farland's "Runelords" fantasy sequence began in 1998 with The Sum of All Men, a career-relaunch novel whose sales far outstripped earlier SF published under his real name Dave Wolverton. Runelords are supermen whose strength, stamina, and vision, and other physical abilities are multiplied by magical "endowments" transferred from unfortunate donors who are crippled by their loss: the archvillain in the story is virtually invincible thanks to tens of thousands of endowments.
This second book avoids middle-volume doldrums by introducing a vast onslaught of still tougher and memorably unpleasant nonhumans who even the villains must oppose. Meanwhile, various characters skirmish on different parts of the map, and the hero struggles with unreliable powers conferred on him when he was chosen as Earth King to save the land and humanity--or maybe only a tiny part of each.
Farland maintains a steady flow of new situations, reversals, gambits, and surprises ... it's a real shock when one chap who has incurred a dreadful penalty for virtuous reasons is not spared (as expected in the normal chivalry of fantasyland) but rather pays the full, eye-watering price. One small criticism: the writing contains occasional sloppiness and repetition. Nonetheless, this is a rousing, painfully gripping story. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Lair of Bonesby David FarlandISBN 0671029517 (0-671-02951-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lair of Bones'Book summary:In THE LAIR OF BONES the stars fall from heaven and the very earth trembles in pain. With Gaborn's kingdom of Mystarria in ruins, four powerful kings march to claim its spoils, even as a vast army of reavers from the underworld sallies forth, intending to put an end to mankind. In one last-ditch effort to heal the earth, Averan leads the Earth King, Gaborn Val Orden, far below the surface to the Lair of Bones, to confront the leader of the reaver hordes. There Gaborn must confront an ancient evil - before the world is torn apart. In this fourth volume of THE RUNELORDS series, David Farland continues to rewrite the boundaries of epic fantasy. There are only impossible decisions for his protagonists, and the evil of the reavers may simply be a mask for the true horrors to come... [via]
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- The Lair Of Bones: ISBN 0765341077 (0-7653-4107-7)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Lair Of Bones: ISBN 0765301768 (0-7653-0176-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - The Lair of Bones: ISBN 0684860627 (0-684-86062-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - The Lair of Bones: ISBN 0671029517 (0-671-02951-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
- The Lair Of Bones: ISBN 0765341077 (0-7653-4107-7)
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The Runelordsby David FarlandISBN 0765356457 (0-7653-5645-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Runelords'Book summary:The Runelords is that rare book that will remind you why you started reading fantasy in the first place. Much of the setting--and even some of the story--is conventional fantasy fare, but David Farland, aside from being a masterful storyteller, has built his world around a complex and thought-provoking social system involving the exchange of "endowments." Attributes such as stamina, grace, and wit are a currency: a vassal may help his lord by endowing him with all of his strength, for instance, and in turn the vassal comes under the lord's care as his "dedicate," too weak to even walk. A Runelord might have hundreds of such endowments, giving him superhuman senses and abilities, but he then must care for the hundreds that he has deprived of strength, or beauty, or sight.
Runelords excels because this novel idea is not mere window dressing--Farland uses it to explore fundamental questions of life and morality. The story's hero, the young Runelord Gaborn, struggles to define his role in this "shameful economy" while keeping his commitments to himself, to his people, to the woman he loves, and to the earth itself. We end up asking ourselves the same questions: Should you choose your friends based on insight or virtue? Is it better to be just or good? Competent fantasy lets you escape to adventure in faraway lands, but exceptional fantasy makes sure you have something to think about when you get back. Runelords accomplishes the latter. --Paul Hughes [via]
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- The Runelords: ISBN 0812541626 (0-8125-4162-6)
Softcover, Tor Books - The Runelords: ISBN 0312870981 (0-312-87098-1)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom - The Runelords: ISBN 0312866534 (0-312-86653-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - The Runelords: ISBN 0606168834 (0-606-16883-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media - The Runelords: ISBN 0765356457 (0-7653-5645-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
- The Runelords: ISBN 0812541626 (0-8125-4162-6)
Runelords 9Cby David FarlandISBN 031286745X (0-312-86745-X)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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Sons of the Oakby David FarlandISBN 0765341085 (0-7653-4108-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Sons of the Oak: Runelords 5 B Bookclubby David FarlandISBN 0356247112 (0-356-24711-2)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Sum of All Menby David FarlandISBN 067102261X (0-671-02261-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sum of All Men'Book summary:The first book of The Runelords, an epic heroic fantasy in the bestselling mode of David Eddings
Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as major monuments, towering above the rest of the category. Authors of those works, such as Stephen R. Donaldson and J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind, come immediately to mind. Now add to that list David Farland, whose epic begins in The Runelords.
Young Prince Gabon, a Runelord prince who has received endowments of strength and perception according to the system of magic that works in this world, is traveling in disguise with his warrior-guard, Borenson, to the fiefdom of his father's friend King Sylvarresta to ask for the hand of his daughter, lome, in marriage. But as they stop on the way in a market town, they meet a beautiful woman, Myrrima, who catches the eye of Borenson. The prince, seeing this and having a sudden and unusual intuition of her honor and loyalty, encourages Borenson in immediate courtship.
As he sits in a tavern, Gaborn notices two foreign assassins, powerful and well-trained men who should not be there, who head out toward Sylvarresta.
And in a moment, his happy journey turns into a perilous race to warn the King of deadly danger, a danger that seems local but escalates with astonishing speed to such a magnitude and scope that all human life is threatened. Monstrous evil is loose among men and in the world.
So begins the fantasy epic of The Runelords.
"When I reached the end of this first volume, The Runelords, and saw grace arise from a devastating battlefield where too many great hearts lay dead, Farland had earned the tears that came to my eyes. It was not sentiment but epiphany".-- Orson Scott Card, Author of Alvin Maker
"This is a major talent". -- Fantasy and Science Fiction [via]
Wizardbornby David FarlandISBN 0671029509 (0-671-02950-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Worldbinderby David FarlandISBN 0765355841 (0-7653-5584-1)
Softcover, Tor Fantasy
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Worlds Of The Golden Queenby David FarlandISBN 0765313154 (0-7653-1315-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Wyrmling Hordeby David FarlandISBN 0765316668 (0-7653-1666-8)
Hardcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wyrmling Horde'Book summary:[via]The Saga of the Runelords is written in the finest tradition of Tolkien and other works that rise above the fantasy genre to special and individual heights.
Now the epic story continues: at the end of Worldbinder, Fallion Orden, son of Gaborn, was imprisoned on a strange and fantastic world that he created by combining two alternate realities. It's a world brimming with dark magic, ruled by a creature of unrelenting evil who is gathering monstrous armies from a dozen planets in a bid to conquer the universe. Only Fallion has the power to mend the worlds, but at the heart of a city that is a vast prison, he lies in shackles. The forces of evil are growing and will soon rage across the heavens. Now, Fallion's allies must risk everything in an attempt to free him from the wyrmling horde.More editions of The Wyrmling Horde:
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