This collection of narratives ranges in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring. It comprises such elements as Gandalf's account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the party at Bag-End and stories of the Five Wizards.

A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world...

"Carefully reallocating the Time of Discworld to where it is most needed, Monk of History Lu Tze and his apprentice begin a literal race against time when the world's first truly accurate clock threatens to stop Time forever."--from NoveList.

William de Worde begins the first newspaper on Discworld and discovers investigative journalism.

Presents a collection of speculative science fiction tales that envision the future and reimagine the past in settings ranging from the coal mines of China to the edges of frontier space.