I love Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman. The original Dragonlance trilogy is one of favorite in all of fantasy. I do want to say the Sovereign Stone trilogy is highly underrated. I really enjoyed the world they created with Larry Elmore. It doesn’t get enough love from reviewers so I’m glad you’ll be reviewing them.
I LOVED THIS VIDEO, BRIAN! I've been a HUGE MARGARET WEIS & TRACY HICKMAN FAN for 40+ years now! Dragonlance had the same affect on me, as it did on you! Plus, I've read most of their other stuff, too!
Hey Brian, I know this is primarily a book review channel but I would love for you to showcase some of the fantasy art that you've done. I saw some of your wildlife paintings for sale online and they're really awesome. Also, I'm curious as to why you didn't paint the covers for your own books as you clearly have the talent to do so...
yes sir .. watched to the end. I too snapped up that first red paperback, the others were Penguin editions without Elmore's superb covers.. not that it mattered, I read the pants off them then upgraded to the hardcover collector editions TSR pumped out to cash in on the ravenous readership, glad they did, those hardcovers have worn well. Weis & Hickman, they write great fantasy stories, Dragonlance is my favourite epic quest adventure, its easy to understand, its fun, its action packed entertainment. Lost Chronicles trilogy I dont have or the new Dragons of Deceit, but I will.
I watched till the end! i have perserverance! ive had the first 3 books you mention in my garage for 10 years and never read them. ill pick them up when im done reading my first run through wheel of time.
Nice collection. Most of these are out-of-print; one cannot just go and buy them new at Amazon for a decent price. I finally found ...Autumn Twilight in a used book store the other day, after searching for a couple of months. The sickening thing is I had all of these in my youth and sold them for lack of shelf space. I admire your collection.
Oh man, the first 4 minutes of this video has made me so happy! Haha. Damn, I love the Chronicles. I was shocked when I waaaay later read Summer Flame and loved it!
Oh wow! Just got to the part where you said you didn't read it! Tasslehoff is as funny as ever, man. I'm actually reading Vanished Moon(I think it's called) now.
Great to see your enthusiasm, which pretty much mirrors mine. I loved the set up for Death Gate with the first four novels but it never really paid off in the last three. Ps there is a fourth Star of Guardians novel (Ghost Legion).
I actually read the Death Gate Cycle before reading Dragonlance. To this day my favourite series ever is the DGC. I'm listening to first book in audio format currently!
I watched until you said to leave a comment, just saying. I LOVED the Dragonlance chronicles when I was younger too!!! The Majere brothers were my favorite characters. I haven't read the newest ones that ends in Dragons of the Hourglass Mage... maybe I'm due for a reread, it's been decades since I read them. Deathgate was so good, I had so much fun with those from what I remember I look forward to your reviews! Also, the Dragons of a Vanished Sun, Forgotten Moon, etc are good. They start off pretty different than the original trilogies (much less magic for story reasons) but it was really good from what I remember. You're making me want to go back and reread all of the Dragonlance stuff god damn it... lmao And if your books are inspired by Dragonlance I want to read them even more....maybe I can convince the hubby to let me break the book buying ban.... who needs money to move when there are awesome books to buy? :-P
Watched to the point of writing a comment. I read the chronicles a while ago but never continued to read them, now I plan to go back and read them and then continue on to legends. Great video!
I persevered! Your channel rocks. I'm a new viewer but I've already purchased a number of your recommendations. I also began obsessively to cover my paperbacks with contact paper, lol. That's a brilliant idea! I use the plastic covers for hardbacks, but never thought of using contact paper for PBs.
Love love love this review. I notice they are all fantasy EXCEPT Margaret's solo venture. What a legacy! They will go down in the history of fantasy writing. Query: have you covered these with that plastic contact paper? Their spines look beautiful.
Great collection, Mr. D. I have a few of their works as well, though I have yet to dive in. Interestingly, my copies of the original 3 have updated cover art by Matt Sawicki. Looks like they were reprinted by Wizards of the Coast, I guess. (Whatever that is. Pardon my ignorance.) Either way, they are nice covers.
