Realms of dragons

"In 1983 the literary world was surprised - and even shocked - when a paper-back Dungeons & Dragons fantasy by an unknown team of authors rocketed to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there."--BOOK JACKET. "This literary guide and companion introduces both the authors and their worlds. Extensive biographical interviews with Weis and Hickman reveal their characters, their separate histories, their ongoing working relationship, their years at TSR and in the gaming world, and their subsequent success - including the legendary Travelling Road Show that helped establish their success."--BOOK JACKET. "But the heart of this lavishly illustrated book is the worlds themselves. Realms of Dragons contains five separate, comprehensive, authoritative concordances - each complete from A to Z - that detail, explicate, explain, and often illustrate every important character, event, element, and incident in every book in every series."--BOOK JACKET.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fantasy, Fiction, Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.