Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, his ten-novel fantasy series. His work is characterized by psychological complexity, conceptual abstractness, moral bleakness, and the use of an arcane vocabulary, and has attracted critical praise for its "imagination, vivid characterizations, and fast pace." He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and a Master's degree from Kent State University. He currently resides in New Mexico.
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| - Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, his ten-novel fantasy series. His work is characterized by psychological complexity, conceptual abstractness, moral bleakness, and the use of an arcane vocabulary, and has attracted critical praise for its "imagination, vivid characterizations, and fast pace." He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and a Master's degree from Kent State University. He currently resides in New Mexico.
- Donaldson's most celebrated series is The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, which centers on a cynical leper, shunned by society, who is destined to become the heroic savior of The Land (a world similar to Earth). Covenant struggles against the tyrannical Lord Foul, who intends to break the physical universe in order to escape his bondage and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy "The Creator". Donaldson also authored The Gap Cycle, a science fiction epic set in a future where humans have pushed far out into space in the attempt to replace depleted resources.
- Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He is the author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series, The Gap Sequence, The Man Who series, the Mordant's Need series, and the upcoming The Great God's War trilogy. Donaldson was born in the United States in 1947 and spent a large portion of his youth in India where his father (a doctor) worked with lepers. He returned to the United States in 1963 and eventually completed an M.A. in English Literature.
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| - The Gap Sequence
- Mordant's Need
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
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- Epic Fantasy
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| - Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, his ten-novel fantasy series. His work is characterized by psychological complexity, conceptual abstractness, moral bleakness, and the use of an arcane vocabulary, and has attracted critical praise for its "imagination, vivid characterizations, and fast pace." He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and a Master's degree from Kent State University. He currently resides in New Mexico.
- Donaldson's most celebrated series is The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever, which centers on a cynical leper, shunned by society, who is destined to become the heroic savior of The Land (a world similar to Earth). Covenant struggles against the tyrannical Lord Foul, who intends to break the physical universe in order to escape his bondage and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy "The Creator". Donaldson also authored The Gap Cycle, a science fiction epic set in a future where humans have pushed far out into space in the attempt to replace depleted resources.
- Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He is the author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series, The Gap Sequence, The Man Who series, the Mordant's Need series, and the upcoming The Great God's War trilogy. Donaldson was born in the United States in 1947 and spent a large portion of his youth in India where his father (a doctor) worked with lepers. He returned to the United States in 1963 and eventually completed an M.A. in English Literature. He published his first book Lord Foul's Bane in 1977. This was the first volume in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever trilogy, which has received critical acclaim from critics as well as readers.
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