I want to say I discovered Dragonlance in high school, age 15, 1992. It was the covers. The library had a whole colorful row of them. Chronicles. Legends. Tales. Heroes. That was all that was out at that time. After high school I stopped reading fantasy and shifted to nonfiction topics. Now 30 years later I'm collecting an interesting selection from the now 200 Dragonlance novels. I focus on Raistlin and Kitiara and any novels about the order of wizards.
Larry Elmore is the GOAT. It would have been a dream come true if he came out of retirement just to do the covers for the new book Dragons of Deceit and the next 2 books. The chronicles and legends cover pale in comparison to the original. Love Dragonlance!
I devoured Weis and Hickman when I was a kid! I might have been the only kid in the world whose parents confiscated my books so I'd come to watch TV with the family. Good times! Good to see them getting some love.
This is such an awesome video Brian! I haven’t read any of their books except the Death Gate Cycle, and for that I just finished book 4 - Serpent Mage. Let me tell you, it only gets better and better after Dragon Wing. I can’t wait to read the rest of their catalogue.
"Perseverance!" I grew up loving Dragonlance and Death Gate - my older brother was obsessed, he had *all* MW & TH books so I could have gotten into these other series if I was as dedicated a reader - I will though. Before you start "Dragons of Summer Flame", you should really track down "the Second Generation" - an anthology of novellas which properly sets up Summer Flame's characters. Summer Flame was supposed to be a trilogy but TSR suddenly said you have to cram it into one - so the vision was a little compromised...rather needs all the support it can get. Then enjoy the ride of War of Souls...Unless you want the even bigger picture, then first get the Raistlin Chronicles, and the Lost Chronicles, which fills in many of the Chronicles gaps. And if you want to go beyond Weis and Hickman; the Kingpriest Trillogy by Chris Pierson is such an epic read - though it's supper rare now - in fact any thing by him or Richard Knaak is worth your time. Many of the over 200 Dragonlance books churned out are not - though if if I could read at your speed I might read em all.
Similar to you the dragonlance books had a huge impact on me growing up, read them a ton, over and over again, in fact my first tattoo is Raistlin from the cover of Dragons of Spring Dawning. Loved the video.
There are five Darksword books. One is just supplemental stuff and not a novel. The fifth was released ten years after the third and functions as a sequel. I had no idea. I started a Weis collection about a year ago, I count 66 authored or coauthored books in her bibliography. I will collect Hickman as well, sixty+ as well. 100 books between them maybe.
Cool video I just started reading Dragonlance Chronicles for the first time ever this month. I had no idea they wrote so many books together. So if i love them, I guess there is plenty to read.
Dragonlance was what started my love of fantasy. I actually started with the War of Souls trilogy and loved it despite the constant mentions of characters and events from the previous books. I later went back and read the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and those were great as well. You definitely got me wanting to revisit these. PERSEVERANCE
I love the Dragonlance Chronicles and I've read the series twice. I definitely plan to read them again. I read the Legends trilogy several years ago. I enjoyed it, but not as much as the Chronicles. I love your videos Brian.
watched to the point where you siad leave a comment. My first fantasy novels were the death gate cycle. Im not sure if you've finished the series yet but its stuck with me and its an absolutly amazing series, till one of my favorites over 15 years after i originally read them. ive also read one of Margaret Wiess solo works though i can t recall the name of it. Currently 9im reading dragons of deciet and im almost finished with it
Great collection! I really enjoyed the Death gate cycle! A minor correction - I think Stephen Youll illustrated the last two covers in that series. However the previous ones was made by Keith!
great collection, my favorite is not there - soulforge by Margaret Weis (And the follow up Brother in arms by her and Don Perrin (I think). They tell the story of raistlin (and camaron) from their infancy until they meet the companions. Soulforge is one my favorite novels of all time. Summer flame is indeed a sequel of 6, most of the events connect there. More recently they wrote three more novels (one for each "season" that are inbetween scenes of autumn and winter and winter and pring, etc. There is going to be a new series in dragonlance
I started reading Weis and Hickman in junior high. I can’t find them now. So sad the cover art is different now. By far my favorite dragons in art are Elmore dragons. And yes I have perseverance 😂
the dragons of vanish moon and so on, are a sequel of summer flame but 20 years in the future and we follow the sons of our main characters. I really loved them.
