Margaret Weis: biography, books

Margaret Weis - a famous American writer, our contemporary, known to all lovers of fiction, not only at home, but also abroad. It was she who, together with T. Hickman, created the Dragonlance universe. The article will consider the biography of a woman and her most popular books.

Biography

Margaret Wace was born in Missouri in 1948. By the sign of the Zodiac - Pisces. Such people are a priori creative, having a strong imagination and loving to dream. Apparently, this has greatly affected the heroine of the article.

In the seventies, a future writer graduated from the University of Missouri and almost immediately got a job in one of the major publishing houses. After 2 years it became clear that the success of pursuing Margaret Ways since childhood - she was offered to head the advertising department in the same publisher. Having worked in this position for 10 years, she received an invitation to become a director of an even more famous publishing house. She devoted this place 3 years of her life, and then decided to change her duties a little and became the editor of the role-playing game system.

Now the writer continues to manage the system of gaming systems, but already in another company, occupying there a sufficiently weighty place.

She wrote the first trilogy in the period from 1984 to 1985, together with another novice author - Don Perin, who later became her husband. In their marriage, two children were born: Elizabeth and David. But soon the couple chose to leave.

Margaret Weis: books

The writer at the moment has written a huge number of books that are combined in a series and trilogy. Now it has about 6 series (Universes), the latter of which is called "Stone of Dominance".

The most famous of them will be considered below.

The Saga of the Spear

This universe, consisting of a cycle of epic works in the genre of fantasy, was written in the co-authorship of two famous writers: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman.

First in this saga were published books, representing the protagonists, the fate of which readers will learn, gradually becoming acquainted with the following works of the saga.

Only in this universe about 25 books were written by Margaret Wace. Below are the ones that readers liked most.

The Chronicles of Raistlin

This novel belongs to the main part of the "Saga of the Spear". According to the plot, Raistlin Majere, who has reached the age of six, tries to get into the school for sorcerers, gets acquainted with the highest magician who is interested in giving this chance to the boy. But Magee from the Tower of Higher Sorcery notices something wrong. They see that a great storm is coming.

But Raistlin, suspecting nothing, thinks only of becoming a magician, but meanwhile he begins to forget that first he needs to pass a test, which may end for him very unsuccessfully.

"The Brigade of the Doomed"

25 years have passed since the time of the Lance War, but again new intrigues begin to be tied up in the lands of Krynn: the dwarves find an ancient treasure map and try to find them, and the fearless Knights of Darkness recall the old conflict over the power over Ansalon earth and unleash a battle. Do not slumber and spawning Chaos. Now their goal is to leave nothing alive on Krynn. To cope with this, only the Brigade of the Doomed can survive, which was able to survive in the last war.

"Dragons of the Lost Star"

The gods have left the lands of Krynn, now dark powers dominate here, who are ready to destroy all the good that is left. This can not but lead to a large-scale war, because the tribes of elves who have lost their ancient strength, the great Dragons of the missing star, barely returned to the continent, and, of course, the Knights of Darkness, are already entering it.

"Curse of the Dead Gods"

The gods have returned, but the war does not cease, because they seek to share power. The continent looks like a huge pool of blood, the inhabitants are in a panic. Cadavers go ahead and demolish everything in their path, trying to establish Chamosh as the new ruler of the world. But everything is not so simple, because everyone has some kind of weakness. No exception is the Lord of Death, whose weakness is Mina. Who is this girl? Why does she have such a powerful power? And if her life is the bearing of the curse of dead gods.

Margaret Wace, books in the order of which it is simply impossible to arrange, because there are a lot of them (that's why they are distributed among sagas) - a very famous author among fans of this genre.