Margaret Ways is a famous American writer, our contemporary, known to all lovers of science 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 Ways was born in Missouri in 1948. According to the sign of the zodiac - Pisces. Such people are a priori creative, have a strong imagination and love to dream. Apparently, this greatly affected the heroine of the article.
In the seventies, the future writer graduated from the University of Missouri and almost immediately got a job at one of the major publishing houses. After 2 years, it became clear that luck has been pursuing Margaret Ways since childhood - she was invited to head the advertising department at the same publishing house. After working in this position for 10 years, she received an invitation to become the director of an even more famous publishing house. She devoted 3 years of this life to this place, and then decided to change her duties a bit and became the editor of the role-playing system.
Now the writer continues to manage the system of gaming systems, but in another company, occupying a significant place there.
She wrote the first trilogy between 1984 and 1985 together with another aspiring 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 Ways: Books
The writer at the moment has written a huge number of books, which are combined in a series and trilogy. Now she has about 6 episodes (Universes), the last of which is called the “Stone of Dominion”.
The most famous of them will be discussed below.
The Spear Saga
This universe, consisting of a series of epic works in the fantasy genre, was co-written by two famous writers: Margaret Ways, Tracy Hickman.
First, in this saga, books were published representing the main characters, the fate of which readers will learn, gradually becoming acquainted with the following works of the saga.
In this universe alone, about 25 books were written by Margaret Ways. Below will be considered those that readers liked most.
The Chronicles of Raistlin
This novel belongs to the main part of the Saga of the Spear. In the story, Raistlin Majere, 6 years old, trying to get to school for sorcerers, gets acquainted with the highest magician who is interested in giving this chance to a boy. But something wrong with this is noticed by the Mages from the Tower of High Magic. They see a great storm coming.
But Raistlin, not suspecting anything, only thinks of becoming a magician, but meanwhile he begins to forget that he must first pass the test, which can end for him very unsuccessfully.
"The Doomed Brigade"
25 years have passed since the Spear War, but again new intrigues begin to set in the lands of Krynn: the dwarves find an old treasure map and try to find them, and the fearless Knights of Darkness once again recall the old conflict over power over Ansalon land and unleash the battle. Do not slumber and the creatures of Chaos. Now their goal is to leave nothing alive on Krynn. To cope with all this can only the Doomed Brigade, which was able to survive in the last war.
“Dragons of the missing star”
The gods left the land of Krynn, now dark forces reign here, who are ready to destroy all the good that remains. This cannot but lead to a large-scale war, because it is already precisely entered by the tribes of elves who have lost their ancient strength, the great Dragons of the missing star, barely returning to the continent, and, of course, the Knights of Darkness.
"Curse of the Dead Gods"
The gods returned, but the war does not abate, because they seek to share power. The continent looks like a huge pool of blood, residents in a panic. Cadavras go forward 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. The Lord of Death, whose weakness is Mina, is no exception. Who is this girl? Where did she get such powerful power? And if her life is the curse of the dead gods.
Margaret Ways, books in order of which it is simply impossible to arrange, because there are a lot of them (which is why they are distributed among sagas) is a very famous author among fans of this genre.