Best fantasy anthologies according to redditors
We found 370 Reddit comments discussing the best fantasy anthologies. We ranked the 142 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 370 Reddit comments discussing the best fantasy anthologies. We ranked the 142 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Art of War: Anthology For Charity
Edited by Petros Triantafyllou.
Profits go to Doctors Without Borders.
I don't think there is one where he has read LoTR in its entirety, but this one, narrated by him and Christopher Tolkien, comes pretty close. According to description, the quality of older excerpts is not all that great. Below is a complete listing of chapters read by JRRT and CT [Credit to a reviewer, Anonymouse, on Amazon]:
CD 1: Songs and excerpts from "The Hobbit" and "The Fellowship of the Ring" read by J.R.R. Tolkien (49 minutes)
CD 2: Songs and excerpts from "The Two Towers", "The Return of the King", "The Fellowship of the Ring", and "The Adventure os Tom Bombadil" read by J.R.R. Tolkien (73 minutes)
CD 3: Excerpts from "The Silmarillion" read by Christopher Tolkien (68 minutes)
CD 4: Excerpts from "The Silmarillion" read by Christopher Tolkien (60 minutes)
Here are links for each platform;
I'll update the link when iBookstore goes live. ibookstore is a bit "pickier" about the epub format and I REALLY struggled to get it "just right" I'm still waiting to hear from Shawn if there are other "nits to fix" but at this point I think the version I have to him should be in relatively good shape.
Also for those interested in the "line-up" here are the stories in the book:
For a selection of the songs (along with readings of sections of his books), you could look into the recordings that Tolkien made after LotR was written but before publication.
For example, here's Sam's song about the troll.
Edit - Oh, right. Also there's The Road Goes Ever On, a book of sheet music and whatnot for some of the songs that was developed by Donald Swann and officially approved by Tolkien.
you may like this novel, then.
The Strike at Shayol Ghul details Lews Therins attempt to shut the bore.
Speaking of the Strike at Shayol Ghul, there is The World of Robert Jordan's a Wheel of Time also known affectionetly as the Big White Book (BWB) or Big Book of Bad Art (BBBA). It delves into a lot about cultures, features write ups of each forsaken, pokes fun at the covers and includes the entire text of Strike.
There was a short story called New Spring included in Robert Silverberg's Legends, this was later expanded into the novella New Spring
The short story about Bao is not considered connanical and is included in the short story collection Unfettered
Eye of the world was re-released for a YA market in two parts with a new prologue Ravens
The Interview Database, just click a topic that looks intresting and prepare to lose a day or two
The Wheel of Time FAQ back in the mists of time (late 90's early aughts) this was the best resource for all things WoT related. It hasn't been significantly updated since about book 10 (i mean, yes there were updates, but nothing on the scale and detail that it used to get). Gives great insight into what the fandom was pulling its hair out about during the two years+ between books. Also, some of the info is evergreen like historical references etc.
There was a terrible video game that has almost zero to do with the series.
There was a d20 based D&D rule set released and a adventure that explained how Taim got to Rand in time to rescue himat Dumai's Wells. RJ later came out and said that this was completely made up by the authors of the module and had nothing to do with the series, which was a BIG clue about Taim's allegiance.
I feel like im missing something, but I can't put my finger on it, so I will leave you with a random fact that you should know
Tar Valon is a vagina
Alright lets do this.
Fantasy:
You like friendship and grimdark? You get the Slayer series:
http://www.amazon.com/Gotrek-Felix-First-Omnibus-Novels/dp/1844163741/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426257019&sr=1-1&keywords=gotrek+and+felix+omnibus
You like malice and conniving and plot twists? You get the Darkblade Series:
http://www.amazon.com/Chronicle-Malus-Darkblade-Warhammer-Anthology/dp/1844165639/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426257058&sr=1-1&keywords=darkblade+omnibus
You like the Empire n shit? They did a whole series about every "part" of the army:
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Omnibus-Warhammer-Chris-Wraight/dp/1849705879/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=15PKR46KZZN2847VPRMN
The omnibus contains the arty, pikemen, and 2handed swords companies. There is also a Reiksguard book and some others.
