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Stephen R. Donaldson

Autor(a) de Lord Foul's Bane

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About the Author

Stephen Donaldson, 1947 - Novelist Stephen Donaldson was born on May 13, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio to James R. Donaldson, a medical missionary, and Mary Ruth Reeder, a prosthetist. His father was an orthopedic surgeon that worked with lepers in India. He lived in India between the ages of three to mostrar mais sixteen and while listening to one of his father's lectures on leprosy, he conceived the legendary Thomas Covenant. Donaldson attended the College of Wooster, Ohio and graduated in 1968. Afterwards, he spent two years being a conscientious objector doing hospital work in Akron and then attended Kent University where he received an M.A. in English. Donaldson's publishing debut was with "Lord Foul's Bane" (1977), which was the first book in the fantasy trilogy entitled The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever. It was named best novel of the year by the British Fantasy Society and received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, in 1979. He followed with the sequel series The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, also set in The Land, starting with "Daughter of Regals," and then the Mordant's Need series with "The Mirror of Her Dreams" and "A Man Rides Through." Donaldson is also the author of the Gap Into series of science fiction adventure that began with "The Real Story" and followed with "Forbidden Knowledge," "A Dark and Hungry God Arises," and "Chaos and Order." In addition to the awards he received for his first novel/series, Donaldson has also received the Balrog Fantasy Award for Best Novel for "The Wounded Land" in 1981 and for "The One Tree" in 1983, the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Novel for "The One Tree" in 1983, the Balrog Fantasy Award for Best Collection for "Daughter of Regals and Other Tales" in 1985, and the Science Fiction Book Club Award for Best Book of the Year for "The Mirror of Her Dreams" in 1988 and "A Man Rides Through" in 1989. He also received The College of Wooster Distinguished Alumni Award in 1989, the WIN/WIN Popular Fiction Readers Choice Award for Favorite Fantasy Author in 1991, the Atlanta Fantasy Fair Award for Outstanding Achievement in 1992 and the President's Award, The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts in 1997. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Stephen R. Donaldson

Lord Foul's Bane (1977) 6,140 exemplares
The Illearth War (1977) 4,575 exemplares
The Power That Preserves (1977) 4,375 exemplares
The Wounded Land (1980) 3,625 exemplares
The One Tree (1982) 3,505 exemplares
White Gold Wielder (1983) 3,464 exemplares
The Mirror of Her Dreams (1986) 2,973 exemplares
A Man Rides Through (1987) 2,536 exemplares
The Runes of the Earth (2004) 2,164 exemplares
The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story (1990) 2,118 exemplares
The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Order (1994) 1,479 exemplares
Daughter of Regals and Other Tales (1984) 1,298 exemplares
Fatal Revenant (2007) 1,280 exemplares
Against All Things Ending (2010) 867 exemplares
Reave the Just and Other Tales (1998) 597 exemplares
Gilden-fire (short story) (1981) 568 exemplares
The Last Dark (2013) 494 exemplares
Seventh Decimate (2017) 236 exemplares
The Man Who Fought Alone (2001) 200 exemplares
Strange Dreams (1993) — Editor — 186 exemplares
The Man Who Killed His Brother (1980) — Autor — 184 exemplares
The King's Justice: Two Novellas (2015) 139 exemplares
The Man Who Risked His Partner (1984) 122 exemplares
Mordant's Need (2007) 109 exemplares
The Man Who Tried to Get Away (1990) 100 exemplares
The War Within (2019) 88 exemplares
The King's Justice [novella] (2016) 28 exemplares
The Augur's Gambit (2016) 25 exemplares
A Man Rides Through, Part 1/2 (1990) 25 exemplares
A Man Rides Through, Part 2/2 (1991) 24 exemplares
The Best of Stephen R. Donaldson (2011) 24 exemplares
The Reed Stephens Novels (2001) 18 exemplares
Daughter of Regals [short story] (1984) 10 exemplares
Mythological Beast (1978) 9 exemplares
The Lady in White (1978) 8 exemplares
The Conqueror Worm (1983) 8 exemplares
Animal Lover (1978) 7 exemplares
What Makes Us Human (1984) 6 exemplares
Ser Visal's Tale (1984) 5 exemplares
Reave the Just {short story} (1992) 4 exemplares
By Any Other Name [novella] (1998) 3 exemplares
The Killing Stroke [novella] (1998) 3 exemplares
Penance [novella] (1998) 3 exemplares
2002 3 exemplares
World Tales 1 exemplar
Moc, která chrání (2000) 1 exemplar
Pitchwife's Battle 1 exemplar
Verbotenes Wissen 1 exemplar
1996 1 exemplar
Le feu de ses passions (1986) 1 exemplar
Lo specchio dei sogni (1996) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

