The Burning Man
short fiction 1998 Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / Osten Ard
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | short fiction |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780976401117 |
Synopsis
A novelette set in Osten Ard in the age before Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, first published in Robert Silverberg's anthology Legends (1998), whose publishers describe it as a dark and enthralling story of a great and haunted castle. Ages after the castle's first masters, the unlucky Lord Sulis, the Heron King, has found refuge from his pursuers in the gloomy, decaying fortress that will become the Hayholt of the trilogy and where the secret of the burning man lies. It was later collected in Williams's Rite: Short Work (2006) and adapted, with Raymond E. Feist's The Wood Boy, into a graphic novel by the Dabel Brothers in 2005.
Where it sits
- Universe: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / Osten Ard
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Tad Williams
Notes
- Novelette (Legends anthology).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / Osten Ard (standalone work): position 4 of 10: previous To Green Angel Tower (1993) · next The Heart of What Was Lost (2017)
Sources
- https://www.tadwilliams.com/books/bibliography/
- Wikipedia: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
- Tor (publisher description of Legends)
- Klett-Cotta (German publisher's description, via the book's record)
- Wikipedia (Tad Williams bibliography)
- Wikipedia (Legends anthology)
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