Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
The architects of Dragonlance — and one of fantasy's most beloved long-running co-writing partnerships.
Weis and Hickman built Dragonlance from the ground up — beginning with the Chronicles trilogy in the 1980s and expanding into the Legends, the War of Souls, and dozens of additional books. They also wrote the Death Gate Cycle, the Darksword Trilogy, and the Dragonships of Vindras together. Their writing partnership is one of the genre's most enduring: Hickman often credited with structural and worldbuilding work, Weis with character and prose, the result greater than the sum. Their protagonists — Raistlin Majere among them — have become genre touchstones.
For readers who want classic epic fantasy delivered by writers who clearly love it. Mostly older teen and adult; content is generally restrained for the genre — combat violence yes, but sexual content minimal and language clean. The reading experience is the warm familiarity of well-crafted secondary-world fantasy, with characters who matter across multi-trilogy arcs. Pick this shelf when you want classic D&D-adjacent epic fantasy at its most beloved, written by collaborators who've made it their lives' work.
- Classic epic fantasy at its warmest
- Characters who matter across trilogies
- Co-writing partnership at its most enduring
- D&D-adjacent worldbuilding done right
