Dragonworld

✍ Scribed by Byron Preiss; Michael Reaves

• Publisher: iBooks
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 648 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

“Dragonworld
goes far beyond the flashy pyrotechnics of contemporary fantasy and fantasy
illustration. Joe Zucker is a superlative and original illustrator, and he
reveals a rare and astonishing gift for infusing a richness of character into
his pictures, which do justice to Byron Preiss's and Michael Reaves's
compelling story.”

—Maurice
Sendak

“Until now, there have been only two real
grandmasters of modern epic fantasy—J.R.R. Tolkien and Ann McCaffrey. With the team of Preiss and Reaves, there are
three, and may they write and write and write.” —United Press International

Somewhere
beyond the northern mists lies a land where dreams live and dragons are real.
This is the tale of the twilight of the dragons, of two nations plunged into
war by a tragic misunderstanding, of a shy dreamer's incredible voyage of peace
to a long-forgotten land where nightmares are born. A magnificent creation, a
sweeping epic of high fantasy set in a richly imagined world, vividly brought to
life with over eighty pages of stunning illustrations by Joseph Zucker.

Byron
Preiss is the author of THE ULTIMATE DRAGON and THE WHITE HOUSE MOUSE. Michael
Reeves is also a successful science fiction writer.

The late Byron Preiss had
been active in the design and development of software since the early 1980s. In
1984 Preiss produced Fehrenheit 451 based on the novel by Ray Bradbury. His
interactive adventure game, Dragonworld, was voted Best Adventure Game
of the Year (1985). He developed a line of interactive children’s classics for
Spinnaker Software. Mr. Preiss had also been involved in audio and video
software. His project, The Words of Gandhi, won the Grammy Award for
Best Spoken World Recording. He was co-producer of the acclaimed Bank Street
Ready-to-Read videos.