What year did the author, who wrote "The Weapon Master's Choice" publish his first series?
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The Weapon Master's Choice "The Weapon Master’s Choice" is a fantasy short story by Terry Brooks in his "Shannara" series. It is the second in a trilogy of short stories that make up the "Paladins of Shannara" series, first published in 2013.
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Shannara Shannara is a series of high fantasy novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with "The Sword of Shannara" in 1977 and continuing through "The Sorcerer's Daughter" which was released in May 2016; there is also a prequel, "First King of Shannara". The series blends magic and primitive technology and is set in the Four Lands, which are identified as Earth long after civilization was destroyed in a chemical and nuclear holocaust called the Great Wars. By the time of the prequel "First King of Shannara", the world had reverted to a pre-industrial state and magic had re-emerged to supplement science.
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The Ring of Charon The Ring of Charon is a science fiction book by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, first published in 1990 by Tor Books. It is the first in a series of three (although the third book has yet to be published) books under the name of "The Hunted Earth".
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List of authors in the Executioner series The Executioner (aka Mack Bolan) is a monthly men's action-adventure paperback series of books. It has spanned several spinoffs and imitators over its four decades in print and currently has #423 installments (as of February 2014) that have sold more than 200 million copies. Created and initially written by American author Don Pendleton in 1969 who wrote 37 of the original 38 Bolan books (#16 was written by one "Jim Petersen" during a legal dispute between Pendleton and Pinnacle) before he licensed the rights to Gold Eagle in 1980. Since 1981, the series has been written collectively by a series of ghostwriters.
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The Baby-Sitters Club The Baby-Sitters Club (also known as BSC) is a series of novels written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000, that sold 176 million copies. Martin wrote the first 35 books in the series, but the subsequent novels were written by ghostwriters, such as Peter Lerangis and many uncredited others.
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The Sum of All Men The Sum of All Men is the first novel in David Farland's epic fantasy series The Runelords. First published in 1998, the novel has been printed under a number of names, including "The Sum of All Men", "The Runelords", and "The Runelords: The Sum of All Men".
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The Weapon Makers The Weapon Makers is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer A. E. van Vogt.
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Tom Swift Tom Swift is the main character of five series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention and technology. First published in 1910, the series total more than 100 volumes. The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm. Tom's adventures have been written by various ghostwriters, beginning with Howard Garis. Most of the books are credited to the collective pseudonym "Victor Appleton". The 33 volumes of the second series use the pseudonym Victor Appleton II for the author. For this series, and some of the later series, the main character is "Tom Swift, Jr." New titles have been published as recently as 2007. Most of the various series emphasized Tom's inventions. The books generally describe the effects of science and technology as wholly beneficial, and the role of the inventor in society as admirable and heroic.
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Mistborn: The Final Empire Mistborn: The Final Empire, also known simply as Mistborn or The Final Empire, is a fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. It was published on July 17, 2006 by Tor Books and is the first novel in the "Mistborn trilogy", followed by "" in 2007 and "" in 2008.
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How to Train Your Dragon How to Train Your Dragon is a series of twelve children's books written by British author Cressida Cowell. The books are set in a fictional Viking world and focus on the experiences of protagonist Hiccup as he overcomes great obstacles on his journey of Becoming a Hero the Hard Way. The books were published by Hodder Children's Books in the UK and by Little, Brown and Company in the US. The first book was published in 2003 and the last one in 2015. As of 2015, the series has sold more than seven million copies around the world.
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Parable of the Sower (novel) Parable of the Sower is the first in a two-book series of science fiction novels by American writer Octavia E. Butler. It was published in 1993.
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The Rising Force The Rising Force by Dave Wolverton is the first in a series of young reader novels called "". The only novel of the series to be written by Dave Wolverton, it was released on May 3, 1999. The series explores the adventures of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi prior to "".
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Legends of Shannara Legends of Shannara is the title of a series of novels written by Terry Brooks. The first book, "Bearers of the Black Staff", was released by Del Rey Books on August 24, 2010 in the United States. These novels bridge the "Genesis of Shannara series" with the "Shannara" series, two other series by Brooks. They cover events which took place five hundred years after The Great Wars.
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Birth of Fire Birth of Fire is a science fiction novel by American writer Jerry Pournelle. It was first published by Laser Books in 1976, later published by Baen Books. It is related to the books "Exiles to Glory" and "High Justice", and with those two, form a starting point for the CoDominium series.
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Nick Carter-Killmaster Nick Carter-Killmaster is a series of spy adventures published from 1964 until 1990, first by Award Books, then by Ace Books, and finally by Jove Books. At least 261 novels were published. The character is an update of a pulp fiction private detective named Nick Carter first published in 1886.
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Jaime Lannister Jaime Lannister is a fictional character in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its television adaptation "Game of Thrones". He becomes a prominent point of view character in the novels beginning in "A Storm of Swords" (2000).
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Sharpe's Eagle (novel) Sharpe's Eagle is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1981. The story is set in July 1809, in the midst of the Talavera Campaign during the Peninsular War. It was the first Sharpe novel published, but eighth in the series' chronological order.
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Death's Master Death's Master is the second novel in Tanith Lee's fantasy series Tales from the Flat Earth. It won the British Fantasy Award for best novel of 1979.
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The Faerie Wars Chronicles The Faerie Wars Chronicles is a fantasy action young adult novel series written by James Herbert Brennan. The first book in the series, "Faerie Wars" was published in the United Kingdom in February 2003 by Bloomsbury Publishing. As of 2011, there are five books in the on-going series.
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Able Team Able Team is a series of action-adventure novels first published in 1982 by American Gold Eagle publishers. It is a spin-off of the "Executioner" series created by Don Pendleton.
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Katherine Kurtz Katherine Irene Kurtz is an American fantasy writer, known for her sixteen historical fantasy novels in the "Deryni" series. She also wrote several occult alternate history novels in her "Templar" series, and urban fantasy novels in her "Adept" series.
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Jacqueline Rayner Jacqueline Rayner is a best selling British author, best known for her work with the licensed fiction based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who".