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Set in Williams New York Times bestselling fantasy world, the second book of The Last King of Osten Ard returns to the trials of King Simon and Queen Miriamele as threats to their kingdom loom...
The kingdoms of Osten Ard have been at peace for decades, but now, the threat of a new war grows to nightmarish proportions.
Simon and Miriamele, royal husband and wife, face danger from every side. Their allies in Hernystir have made a pact with the dreadful Queen of the Norns to allow her armies to cross into mortal lands. The ancient, powerful nation of Nabban is on the verge of bloody civil war, and the fierce nomads of the Thrithings grasslands have begun to mobilize, united by superstitious fervor and their age-old hatred of the city-dwellers. But as the countries and peoples of the High Ward bicker among themselves, battle, bloodshed, and dark magics threaten to pull civilizations to pieces. And over it all looms the mystery of the Witchwood Crown, the deadly puzzle that Simon, Miriamele, and their allies must solve if they wish to survive.
But as the kingdoms of Osten Ard are torn apart by fear and greed, a few individuals will fight for their own lives and destiniesnot yet aware that the survival of everything depends on them.
ReviewInspired me to write my own seven-book trilogy.... Its one of my favorite fantasy series. George R. R. Martin, New York Times -bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire
Groundbreaking.... Changed how people thought of the genre, and paved the way for so much modern fantasy. Including mine. Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times -bestselling author of The Name of the Wind
Tad Williams is a master storyteller, and the Osten Ard books are his masterpiece. Williams return to Osten Ard is every bit as compelling, deep, and fully-rendered as the first trilogy , and he continues to write with the experience and polish of an author at the top of his game. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times -bestselling author of Mistborn
Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is one of the great fantasy epics of all time.
Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon
Building upon the revered history of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Williams has outdone himself by penning a 700-plus page novel that is virtually un-put-down-able.... Williams grand-scale storytelling mastery is on full display here. Not just utterly readable an instant fantasy classic. Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Readers who delight in losing themselves in long complex tales of epic fantasy will be in their element here, and there is the promise of much more to come in future volumes. Locus
Panoramic, vigorous, often moving.... Williams adroitly weaves together the tales...heralding a suitably epic and glorious conclusion. Publishers Weekly
Highly Recommended. [Williams] draws on many mythologies for the background of his fantasy epic...story spiced with political intrigue and strong appealing heroes. Library Journal
A grand fantasy on a scale approaching Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. Cincinnati Post
About the Author
Tad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. His genre-creating (and genre-busting) books have sold tens of millions worldwide. His works include the worlds of Otherland, Shadowmarch, and Osten Ardincluding the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, and The Last King of Osten Ard seriesas well as standalone novels Tailchasers Song and The War of the Flowers. His considerable output of epic fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy, comics, and more have strongly influenced a generation of writers. Tad and his family live in the Santa Cruz mountains in a suitably strange and beautiful house.
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The Finest in Imaginative Fiction by
TAD WILLIAMS
MEMORY, SORROW AND THORN
THE DRAGONBONE CHAIR
STONE OF FAREWELL
TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER
THE LAST KING OF OSTEN ARD
THE WITCHWOOD CROWN
EMPIRE OF GRASS
THE NAVIGATORS CHILDREN*
THE HEART OF WHAT WAS LOST
* * *
THE BOBBY DOLLAR NOVELS
THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN
HAPPY HOUR IN HELL
SLEEPING LATE ON JUDGEMENT DAY
SHADOWMARCH
SHADOWMARCH
SHADOWPLAY
SHADOWRISE
SHADOWHEART
OTHERLAND
CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW
RIVER OF BLUE FIRE
MOUNTAIN OF BLACK GLASS
SEA OF SILVER LIGHT
TAILCHASERS SONG
THE WAR OF THE FLOWERS
*Coming soon from DAW
Copyright 2019 Beale Williams Enterprise.
All Rights Reserved.
Jacket art by Michael Whelan.
Jacket design by Adam Auerbach.
Maps by Isaac Stewart.
Edited by Betsy Wollheim and Sheila E. Gilbert
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If you want to see the full dedication, its in The Witchwood Crown.
If you dont have your copy on hand at the moment, Ill summarize:
This entire storyseriestrilogywhatever you want to call itis dedicated to my editors (and friends) Betsy Wollheim and Sheila Gilbert, and to my wife (and best friend) Deborah Beale, without all of whom my life would have been different and much less happy.