40k:
You like comedy? You get Ciaphus Cain (currently 2 omnibus, books getting a bit stale now but the early ones are good):
http://www.amazon.com/Ciaphas-Cain-Hero-Imperium-Novels/dp/1844164667
You like philosophy (kinda)? You get the Night Lords series:
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Lords-Aaron-Dembski-Bowden/dp/184970676X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256834&sr=1-1&keywords=night+lords+omnibus
You like pure bloody action? You get any of the Gaunts Ghosts:
http://www.amazon.com/Gaunts-Ghosts-Founding-Dan-Abnett/dp/1844163695/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256866&sr=1-2&keywords=gaunts+ghost+omnibus
You like the movie The Dirty Dozen? You get The Last Chancers:
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Chancers-Warhammer-000-Novels/dp/1844163008/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256913&sr=1-1&keywords=last+chancers+omnibus
You want all the pre-lore in the game? You start collecting the Horus Heresy books (up to like 30 of em):
http://www.amazon.com/Horus-Heresy-Box-Volumes-1-12/dp/1849708290/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256963&sr=1-2&keywords=horus+heresy
I got plenty more. But these are good places to start. If you like one race in particular over others, let me know and I can recommend some race specific books for you.
Exciting!
My self-published novel, Talindor's Guest would fit beautifully in the following categories.
It's a book of short stories in the Dresden universe. Amazon link
Here's a link to the book on Amazon
Have you read the short story about him in the Unfettered short story book? It gives a little bit more insight into what he was doing, or how he came about to achieving what he did, and maybe who that girl was in relation to him.
Paging /u/whydobabiesstareatme about the short story too.
The Hope of Elantris can be found on Brandon's website.
Sixth of the Dusk is in Brandon's Writing Excuses anthology Shadows Beneath.
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell is also in an anthology called Dangerous Women.
Evil Is a Matter of Perspective
Nook Book link
Non-mobile Amazon link
Really looking forward to this, the list of authors on here is amazing.
The Worthing Saga. Great book even if it's not the one you're looking for. OR it could be Treason- actually maybe more likely Treason, I think I was confusing the two. But both are excellent!
Here are the first few pages for those interested.
http://www.amazon.com/reader/1597801577?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib_books_pg&qid=1266531814&query=the%20windup%20girl#reader-page
Just read Archaon: Everchosen two weeks ago. Good stuff. Also, read the first two books in the The Empire Omnibus, also fun stuff.
Scroll down to the next page - it specifically references Tolkien reading in his Gollum voice in "The JRR Tolkien Audio Collection". Why here's a copy for you to buy!
It is part of the book "unfettered" which can be had on Kindle for a few $
https://www.amazon.com.au/Unfettered-Terry-Brooks-ebook/dp/B00DJJIR6S
I would suggest The J.R.R. Tolkien Audio Collection. She probably doesn't have it already, and it's really cool to hear the actual voices of Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien reading from the legendarium.
If you want to DM me the picture of her bookshelf, I can suggest some books too. There's just so many things she probably already has!
FWIW, the audio is available on CD as part of The J.R.R. Tolkien Audio Collection, although the cover art isn't as cool. :-)
Don't forget to pick up Side Jobs. There's a followup short story from Murph's point of view. [Hover-Spoiler](http://www.amazon.com/Side-Jobs-Stories-Dresden-Files/dp/045146365X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293389906&sr=8-1"Murph's story is a 'Life Goes On' plot where she and the werewolf Scoobie Squad take on some supernatural slavers. Good times are had by all. Harry's still dead, though, and I can't wait 'til April. This and the new Rothfuss book in March will make things excessively awesome.").
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi are both amazing, deep, engrossing books with worlds of their own. I cannot recommend them enough.
Also, China Mieville's books are pretty awesome, though more urban fantasy than SciFi. Still worth a read.