Death Gate Cycle is probably my favorite series The Sovereign Stone series was a little odd. If I remember correctly, I did not care for the first book. Fortunately, the second and third book went in a different direction and had some great characters. I just started on the Rose of the Prophets.
I have collected many Dragonlance books over the years. I have been hesitant to read them. As I get older, I think perhaps I won't enjoy them as much, as I would, if I first read them at a younger age. On a positive note, thanks to you I'm going to start Dragonlance Chronicles book 1. The sci fi series sounds amazing. Always looking for a good sci-fi. By the way "I left a comment" lol.
Sorry to comment on an older video but I just picked up Margarete Wises Stars of the guardian series so checked to see if you had covered them. Did you know there is 4 in the series? Was the 4th written a long time after as I only brought the first three from a used book store. Also would LOVE to see individual reviews on them when you get a chance. Thanks Brian
I have all 4 books in the series. The 4th is titled "Ghost Legion" & was published 2 years after "King's Sacrifice", so not that long after, and if memory serves, picks up not long after the events of the original trilogy. The inner cover shows that it came out at about the same time as Death Gate Cycle #5 "The Hand of Chaos", the inner cover of Ghost Legion stating that HoC is "Now available in Hardcover!"
I honestly had no idea that Weis and Hickman wrote so many books. I finished a reread of the DragonLance Legends series last month and thoroughly enjoyed it. I look forward to hearing about what you think about the Death Gate Cycle as I’ve heard good things.
I watched until the point you said have perseverance became defiant and stopped the video. Otherwise another great review. A lot of my friends loved the Dragonlance novels I took another path and read a lot of the Forgotten Realms books. One day I’ll get around to these. Also I did meet margaret weis but have never read a book by her. Huh
I got three books on dragonlance not books 1,2 and 3 but the only books they has was in between them like books 3 and some 2 and that no use to read when it will give spoilers and I dont like them, I bought them when I was in holiday they were published in 1980s I got them and and idler nook shop that for non uk people known as an antiques shop for books and the pages werent looking brittle old and yellowing but inside them was yellowing with age, they look like a dog has been attaching them or they went to prison and had a hell of a time they look like they been read to death, and because I was so excited to see dragonlance books I still bought them and now im thinking to give them in to the nearest charity shop, I mean there still readable but, me I think if your going to read a good book it has to be in good shape.
Durfee, I need to stop watching your videos. I don't know what to do with my TBR. It's a bloated mess. I have never read anything by these authors but now I feel I need to add them as well.
I love Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman. The original Dragonlance trilogy is one of favorite in all of fantasy. I do want to say the Sovereign Stone trilogy is highly underrated. I really enjoyed the world they created with Larry Elmore. It doesn’t get enough love from reviewers so I’m glad you’ll be reviewing them.
There are some nice hardcover anthologies, but we do have that sentimental attachment to the paperbacks of our young years.
I LOVED THIS VIDEO, BRIAN! I've been a HUGE MARGARET WEIS & TRACY HICKMAN FAN for 40+ years now! Dragonlance had the same affect on me, as it did on you! Plus, I've read most of their other stuff, too!
Hey Brian, I know this is primarily a book review channel but I would love for you to showcase some of the fantasy art that you've done. I saw some of your wildlife paintings for sale online and they're really awesome. Also, I'm curious as to why you didn't paint the covers for your own books as you clearly have the talent to do so...
