Dragonships
by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Welcome to the World of Dragonships!
Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war.
But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise.
Book 1: Bones of the Dragon
Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creation… and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons.
It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddess’s champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery–for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption.
Filled with heroes and heroines young and old and exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, this is a series that fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into the bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time.
Book 2: Secrets of the Dragon will be available in 2010. This will be followed by four additional books in this series.
Themocracy
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Mr. Hickman, as a fellow LDS member, I have always enjoyed your novels precisely because they had very little cursing in them. I am about a quarter of the way through “Bones of the Dragon” and have been very disappointed with how much language there has been. The sad part about this is that it is not needed to make the book enjoyable and entertaining. I hope that the next book in the series has a lot less language or this is one huge fan of yours that will not be reading it. Thanks.
And thank you, Steven for your comments. One of the realities of collaboration is that one does not have complete control over all aspects of a manuscript. While in my own books — especially of late — I strive to keep all cursing strictly limited if not completely absent from the text.
I can report that such cursing as seems to concern you is markedly diminished in the second book which is about to come out.
Beyond that, I can only assure you that anything penned exclusively by myself or myself and my wife in partnership, will most certainly live up to your standards and expectations.
I totally understand the collaboration issue and not having total control. I think my words may have come across harsher than I meant them to. I definitely was not trying to judge you or put you on the defensive, I was just taken by surprise early on in the book. I have always really enjoyed the books that you and Margaret Weis have written together (I think I have every Dragonlance book you two wrote). I am a huge fan and will continue to be. Thanks!
I think that it was the right word for Horg to use to emphasize the violence without expanding on the details in that scene with Draya.
I am not sure if I forgot or missed something in the book, but is Torval and Skoval the same person? Because…it seems that way. Maybe I am just confused.