The list of people who have usefully influenced my return to Osten Ard is long, and I apologize in advance if I have forgotten anyone.
Ylva von Lhneysen, Ron Hyde, Angela Welchel, Jeremy Erman, Cindy Squires, and Linda van der Pal all offered indispensable suggestions, corrections, and the occasional smack in the snoot (when I got something really wrong) about the early drafts of the book.
Angela Welchel and Cindy Yan put in a huge amount of creativity and work helping us with other, Osten-Ard-related projects.
Ylva and Ron wrote the synopsis of The Witchwood Crown. I edited it a little. Also, Ylva, Ron, and Angela Welchel worked together make the appendix at the end of the book, which is full of chewy informational goodness.
And of course, Ylva and Ron have been godparents to these books since the beginning, because in many ways they (and the other fine humans mentioned above) know Osten Ard better than I do. Hey, I took thirty years off before returning, what do you expect?
In fact, oh, so many people deserve my thanks again this time, because makin books aint easy!
Lisa Tveit is the social media warrior making sure that tadwilliams.com remains a bastion of silliness and Tadalia on the internet. And my many friends on the TW Message Board keep my courage up during dark nights of the soul where I wonder if anyone cares about what Im doing.
Olaf Keith contributes a great deal to the website and also helps me and my work in a number of other ways, and Im always grateful for his kindness.
Marylou Capes-Platt did her usual excellent job of copyediting on Empire of Grass, as well as slipping in the occasional and very welcome note of encouragement.
Michael Whelan painted another fantastic cover. Dont mean to make it sound like its something I take for granted, no matter how often it has happened. I never do.
Isaac Stewart (with a lot of feedback from ace cryptogeographer Ron Hyde) has again drawn brilliant maps and contributed in many other ways.
Joshua Starr, as always, handled the assembly side of things with his usual skill and good nature.
My agent Matt Bialer takes care of me and my work, and reminds me about things like not biting careless reviewers, no matter how much they might deserve it.
My overseas publishers, especially Stephan Askani of Klett-Cotta in Germany and Oliver Johnson of Hodder and Stoughton in the UK, have been hugely supportive, as always.
And, as mentioned at length in the dedications, none of this would have turned out anywhere near as well without my editor/publishers, Sheila Gilbert and Betsy Wollheim, and my writer/collaborator/partner in crime and life, Deborah Beale.
Thank you, all you heroes.
More than thirty years have passed in Osten Ard since the end of the Storm Kings deadly, magical wara war that nearly doomed mankind. King Simon and Queen Miriamele, scarcely more than children when the Storm King was defeated, now rule over the human nations from the High Throne, but they have lost touch with their onetime allies, the immortal Sithi folk. Then Tanahaya, the first Sithi envoy since the end of the war, is ambushed on her way to the Hayholt, the ancient castle that is the seat of the High Throne.
While Tiamak, scholar and close friend of the king and queen, works with his wife Thela to save Tanahayas life, Queen Miriamele and King Simon are away from the castle on a royal progress. Currently they are visiting the neighboring country of Hernystir and its King Hugh as part of a royal progress to the north, where Simon and Miriamele are troubled by the behavior of Hugh and his new love, the mysterious Lady Tylleth. Dowager queen Inahwen warns the royal couples advisor Count Eolair that King Hugh and Tylleth have revived worship of the Morriga, an ancient, dark, and bloodstained Hernystiri goddess.
Even while accompanying the royal family on their progress, Prince Morgan, the seventeen year old grandson of Simon and Miriamele, spends his days drinking and womanizing with his knightly companions Astrian, Olveris and old Porto. Morgans father, Prince John Josuathe only child of Simon and Miriameledied of a strange illness some years earlier, leaving his wife Idela a widow, Morgan and his younger sister Lillia fatherless, and the king and queen, John Josuas royal parents, still grieving.
When not nursing the poisoned Sithi envoy, royal counselor Tiamak is collecting books for a library to commemorate the late John Josua, but when his helper Brother Etan investigates some of the dead princes possessions, he discovers a banned and dangerous volume, A Treatise on the Aetheric Whispers. Tiamak is filled with foreboding, because the Treatise once belonged to the wizard Pryrates
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