Great collection 👍
Finally someone gives Dragonlance some love. The Chronicles got me into reading. Legends are in my top 3 trilogies I've ever read.
yes sir .. watched to the end. I too snapped up that first red paperback, the others were Penguin editions without Elmore's superb covers.. not that it mattered, I read the pants off them then upgraded to the hardcover collector editions TSR pumped out to cash in on the ravenous readership, glad they did, those hardcovers have worn well. Weis & Hickman, they write great fantasy stories, Dragonlance is my favourite epic quest adventure, its easy to understand, its fun, its action packed entertainment. Lost Chronicles trilogy I dont have or the new Dragons of Deceit, but I will.
I can't wait to get a collection of these going
I watched till the end! i have perserverance! ive had the first 3 books you mention in my garage for 10 years and never read them. ill pick them up when im done reading my first run through wheel of time.
Nice collection. Most of these are out-of-print; one cannot just go and buy them new at Amazon for a decent price. I finally found ...Autumn Twilight in a used book store the other day, after searching for a couple of months. The sickening thing is I had all of these in my youth and sold them for lack of shelf space. I admire your collection.
I feel exactly the way you do about those first 3 dragonlance books. And larry elmore is simply the best!
I watched to the point where you said leave a comment. I love your vids.
Made it to the end, cuz that is when you say all the important stuff....also just bought your first book.
Oh man, the first 4 minutes of this video has made me so happy! Haha. Damn, I love the Chronicles. I was shocked when I waaaay later read Summer Flame and loved it!
Oh wow! Just got to the part where you said you didn't read it! Tasslehoff is as funny as ever, man. I'm actually reading Vanished Moon(I think it's called) now.
Also, Soulforge is incredible.
Bro, you need Soulforge! Haha. Ok, I'll stop.
Awesome
Love your videos, you just seem so down to earth and you have so much knowledge of fantasy books. Just bought your trilogy. I am sure I will love it
Thanks
Great to see your enthusiasm, which pretty much mirrors mine. I loved the set up for Death Gate with the first four novels but it never really paid off in the last three. Ps there is a fourth Star of Guardians novel (Ghost Legion).
Dragonlance and Death Gate were my favourite series as a kid. Such great memories of the imaginative worlds and characters
I actually read the Death Gate Cycle before reading Dragonlance. To this day my favourite series ever is the DGC. I'm listening to first book in audio format currently!
Oh man, seeing the OG Legends Covers w/the Larry Elmore art, now that's something special!
I watched until you said to leave a comment, just saying.
I LOVED the Dragonlance chronicles when I was younger too!!! The Majere brothers were my favorite characters. I haven't read the newest ones that ends in Dragons of the Hourglass Mage... maybe I'm due for a reread, it's been decades since I read them. Deathgate was so good, I had so much fun with those from what I remember I look forward to your reviews! Also, the Dragons of a Vanished Sun, Forgotten Moon, etc are good. They start off pretty different than the original trilogies (much less magic for story reasons) but it was really good from what I remember. You're making me want to go back and reread all of the Dragonlance stuff god damn it... lmao And if your books are inspired by Dragonlance I want to read them even more....maybe I can convince the hubby to let me break the book buying ban.... who needs money to move when there are awesome books to buy? :-P
Watched to the point of writing a comment. I read the chronicles a while ago but never continued to read them, now I plan to go back and read them and then continue on to legends. Great video!
I persevered! Your channel rocks. I'm a new viewer but I've already purchased a number of your recommendations. I also began obsessively to cover my paperbacks with contact paper, lol. That's a brilliant idea! I use the plastic covers for hardbacks, but never thought of using contact paper for PBs.
Love love love this review. I notice they are all fantasy EXCEPT Margaret's solo venture. What a legacy! They will go down in the history of fantasy writing. Query: have you covered these with that plastic contact paper? Their spines look beautiful.
One of my all time favorite authors. I reread the first trilogy every few years. Need to look at their other stuff now.
Great collection, Mr. D. I have a few of their works as well, though I have yet to dive in. Interestingly, my copies of the original 3 have updated cover art by Matt Sawicki. Looks like they were reprinted by Wizards of the Coast, I guess. (Whatever that is. Pardon my ignorance.) Either way, they are nice covers.