I really enjoyed Ragnarok's Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues, which has stories from Mark Lawrence, Carol Berg, Michael Sullivan, Anthony Ryan, Django Wexler, Cat Rambo, and lots more.
If you like dark/grimdark fantasy, the Grimdark Magazine gang is about to do a general release of their Evil is a Matter of Perspective anthology, which contains a set of stories from the POV of series antagonists. Authors are Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brian Staveley, Janny Wurts, Jeff Salyards, Bradley Beaulieu, Teresa Frohock, R. Scott Bakker, and more...including me! (But I wouldn't rec it if I didn't like the other stories. I'm about halfway through reading the anthology right now, and I'm definitely enjoying it so far.)
For single-author collections, I second the rec for Kelly Link, and would add Patricia McKillip's Wonders of the Invisible World and Dreams of Distant Shores, particularly if you like lyrical prose and mythic magic.
The source comes from the Creator. Hahahahaha, but seriously, here's the Kindle, and Nook versions of Unfettered. It's an anothology, so you'll be getting more that just River of Souls (Demandred's tale).
I left out where the story was in my first comment but I guess I could have posted a link too http://www.amazon.com/Unfettered-Terry-Brooks-ebook/dp/B00DJJIR6S
This.
It's part of the short-story collection Unfettered II (Shawn Speakman, editor), now on sale at Amazon (and possibly other places as well).
Amazon link here.
The Windup Girl is different kind of apocalyptic tale, won the hugo and nebulla awards. Hard sci fi with a very human touch.
Could be wrong but I remember something in the short story in Unfettered
You have to have read The Goblin Wars, right? That's goblin-centric through and through, and the goblins are more or less the "good guys"
Edit: Also comes in a big omnibus collection if you don't want all 3 books.
Unfettered
This reminds me of the book The Wind-Up Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It's all about a future Bangkok pretty much underwater. Awesome contemporary sci-fi.
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi might be what you're looking for.
I think she's mixing three books/worlds
While Dune had the Bene Gesserit breeding program (to make the Kwisatch Haderach/Messiah), I don't remember them even being red heads...
Heinlein did have some damn randy redheads in his world, but it wasn't so much a breeding program, as they liked to fuck, a lot. (and alots, if they existed)
Worthing Saga by OSC seems to be the closest match though... Quick and dirty synopsis is strangers come to a rurual village and stay at the inn to hire the inkeepers son to record their story. Part of the story involves a "gifted" human (called a "Slide", IIRC) who can sense surface throughts. He was sent away, with the intention of starting a new colony. Things went wrong (as they are wont to do) and he put himself into suspended animation for a very long time. While he was sleeping, his initial offspring on the new planet (which carried the gift) were interbreeding with the rest of the populace causing the "gifted" humans to eventually populate the entire planet, which they unite two warring factions in marriage. They MAY have been redheads, but I don't have the book handy to check.
Ask her if she remembers the animal that ate the ass cheek. :D
Is this it?
Before you do a reread, have you read the other short stories in the Dresden universe? If you haven't, they are a quick read and will give you a little more backstory on things.
Side Jobs: https://www.amazon.com/Side-Jobs-Stories-Dresden-Files/dp/045146365X?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&tag=iagonet
Working for bigfoot: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Bigfoot-Jim-Butcher-ebook/dp/1596067306/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1469828342&sr=1-1&keywords=working+for
I picked up the bigfoot one at my library. I have no clue why it's so costly online.
Mean streets: https://www.amazon.com/Mean-Streets-REMY-CHANDLER-NOVEL-ebook/dp/B001P9O380/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1469828401&sr=1-1&keywords=mean+streets
Edited..to add another book
I just tried searching amazon for this (never heard of it) and all I found was this: http://www.amazon.com/Unfettered-Terry-Brooks-ebook/dp/B00DJJIR6S/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1409916955&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=river+of+souls+brandon+sanderson
is it the same thing? I'm really interested in finding this!
