stephen donaldson

Although they've been available for quite some time, the Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever series has been available only through order from a website which isn't a major vendor. Digital and Discs available. I noted last week that on Audible the first two books in the series (Lord Foul's Bane and...

What Has Gone Before: This is a short explanatory note before the review and (for my own amusement) I decided to entitle it in the fashion of a Thomas Covenant recap. I am, as you can probably tell, easily amused. Now to the nitty gritty. In all honesty, I have to inform any reader of this...

Berkeley will be released a new high fantasy trilogy from Stephen Donalson next year, titled Great God's War: Fantasy Author Stephen R. Donaldson is Back with a New Trilogy!

SPOILERS FOR GAP SERIES!!! I was a late Donaldson fan. I started reading the Thomas Coveneant chronicles just over a year ago and since then I've read both the first and second chronicles, Mordant's Need duology and I'm halfway through book three of the gap series. I'm addicted. I was...

This is something that's always sort of vexed me about the Thomas Covenant series SPOILER:Everybody generally despises Covenant(at least in the first few chapters) because he rapes this woman in the first book. Now, granted, rape is not a nice thing to do (especially to someone who I think had...

19th November 2010 02:03 AM Elaine Frei October saw the release of two new novels from well-known names in science fiction and fantasy, Stephen R. Donaldson and Connie Willis. First up is All Clear, from multiple Hugo and Nebula-award winning Connie Willis. All Clear is a sequel to her...

4th July 2009 07:18 AM Elaine Frei Stephen R. Donaldon, award-winning author of the First, Second and Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Gap Cycle, and other science fiction, fantasy and mystery novels and short stories, was recently awarded an honorary degree from the University of St...

Just had an e-mail to say my hardback copy of The Last Dark is on it's way. I first came across Covenant in the early eighties so it has been a long wait getting to here. I have a sneaking suspicion I know how this one is going to end and I do hope I'm wrong. However, no turning back now, got...

Well, as all Donaldson fans are likely aware, the Thomas Covenant series is sadly (for my part) coming to an end. The Last Dark is advertised by Donaldson as the final book. Amazon of course is already selling it for 20 pounds in the UK, even though it hasn't been released (and if Donaldson's...

[Please note that this is a review of a series of books rather than any individual book within the series.] Stephen R. Donaldson is primarily known for the dark fantasy work The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, which kicked off his career. The Gap Cycle, however, is a space opera. The...

Anyone else reading/read the third book of the Last Chronicles? I'm about 300 pages in, and not sure what to think of it. Sometimes I want to fall to the floor and beat my fists against it, screaming "Why won't something happen??!" I can't read more than fifty pages at a time without starting to...

(With a nod to Foxbat for his review of The Runes of the Earth, which review matches my take on that book quite well). The books of Stephen R. Donaldson are among my earliest ventures into Fantasy literature. A friend in high school pointed me in the direction of Lord Foul’s Bane, and I was...

So, I've been hearing all of the hype about this book and I was wondering what it's similar to in style and plot. If it's about prophecies and stff I'll just pass on it. So, I go to the source. Thanks in advance.

OK folks, I have the book in my hands and am already reading it. Please post any thoughts on the book here.....:)

For any fans out there in the vicinity of Bristol, Stephen Donaldson is going to be at Waterstones, Union Galleries, Broadmead on 26th Oct. He's going ot be talking about and signing his latest Thomas Convenant book Fatal Revenant. It starts at 7pm and tickes cost £3, redeamable against the...

I've said this elsewhere, but seriously. It isn't very long, it's very easy to get into, and it's entertaining from start to finish, packed full of interesting characters and a twisting story set in a really unusual environment. Think about it, it's Donaldson and you know he's damn good, it's...

For the few of you who've read it (everyone else is missing out so badly, they really are), who's your fave? This is almost impossible for me, there are so many awesome characters to choose from. I really, really like Warden, he has a kind of presence about him which makes you hang on to every...

Hey guys, im new here, and I joined hoping to find some other books that I might like. Im pretty new to the sci fi fantasy seen but after reading Lord Fouls Bane, I had no idea what I was missing. Within the following two weeks, I read both triolgies in the series, and Runes of the Earth. After...

i somehow stumbled across that about a month ago. I honestly cant see how you could write a book after The Power that Preserves, since a (spoiler alert) major character is dead.. but you never know, he did have alot of loose threads. Especially stuff about the Banefire and whatnot. i had...

Hi I noticed there wasn't a thread on this and decided to make one. Feel free to post your favourite character, and why you like them/ why you don't like other characters. The character that really got me was Bannor. He was what my sister and I would call an "Aragorn character" (this does not...