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(Tad Williams) draws on many mythologies for the background of his fantasy epic, creating a solid story spiced with political intrigue and strong appealing heroes.” “The fantasy equivalent of WAR AND PEACE…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.” “Williams has begun a well-written, colorfully characterized and very readable saga.” Praise for Memory, Sorrow and Thorn THE DRAGONBONE CHAIR

It was reprinted in EPIC: Legends of Fantasy, edited by John Joseph Adams (2012), and adapted into a graphic novel paired with “The Wood Boy” by Raymond Feist. Tad’s Memory, Sorrow and Thorn novelette, “ The Burning Man,” was originally published in LEGENDS I: Short Novels By the Masters of Modern Fantasy, edited by Robert Silverberg (1998). The novel spent five weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers List. In the UK they were released as To Green Angel Tower: Siege and To Green Angel Tower: Storm. TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER was split into two volumes for paperback publication in 1994: To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 and To Green Angel Tower, Part 2. Paperback Parts I & II 1994 TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER (1993) is the tour-de-force finale as the loyal allies of Prince Josua, Simon, and The League of the Scroll attempt to unravel a prophecy that may ultimately allow them to strike down the undead Storm King and bring peace to Osten Ard. And to Simon — unknowingly apprenticed to a member of this League, and unwittingly touched by magic both good and ill — will go the task of spearheading the search for the solution to this riddle of long-lost swords of power, a quest that will see him fleeing and facing enemies straight out of a legend-maker’s worst nightmare! Only a small, scattered group, the League of the Scroll, recognizes the true danger faced by Osten Ard, only they hold the knowledge of times past, of threats fulfilled, and of a riddle of swords, which holds out the one small hope of salvation. Driven by spell-inspired jealousy and fear, prince fights prince, while around them the very land begins to die, poisoned by a sorcerous force sworn to annihilate the humans whose ancestors had driven the Sithi from their rightful home long ages ago. And with his death, a long-dormant evil is unleashed on the land as the undead Sithi ruler, the Storm King, seeks to regain his lost realm through a pact with one of human royal blood. In Osten Ard, a land once ruled by an elvishlike race known as the Sithi, the human High King is dying.