After the King (1991) — Contribuidor — 759 exemplares
The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy (1996) — Contribuidor — 628 exemplares
I Shudder at Your Touch (1991) — Contribuidor — 546 exemplares
Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Volume 1 (2007) — Introdução, algumas edições451 exemplares
Godbody (1986) — Posfácio, algumas edições393 exemplares
Berserker Base (1985) — Contribuidor — 323 exemplares
The 1985 Annual World's Best SF (1985) — Contribuidor — 236 exemplares
Unicorns! (1982) — Contribuidor — 223 exemplares
Gallery of Horror (1983) — Contribuidor — 223 exemplares
The 1986 Annual World's Best SF (1986) — Contribuidor — 215 exemplares
Stellar #4: Science-Fiction Stories (1978) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
Full Spectrum 4 (1993) — Contribuidor — 106 exemplares
Arabesques II (1989) — Contribuidor — 70 exemplares
The Year's Finest Fantasy: Volume 2 (1978) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
The Book of Kings (1995) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
A Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy (1987) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Last Drink Bird Head : A Flash Fiction Anthology for Charity (2009) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Nine Visions, a Book of Fantasies (1983) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
An Anthology of Angels (1996) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Donaldson, Stephen Reeder
Outros nomes
Stephens, Reed
Donaldson, Stephen
Data de nascimento
1947-05-13
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Locais de residência
India
Akron, Ohio, USA
New Jersey, USA
Corrales, New Mexico, USA
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Educação
The College of Wooster (B.A. | English | 1968)
Kent State University (MA|English|1971)
Ocupações
fantasy writer
Organizações
American Contract Bridge League
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
Contributing Editor, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Prémios e menções honrosas
John W. Campbell Award (1979)
The College of Wooster Distinguished Alumni Award (1989)
WIN/WIN Popular Fiction Readers Choice Award for Favorite Fantasy Author (1991)
Atlanta Fantasy Fair Award for Outstanding Achievement (1992)
President's Award, The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (1997)
Agente
Howard Morhaim (Howard Morhaim Literary Agency)

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Born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, Stephen R. Donaldson lived in India (where his father was a medical missionary) until 1963. He graduated from the College of Wooster (Ohio) in 1968, served two years as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, doing hospital work in Akron, then attended Kent State University, where he received his M.A. in English in 1971.After dropping out of his Ph.D. program and moving to New Jersey in order to write fiction, Donaldson made his publishing debut with the first "Covenant" trilogy in 1977. That enabled him to move to a healthier climate. He now lives in New Mexico.The novels for which he is best known have received a number of awards. However, the achievements of which he is most proud are the ones that seemed the most unlikely. In 1993 he received a Doctor of Literature degree from the College of Wooster, and in 1994 he gained a black belt in Shotokan karate from Sensei Mike Heister and Anshin Personal Defense.After completing the five-book, seven-year Gap sequence of science fiction novels, Donaldson spent quite some time "on vacation." However, he has now returned to work. His most recent book prior to The Man Who Fought Alone was a second collection of short fiction, Reave the Just and Other Tales. He is currently hard at work on "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant".

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Definitely better than book 1 because there was a huge section without Thomas Covenant in it, but even the part with him in it at the end wasn't terrible. I'll definitely be finishing the trilogy, but that third book will help me decide whether I do the 2nd trilogy or not.

