[ChrisW]

The prologue on his site is a good intro. The style doesn't change.
Didn't like the first part of it much though.

[Mithfânion]

I've read the prologue on the site and some stuff others quoted, I liked the writing style very much. I'm just waiting till the second book comes out and I can import them both from Canada in one shipping.

[JohnH]

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[Richardb]

Donaldson and Duncan clearly belong in a Legends 3. They both have truly shown themselves as legends in the field. As for some of the others, while Mcaffrey is a legend, as is Fiest, perhaps it is time to retire them in favor of some new blood, as they did not show any real interest in doing quality work for the current release. As to Williams - Osten Ard please!

[FicusFan]

I have a question for the people in the UK. I know the Hardcover is out there, but what about the Paperback (trade or Mass Market)? Locus said there was a Hardcover and a Trade published at the same time. Amazon.uk lists the paperback as being published in February '04. So is there any paperback yet available in the UK ?

[Eventine]

I'm in Australia, which is usually the same and didn't see a hardcover released at all - there seems to be a trend away from that here at the moment. I do have the trade paperback however.

[Mithfânion]

FF, as far as I know there won't be a paperback till the date that you quoted.

As for Duncan, all I've read is one half of one of his "Hand of the King's men" books, and that was incredibly mediocre. His King's blades would series would have to be significantly better to earn him a place in legends.

[FicusFan]

Originally posted by Eventine
I'm in Australia, which is usually the same and didn't see a hardcover released at all - there seems to be a trend away from that here at the moment. I do have the trade paperback however.

Thanks Eventine, but Australia is too far to go for the book. :) I don't have to pay for shipping from the UK, I am pretty sure I would from Australia. :(

Thanks Mith I will check amazon.uk in February and see if it comes out. I would normally wait for the US paperback on something like this, but since it takes them years to come out, and they chop it up into 3 books, it looks like I am going to have to shell out for a UK version.

[AuntiePam]

A new Dunk and Egg story is included. I'm psyched. I'm still anti-buying, but this was a preorder, so it doesn't count.

Amazon is shipping these. Here's a partial list of authors/stories (copied from Amazon):

ROBIN HOBB returns to the Realm of the Elderlings with “Homecoming,” a powerful tale in which exiles sent to colonize the Cursed Shores find themselves sinking into an intoxicating but deadly dream . . . or is it a memory?

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN continues the adventures of Dunk, a young hedge knight, and his unusual squire, Egg, in “The Sworn Sword,” set a generation before the events in A Song of Ice and Fire.

ORSON SCOTT CARD tells a tale of Alvin Maker and the mighty Mississippi, featuring a couple of ne’er-do-wells named Jim Bowie and Abe Lincoln, in “The Yazoo Queen.”

DIANE GABALDON turns to an important character from her Outlander saga—Lord John Grey—in “Lord John and the Succubus,” a supernatural thriller set in the early days of the Seven Years War.

ROBERT SILVERBERG spins an enthralling tale of Majipoor’s early history—and remote future—as seen through the eyes of a dilettantish poet who discovers an unexpected destiny in “The Book of Changes.”

TAD WILLIAMS explores the strange afterlife of Orlando Gardiner, from his Otherland saga, in “The Happiest Dead Boy in the World.”

ANNE McCAFFREY shines a light into the most mysterious and
wondrous of all places on Pern in the heartwarming “Beyond Between.”

RAYMOND E. FEIST turns from the great battles of the Riftwar to the story of one soldier, a young man about to embark on the ride of his life, in “The Messenger.”

ELIZABETH HAYDON tells of the destruction of Serendair and the fate of its last defenders in “Threshold,” set at the end of the Third Age of her Symphony of Ages series.

NEIL GAIMAN gives us a glimpse into what befalls the man called Shadow after the events of his Hugo Award–winning novel American Gods in “The Monarch of the Glen.”

TERRY BROOKS adds an exciting epilogue to The Wishsong of Shannara in “Indomitable,” the tale of Jair Ohmsford’s desperate quest to complete the destruction of the evil Ildatch . . . armed only with the magic of illusion.

[ezchaos]

Not to be a downer, and I'm sure most other fantasy fans are excited about this anthology, but the only stories that I'd remotely be interested in would be the Martin and possibly Gaiman ones. All of these other authors don't interest me in the least and I've read just about all of them listed here. :(

I did read the first Legends when it came out and thought it wasn't too bad.