Popping back in to check the list of books (some good stuff in here!) and surprised not to see The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. He also wrote Pump Six (short stories, some very good), Ship Breaker (aimed at juveniles, but still fun) and The Alchemist (ok, I guess).
FYI, Benedict Patrick wrote a short story set in this area for the Lost Lore anthology. It was the first Yarnsworld story I read and convinced me to pick up the collection.
Link in post is for .ca, if it doesn't work try the .com: https://www.amazon.com/Nourishment-One-Shot-Anthology-Speculative-speculative-ebook/dp/B07YF1P4GW/
Ah, yes. You mean the "In Favour with their Stars" story in the Unfettered collection, I think.
https://www.amazon.com/Unfettered-Terry-Brooks-ebook/dp/B00DJJIR6S/
Haven't read that one yet, though I might have $3 for the eBook. I hadn't expected more than a whimsical Temeraire dream about flying around in space. So I'm surprised by your description.
"She didn't go in to the particulars of how dragons did (or did not) reshape history extensively by their presence."
I can understand that. I suspect that is why she ended the series where she did, historical points were about to start diverting greatly and without a team of historians, she'd would be spending far more time figuring out how each dragon shaped ripple changed the future and the series isn't popular enough to justify spending that much time on it.
"it actually became hugely maladaptive to be a heavyweight or even middleweight dragon, as they were expensive to feed and mechanical work was more easily accomplished by machines."
That was my outlook as well, though I suspect Novik was a bit optimistic/kind in her view. I can imagine the matter becoming quite nasty with rationing and taxes being levied on dragons as well as population control.
And I could also see anti-mechanical racialists on the dragons side who destroy any machines that could replace them. We've seen how taxi drivers panicked when Uber came out. How are dragons going to feel when the only things they can do is being replaced by machines. Dragons will feel the same about machines in the 1900's as humans do about about robots today.
And what happens when dragons start rioting?
This is the cover art to The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Awesome book. The book is not Deiselpunk, more post-peak energy Sci-Fi.
I was fortunate enough to have my novelette, "The Red-rimmed Eyes of Tóu Mǎ," published in Shawn Speakman's anthology among r/fantasy favourites such as Brandon Sanderson, Janny Wurts, Jim Butcher, and Michael Sullivan. I've now made that story available as a standalone eBook on Kindle. It's just a buck.
It also has a Goodreads page.
About the story
>To save his friend, Farid Sulayk, the Patchwork Priest, needs to get to O’oa Tsetse before the next full moon. But between here and there are highways crawling with rebels, and a range of sky-scraping mountains riddled with blood ghosts, kō-dan, and worse. Ethereal Tóu Mǎ offers Farid passage through the mountains, but at a cost: defeat the warlock Wu-jiu, who holds the village of Tt’Hsiung in her blood-soaked fist.
>Accompanied by Tóu Mǎ, a mischievous fire djinn, and his growing doubts, Farid races to reach O’oa Tsetse before it’s too late; but first he must defeat the deadly warlock and her ghostly Yoo-in. As secrets are revealed and blood is spilled, will Farid’s battle-hardened mechanical arm and djinn magic be enough to see them through alive?
Cover Art
The cover illustration was done by a tremendously talented Indian artist named Ayan Nag. I highly recommend checking out the rest of his gallery.
Thanks for all the support, r/fantasy. Enjoy!
Not sure if it's every year. I think it's the first time that it's happened. Quite a few of them seem to be collections of blog posts.
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I can't answer that but as a fan of Writing Excuses I recommend their book Shadows Beneath in which each of the podcast's hosts brainstorms, writes, and revises their stories with input from the group as well as their own commentary. It's pretty inward-facing compared to the majority of their episodes.
The Writing Excuses anthology, Shadows Beneath, contains four original short stories with first drafts and revisions in most cases. The stories are by Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells from the Writing Excuses podcast.
