Linda P. Baker

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Linda P. Baker is an American fantasy author closely associated with the Dragonlance franchise, where she has both collaborated on anthologies and written standalone novels. Her contributions to major Dragonlance short-story collections include The Dragons of Krynn (1989), co-authored with Margaret Weis and others, as well as The Dragons at War (1992), The Dragons of Chaos (1998), Heroes and Fools (2000), and More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home (2002). She also contributed to the gaming reference book The History of Dragonlance (2000). As a solo novelist, Baker wrote The Irda (1998), part of the Lost Histories series, which focuses on an intelligent and cruel ogre civilization within the setting's mythology. She co-authored Tears of the Night Sky (2000) with fellow Dragonlance writer Nancy Varian Berberick as part of the Chaos War series, and later contributed to War of Souls-era publications including Rebels and Tyrants (2002) and The Search for Magic (2003), cementing her role as a recurring voice across multiple eras of the Dragonlance timeline.

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Books

• The Irda (1995) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Tears of the Night Sky (1998) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 17 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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