This fully authorized guide is the perfect introduction to New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. With lavish full-bleed production stills and biographies of the stars and the filmmakers, this book gives readers privileged access to behind-the-scenes material found nowhere else. Full color.
Chronicles of the Raven: Two AN ANCIENT EVIL HAS BEEN BANISHED - NOW THE PRICE MUST BE PAID ... Balaia is torn by war, and now suffering the consequences of an apocalyptic spell too. The Dawnthief - designed to destroy the world, but cast in desperation to save it - has ripped a hole in the sky ... ... which becomes a pathway to a dragon dimension, through which unfriendly eyes are already turning to Balaia. But with war already sweeping the land, there are no armies to send against the dragons. Only a band of tiny, but legendary, mercenaries: The Raven.
The Raven have fought together for years, six men carving out a living as swords for hire in the war that has torn Balaia apart, loyal only to themselves and their code. But when they agree to escort a Xesteskian mage on a secret mission they are pulled into a world of politics and ancients secrets. For the first time The Raven cannot trust even their own strength and prowess, for the first time their code is in doubt. How is it that they are fighting for one of the most evil colleges of magic known? Searching for the secret location of Dawnthief; a spell that could end the world? Aiming not to destroy it but to cast it . . . DAWNTHIEF is a fast paced epic about a band of all-too-human heroes.
Credo essay by James Blish Introduction essay by Harry Harrison Hawksbill Station 67 novella by Robert Silverberg Ultimate Construction 67 story by Brian Aldiss=C.C. Shackleton 1937 AD! 67 story by John T. Sladek Fifteen Miles/Kinsman 67 story by Ben Bova Blackmail 67 story by Fred Hoyle The Vine 67 story by Kit Reed Interview With a Lemming 41 story by James Thurber The Wreck of the Ship John B. 67 novelette by Frank M. Robinson The Left-Hand Way 67 story by A. Bertram Chandler The Forest of Zil 67 story by Kris Neville The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race 66 story by J.G. Ballard Answering Service 67 story by Fritz Leiber The Last Command/Bolo 67 story by Keith Laumer Mirror of Ice 67 story by Gary Wright Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes 67 novelette by Harlan Ellison Knights of the Paper Spaceship: A Retrospective Glance at Science Fiction essay by Brian W. Aldiss