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When confronted by his daughter and she says she wants to be his lover, what does Covenant say? Not, "eww that's gross you're my daughter.", Not "Well you are hot, but you're my daughter so no." But instead he says, "We can't because I'm a leper." EVEN THOUGH he totally can, because he's not really a leper in the fantasy world. But of course, he has to bring up being a leper. He's worse than a vegan!… (mais)
 
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ragwaine | 31 outras críticas | Mar 4, 2024 |
This was an unexpectedly interesting read.

I have to admit that I was wondering whether or not to pick this one up because of some criticism (heavy adult themes, in lack of better words). I was not sure I had stomach for anything heavy it was said this book contained.

But curiosity won and I read this first entry in the series, and I have to say this is one excellent book.

Story centers around three characters:

- Angus Thermopyle, ruthless pirate, suspected by everyone on the local station to be a criminal but there are no proof of his shady activities. He is proud owner of a deadly starship (akin to Millenium Falcon, packing more than it is visible on the surface) and enjoys spreading rumors and fear wherever he goes. In truth he is very insecure, psychotic and in general sociopath, and it is visible his very life is one noone would want to any living being. Story is told from his perspective and we get to know him the most as story progresses. He is like a wild animal, imagine a prospector/hunter living in the wilds of North West America in 18th and early 19th century, living alone, no human touch or contact and constantly on the lookout for traitors and assassins, never at peace, constantly on the edge. There is no etiquette, no civil correspondence (unless there is fear of immediate reprisal, this is only time when he becomes civil of sort), just raw instinct and hate, lots of hate.
- Morn Hyland is a police woman that ends up ensnared by Angus. She plays a role here of a character through which contact Agnus starts to change. She suffers hideous things from Angus, but in some smaller paragraphs we can see that she is not what we might initially think. She carries some secret (except the obvious one) and we are still to see what is it.
- Nick Succorso - greatest enigma of all three. We are given some pieces of his origin story and it is obvious that he is as devious and deadly than Angus, maybe even more considering that Nick, unlike Angus, is visually appealing an full of charm. Why would he choose to help Morn is in my opinion still not fully disclosed.

Author treats us with some very realistic and dynamic space combat scenes, schemings and counter-schemings between our characters. Overall we are given a glimpse of a very complex world, controlled by all means and purposes by asteroid mining companies and endangered by ruthless and merciless pirates. And then we have a mysterious force, some unspoken danger acting in the background, still undefined.

Scenes of Angus' violence over Morn are present, but except two rather graphic and violent scenes - that were kept short - all the other violent actions take place in Angus' mind alone.
As for the content If you ever read any cowboy westerns where civilians end up as targets of roaming gangs I think you know what to expect (some recent epic fantasy books (Game of Thrones is implied here together with Berserker series) are not that far from similar scenes). Nothing too graphic (since this is not that kind of book), but with impactful presentation of the violence. Goal seems to be to show more Angus' changes of behavior then shock the reader with constant violations.

If this was a standalone novel it would be great. Since it is part of the series I now need to chase down the rest of the books to see how it ends (author's Afterword truly hooked me up).

Highly recommended.
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Zare | 29 outras críticas | Feb 28, 2024 |
 
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jdowner | 85 outras críticas | Feb 17, 2024 |
Read this a long time ago, didn't take any notes but I did give it 4 stars.

This time it's getting 2 stars. I have never been into the "reluctant hero" archetype and Thomas Covenant is the ULTIMATE reluctant hero. All he does through the entire book is complain and yell at people. There were a very few instances when he was talking when you don't want to punch him in the throat, I just don't understand why an author would write this kind of main character. And the fact that he seems to think he's dreaming through the ENTIRE book, doesn't seem very realistic.

That said, I'm still going to give the 2nd book a try. If it's more of the same I'm out. If he's just less of a crybaby, actually does something, and starts to really believe in the world I think I'll start to enjoy it.
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ragwaine | 85 outras críticas | Jan 31, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
90
Also by
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Membros
50,126
Popularidade
#303
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
516
ISBN
582
Línguas
12
Marcado como favorito
134

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