I just found the rose of the prophet trilogy for £1 each so was watching this to get your thoughts on them. Excited to start now.
I want to say I discovered Dragonlance in high school, age 15, 1992. It was the covers. The library had a whole colorful row of them. Chronicles. Legends. Tales. Heroes. That was all that was out at that time. After high school I stopped reading fantasy and shifted to nonfiction topics. Now 30 years later I'm collecting an interesting selection from the now 200 Dragonlance novels. I focus on Raistlin and Kitiara and any novels about the order of wizards.
I persevered! And yes, I also devoured Dragonlance books as a young teen, they were my favorites for so long! Looking forward to their new series. :-)
Larry Elmore is the GOAT. It would have been a dream come true if he came out of retirement just to do the covers for the new book Dragons of Deceit and the next 2 books. The chronicles and legends cover pale in comparison to the original. Love Dragonlance!
I watched to the point where you said "If you watched this far, leave a comment." Perseverence FTW!
I devoured Weis and Hickman when I was a kid! I might have been the only kid in the world whose parents confiscated my books so I'd come to watch TV with the family. Good times! Good to see them getting some love.
This is such an awesome video Brian! I haven’t read any of their books except the Death Gate Cycle, and for that I just finished book 4 - Serpent Mage. Let me tell you, it only gets better and better after Dragon Wing. I can’t wait to read the rest of their catalogue.
"Perseverance!"
I grew up loving Dragonlance and Death Gate - my older brother was obsessed, he had *all* MW & TH books so I could have gotten into these other series if I was as dedicated a reader - I will though.
Before you start "Dragons of Summer Flame", you should really track down "the Second Generation" - an anthology of novellas which properly sets up Summer Flame's characters. Summer Flame was supposed to be a trilogy but TSR suddenly said you have to cram it into one - so the vision was a little compromised...rather needs all the support it can get. Then enjoy the ride of War of Souls...Unless you want the even bigger picture, then first get the Raistlin Chronicles, and the Lost Chronicles, which fills in many of the Chronicles gaps.
And if you want to go beyond Weis and Hickman; the Kingpriest Trillogy by Chris Pierson is such an epic read - though it's supper rare now - in fact any thing by him or Richard Knaak is worth your time. Many of the over 200 Dragonlance books churned out are not - though if if I could read at your speed I might read em all.
Similar to you the dragonlance books had a huge impact on me growing up, read them a ton, over and over again, in fact my first tattoo is Raistlin from the cover of Dragons of Spring Dawning. Loved the video.
There are five Darksword books. One is just supplemental stuff and not a novel. The fifth was released ten years after the third and functions as a sequel. I had no idea. I started a Weis collection about a year ago, I count 66 authored or coauthored books in her bibliography. I will collect Hickman as well, sixty+ as well. 100 books between them maybe.
Just finished The Blackest Heart! Can’t wait for Book 3.
I really loved Well of Darkness
I miss my original dragon lance prints. I have newer these days.
Cool video I just started reading Dragonlance Chronicles for the first time ever this month. I had no idea they wrote so many books together. So if i love them, I guess there is plenty to read.
Dragonlance was what started my love of fantasy. I actually started with the War of Souls trilogy and loved it despite the constant mentions of characters and events from the previous books. I later went back and read the Chronicles and Legends trilogies and those were great as well. You definitely got me wanting to revisit these. PERSEVERANCE
I love the Dragonlance Chronicles and I've read the series twice. I definitely plan to read them again. I read the Legends trilogy several years ago. I enjoyed it, but not as much as the Chronicles. I love your videos Brian.
watched to the point where you siad leave a comment.
My first fantasy novels were the death gate cycle. Im not sure if you've finished the series yet but its stuck with me and its an absolutly amazing series, till one of my favorites over 15 years after i originally read them. ive also read one of Margaret Wiess solo works though i can t recall the name of it. Currently 9im reading dragons of deciet and im almost finished with it
Great collection! I really enjoyed the Death gate cycle!
