Title: The Runes of the Earth

Title: The Runes of the Earth Title Record # 153337
Author: Stephen R. Donaldson
Date: 2004-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: Ten years after the death of Thomas Covenant, Dr. Linden Avery, his companion at the end, is caretaker to Covenant's mentally ill wife, Joan. When Covenant and Joan's son, Roger, attains legal majority and demands Joan be released to his care Linden refuses, sensing something wrong about Roger. This results in her being shot apparently fatally and regaining consciousness in the Land once again, this time along with her adopted son Jeremiah, Joan, and Roger. Thousands of years have passed and the oppressive evil of Lord Foul has become the new normal, now with the added power of Joan's madness and Roger's evil. Linden must battle this evil, while at the same time finding Jeremiah and saving him from Lord Foul.

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Translations

Year	Title
2004	The Runes of the Earth [as by Stephen Donaldson]

Year	Language	Title
2005^ⓘTranslated by Annemarie Lodewijk	Dutch	De runen van aarde [as by Stephen Donaldson]
2006^ⓘTranslated by Wulf Bergner	German	Die Runen der Erde [as by Stephen Donaldson]

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	2005 World Fantasy	Best Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Runes of the Earth	2004-10-00	Stephen R. Donaldson	Putnam	0-399-15232-6	$26.95^?$: US dollar	xx+ 532+ [1]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Michael Whelan
The Runes of the Earth	2004-10-00	Stephen R. Donaldson	G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC	1171559	$14.99^?$: US dollar	594	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Michael Whelan
The Runes of the Earth	2005-04-00	Stephen R. Donaldson	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07599-6	£12.99^?£: UK pound	593	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Laura Brett
The Runes of the Earth	2005-09-00	Stephen R. Donaldson	Ace Books	0-441-01304-X	$16.00^?$: US dollar	532	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Michael Whelan
The Runes of the Earth	2015-05-00	Stephen R. Donaldson	Ace Books	978-1-101-20837-3	$14.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	John Jude Palencar
The Runes of the Earth	date unknown	Stephen R. Donaldson	Ace Books	978-0-441-01304-3			tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	John Jude Palencar

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Reviews

Review by William Senior (2004) in Locus, #525 October 2004
Review by Vikki Lee France (2004) in Interzone, #195 November-December 2004
Review by Ian Nichols (2004) in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #16, December 2004/January 2005
Review by John C. Bunnell (2004) in Amazing Stories, December 2004
Review by Michelle West (2005) in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2005
Review by Andrew A. Adams (2005) in Vector 242