If you want something easy to read, there is a fantasy anthology that came out this year called “Evil is a matter of perspective” that focuses on villains and their evilness. Halfway through it and so far it is really good
https://www.amazon.com/Evil-Matter-Perspective-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0648010570
Congrats on finishing! WoT really is a wild ride, no other series has left me with a feeling even close to what I felt when I put down AMOL for the last time...
As for your reread, I just want to let you know there are some other books and stories that can help expand your reread. New Spring is an awesome prequel book to the series, I would recommend starting the reread with that first!
Also, if you want to get alllll the info you can on Randland, the WoT Companion book is an awesome encyclopedia of it all while The world of RJ's WoT is almost like a mini textbook describing much of the land and nations. Lastly, there is a very very short story about Bao the Wyld, it's basically a deleted scene. I'm not sure of the ways to access it besides getting the Unfettered anthology though that one is pretty cheap and has a lot of other very good stories from varying authors.
Either way, enjoy the reread! I'm doing my first reread now and I'm having a blast catching all the foreshadowing and hidden gems :)
Everyone's right. This is the most recently printed book that the story is found in, I think.
I suggest you read The Worthing Saga
AI: Detonation by Erik A. Otto (read it last year and enjoyed a lot),
Anthology: The Art of War by Petros Triantafyllou, Writers of the Future anthologies should be available as part of KU as well.
Australian author: We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson (very good), Manifest Recall by Alan Baxter (a mindfuck, bit a good one)
Graphic novel: Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison (read it and then watch the show. Or the other way around. Both are great)
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The Lost Lore anthology is free as a Kindle eBook, and has lots of great stories in it.
Reminds me of one of my very favorite books, The Worthing Saga.
Some classic fantasy is short-story based, especially in Sword and Sorcery. They tend to be collected now and often arranged in longer series, but Howard's Conan, Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser and Moore's Jirel of Joiry all feature in short stories, and even Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone emerged from a short story, and the collected series is quite episodic in nature. Delaney's Neveryon is a bit like this as well.
More recently, there a plenty of collections out there, for example I just pre-ordered Journeys which has an excellent lineup. There are some great periodic magazines (often online) with excellent stories as well. Many of the magazines mix sci-fi and fantasy content, but a lot of the stories are free as well.
Fight Like a Girl, edited by Joanne Hall and Roz Clarke
Number 16 is the coverart of Shadows Beneath, an anthology of short stories. Most of which have little to do with ocean monsters, but it's a good visual metaphor.
The Worthing Saga, by Orson Scott Card
On a side note, The book "Windup Girl" goes into the premise of a world run by "calorie companies" that control food supplies.
Edit: can't wright this morning need more coffee.
There's a published recording that includes some Bombadil among other awesome stuff.
I finally released my short stories on Amazon. It was supposed to be released months ago but I ran into some unexpected issues. This experience has taught me two things:
After this, I plan on releasing a story a month. I know I can do it, so I'm going to push myself to try. Hopefully I can build up my selection of books before the end of the year. It's been a struggle for me, but I hope to get more done soon. There's a story that I was working on that I'm going to put away for a while. I'm going to work on some stuff I haven't tried before and I'll be sure to share it with you with I have something worth showing.
In this episode of the Prancing Pony Podcast they discuss pronunciation starting at about minute 3:00, including a number of clips of Christopher Tolkien. Around minute 7:30 they discuss and play a clip of Christopher Tolkien reading Túna from the Silmarillion. I believe the recording is part of the J.R.R. Tolkien Audio Collection audio book.
Edit: a link
The new anthology from Woodbridge Press, Journeys, is up for pre-order across all Amazon sites. With an official release date of 15th Feb, Journeys features brand new stories by Adrian Tchaikovsky, John Gwynne, Gail Z Martin, Julia Knight, Juliet E McKenna and many more (including me).
There's a special preorder price - 99p on UK Amazon at the moment! - so go do that clicky thing!
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This was a really good book by the way!
It's called Shadows Beneath. And it's a short story anthology written for writers because it includes the first drafts and planning stages.
https://www.amazon.ca/Shadows-Beneath-Writing-Excuses-Anthology-ebook/dp/B00LDOM8A2
It doesn't have anything to do with deep sea monsters.