A minor correction - I think Stephen Youll illustrated the last two covers in that series. However the previous ones was made by Keith!
great collection, my favorite is not there - soulforge by Margaret Weis (And the follow up Brother in arms by her and Don Perrin (I think). They tell the story of raistlin (and camaron) from their infancy until they meet the companions. Soulforge is one my favorite novels of all time. Summer flame is indeed a sequel of 6, most of the events connect there. More recently they wrote three more novels (one for each "season" that are inbetween scenes of autumn and winter and winter and pring, etc. There is going to be a new series in dragonlance
I started reading Weis and Hickman in junior high. I can’t find them now. So sad the cover art is different now. By far my favorite dragons in art are Elmore dragons.
And yes I have perseverance 😂
You gotta finish the Death Gate Cycle. It's even better than Dragonlance! It is my all time favorite fantasy saga.
I loved the first 3 trilogies too. I have even repurchased the 1st trilogy on audible. I miss $2 books =)
the dragons of vanish moon and so on, are a sequel of summer flame but 20 years in the future and we follow the sons of our main characters. I really loved them.
Death Gate Cycle is probably my favorite series The Sovereign Stone series was a little odd. If I remember correctly, I did not care for the first book. Fortunately, the second and third book went in a different direction and had some great characters. I just started on the Rose of the Prophets.
I have collected many Dragonlance books over the years. I have been hesitant to read them. As I get older, I think perhaps I won't enjoy them as much, as I would, if I first read them at a younger age. On a positive note, thanks to you I'm going to start Dragonlance Chronicles book 1. The sci fi series sounds amazing. Always looking for a good sci-fi. By the way "I left a comment" lol.
Sorry to comment on an older video but I just picked up Margarete Wises Stars of the guardian series so checked to see if you had covered them. Did you know there is 4 in the series? Was the 4th written a long time after as I only brought the first three from a used book store. Also would LOVE to see individual reviews on them when you get a chance. Thanks Brian
I have all 4 books in the series. The 4th is titled "Ghost Legion" & was published 2 years after "King's Sacrifice", so not that long after, and if memory serves, picks up not long after the events of the original trilogy. The inner cover shows that it came out at about the same time as Death Gate Cycle #5 "The Hand of Chaos", the inner cover of Ghost Legion stating that HoC is "Now available in Hardcover!"
I honestly had no idea that Weis and Hickman wrote so many books. I finished a reread of the DragonLance Legends series last month and thoroughly enjoyed it. I look forward to hearing about what you think about the Death Gate Cycle as I’ve heard good things.
Oh and I watched until you said leave a comment lol
I watched until the point you said have perseverance became defiant and stopped the video. Otherwise another great review. A lot of my friends loved the Dragonlance novels I took another path and read a lot of the Forgotten Realms books. One day I’ll get around to these. Also I did meet margaret weis but have never read a book by her. Huh
Before Summer Flame you'll want to read The Second Generation.
I got three books on dragonlance not books 1,2 and 3 but the only books they has was in between them like books 3 and some 2 and that no use to read when it will give spoilers and I dont like them, I bought them when I was in holiday they were published in 1980s I got them and and idler nook shop that for non uk people known as an antiques shop for books and the pages werent looking brittle old and yellowing but inside them was yellowing with age, they look like a dog has been attaching them or they went to prison and had a hell of a time they look like they been read to death, and because I was so excited to see dragonlance books I still bought them and now im thinking to give them in to the nearest charity shop, I mean there still readable but, me I think if your going to read a good book it has to be in good shape.
Death gate cycle rulez!
watched it until you said "leave a comment" ;D
I watched to the point that you said leave a comment. This is a comment.
I wanted to like The Death Gate Cycle, but it just didn’t pay off for me. An ambitious idea that fell flat IMO. Other people think it’s awesome.
Leave a comment 😂
Durfee, I need to stop watching your videos. I don't know what to do with my TBR. It's a bloated mess. I have never read anything by these authors but now I feel I need to add them as well.