# Someone explain the DragonLance books to me

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**Created:** [May 10, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-dragonlance-books-to-me/64961 "2001-05-10T04:15:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-dragonlance-books-to-me/64961/21 "2001-05-12T23:25:25Z")

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there is a new book out, the first of a series by weis and hickman, that looks to make the dragonlance spinoffs more bearable.

essentaly, right before chaos stomps tasselhoff into a blood splat, tas uses that time travel rod to go forward to see how things turn out after his death.

when he reaches the future, he sort of says ‘WTF?!?’ and exclaims that things are all messed up from the last time he came to the future, and he tries to figure out what is happening, and correct it.

I’m not sure what the name of the new series is though. i think it might be _The Souls War_.

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**Author:** ![saepiroth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@saepiroth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saepiroth)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-dragonlance-books-to-me/64961/22 "2001-05-12T23:28:26Z")

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Oops!

i forgot to say that it also tries to clear up the bad spinoffs by showing that they never really happened- it was all just part of a kink in the flow of time.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-dragonlance-books-to-me/64961/23 "2001-05-13T02:39:08Z")

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**Monstre** , I’m not sure if that’s it. Anyone else recognize those plot events? Girl turns out to be a dragon? Guy goes in Labrynth?

I don’t remember if it was minotaur, but perhaps. I will check it out. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-explain-the-dragonlance-books-to-me/64961/24 "2001-05-13T04:17:27Z")

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> don’t you know by now that Barbara Hambly is incapable of writing a bad book?

I am a tremendous fan of Hambly. (If I had the time, I might even read her Romance novels.) However, I defy anyone to defend the utter _deus ex machina_ resolution she plopped into the end ot the **Dark** trilogy.

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