It is! Here’s the link: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07QPS3119/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=the+three+warlocks&qid=1557939698&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Thanks! An interesting premise, I'll give it a go.
UK Amazon Link for those interested: The Three Warlocks (A Tragedy of Dust Book 1) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QPS3119/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_qkQ2CbRDFKK1M
It does make sense. :)
It's high fantasy in very specific terms, as it has high fantasy tropes, but it's... not as heavy as a lot of them tend to be. It's a very fun series, it's not too difficult prose-wise, it's not overly complicated, and I ended up just living in my chair for 3 days gobbling it up. One of the few books that I have read and then listened to the audio of because I loved it so much. (Also, the narrator for the audiobooks is amazing. Just throwing that out there).
However, if you want very specific high fantasy that is more along the lines of Lord of the Rings or Dragonlance or Wheel of Time, than this is a bit more 'modern' feeling than any of those are. I'm not sure how I can explain what that means.
It feels fresher? Lol this isn't working.
If you'd like a sample of it without committing money to it, here's a sampler of some short stories from the same universe: The Sampler
Shadows Beneath by Writing Excuses
The short story River of Souls came out in the summer:
http://www.amazon.ca/Unfettered-Terry-Brooks-ebook/dp/B00DJJIR6S
Maybe. It could be that the artist I linked stole the artwork, or made it years ago and only uploaded it for the competition.
Or maybe there was a very similar artwork which both of you saw and which inspired her to make this picture.
I just recognised the artwork and the artist and wanted give people the information.
EDIT: Just looked through the comments on the artwork and somebody mentioned it beeing used as the cover for this book. Is that by any chance your book?
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
You've probably read it, but I highly recommend Gene Wolfe's classic, 'The Book of the New Sun'
http://www.amazon.com/The-J-R-R-Tolkien-Audio-Collection/dp/0694525707
It seems to be in there, according to a review. Of course, that's not helpful for listening now, which is what I would've liked. A youtube search was vain, at least for me.
This is as good as it gets, I think. There's a full version too, with more discs (I think), but I didn't see it.
There are many cool books:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1849705879/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495565852&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=empire+omnibus&dpPl=1&dpID=510MIUXAO0L&ref=plSrch The empire omnibus has a bunch of stories about the empire.
The sigmar omnibus for the story of sigmar
Then there is the sundering series which tells the story why there are high & dark elves.
The war of the beard series about why the elves and the dwarves hate each other.
The tyrion and teclis triology for some elf action and also the backstory of the two high elf LL's
The gotrek and felix series for general warhammer stuff.
The thanquol series for skaven
The nagash omnibus for the backstory of the guy who's responsible for the undead in this setting.
The vampire wars omnibus for the backstory of vlad von carstein
Then there are ofcourse the armybooks, the three heraldry books (empire, skaven, helf) the liber chaotica, of the skaven and all their vile kin, the life of sigmar and a billion other super awesome books.
One word of advice tho is.. stay the hell away from the endtimes!
For those curious as to the [book] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01MTQMK2A/ref=pd_aw_sim_351_2/152-7638915-0019261?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1CH14GCZZXXB0J43YRDN)
You may be interested in this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00LDOM8A2/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486427946&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=writing+excuses&dpPl=1&dpID=51NYIGvfXFL&ref=plSrch
Understood. But...there's a copy on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0984713638/ref=tmm_hrd_collectible_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=collectible&qid=&sr=.
http://www.amazon.com/Goblin-Wars-Omnibus-Stuart-Thaman-ebook/dp/B01C1Y4L0M/
If I like D&D books and LoTR, how much will I like this book?
Encyclopedic, my ass. He pronounces "Thangorodrim" incorrectly.
/ˌθaŋɡoˈrodrim/
This correction via Tolkien Gateway and Christopher Tolkien's own pronunciation on his reading of "Of Beren and Lúthien" (available here to buy; an unconnected excerpt is here).