Star of the Guardians
| Author | Margaret Weis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Star of the Guardians |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Bantam Spectra |
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Publication date
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1990 |
| Media type | Print ( ) |
| Pages | 458 (paperback) |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 22338178 |
| Preceded by | none |
| Followed by | King's Test |
| Author | Margaret Weis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Star of the Guardians |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Bantam Spectra |
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Publication date
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1991 |
| Media type | Print ( ) |
| Pages | (paperback) |
| ISBN | |
| Preceded by | The Lost King |
| Followed by | King's Sacrifice |
| Author | Margaret Weis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Star of the Guardians |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Bantam Spectra |
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Publication date
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1991 |
| Media type | Print ( ) |
| Pages | 520 (paperback) |
| ISBN | |
| Preceded by | King's Test |
| Followed by | Ghost Legion |
| Author | Margaret Weis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Star of the Guardians |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Bantam Spectra |
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Publication date
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1993 |
| Media type | Print ( ) |
| Pages | 534 (paperback) |
| ISBN | |
| Preceded by | King's Sacrifice |
| Followed by | none |
Star of the Guardians is a series of fantasy novels by Margaret Weis. The series consists of several volumes:
Star of the Guardians is a series of four science fiction / space opera novels written by Margaret Weis without assistance from usual co-author Tracy Hickman. The original trilogy, The Lost King, King's Test and King's Sacrifice, concerns Dion's adventures and eventual rise to the throne. A few years later, Margaret Weis realized that, while Dion had achieved his goals, the main characters of the series (sundered lovers Sagan and Maigrey) had not achieved peace, and penned the fourth book, Ghost Legion.
She has since completed a trilogy of spin-offs concerning the mercenary team Mag Force 7 introduced in King's Sacrifice. Based originally on The Magnificent Seven, the team developed a much more varied membership just in time to star in their own novels: The Knights of the Black Earth, Robot Blues and Hung Out. Weis and Don Perrin released a collectible card game under the name "Mag Force 7".
The Lost King (1990): Seventeen-year-old Dion Starfire has lived on a backwater planet, Syrac 7, with Platus Morianna for his entire life, but that life is about to turn upside down as Sagan has finally found them. Platus contacts Mendaharin "Tusk" Tusca, the son of an old friend, and pays him to take Dion off-planet. Platus himself stays behind and buys time with his life. Tusk and Dion travel to the planet Vangelis to seek the advice of General John Dixter. Sagan, for his part, manages to track down Maigrey Morianna who has also been off-radar for seventeen years. The fact that they were once lovers does not stop him from arresting her as a monarchist and sentencing her to trial. Sagan then travels to Vangelis to help put down the rebellion (i.e., Dixter's forces). Dion goes voluntarily to the Warlord's flagship, where Sagan and Maigrey informed him of his true heritage. The novel is punctuated by an attack from the Corasians, an alien race bent on conquering our galaxy.
King's Test (1991): Though Dixter's mercenaries fought honorably beside Sagan's forces to repel the Corasians, Sagan orders them killed at the end of The Lost King; at the beginning of King's Test, which picks up moments after, Dion sallies out to save his friends. He flees with Tusk and Nola (Tusk's new girlfriend), though Dixter was captured. Maigrey leaves as well, traveling to the nauseous planet of Laskar, where a weapons magnate named Snaga Ohme has been building a new weapon. This space-rotation bomb, designed by Sagan and intended for his purchase, could theoretically destroy the entire universe. Maigrey buys it by selling her soul, in the form of her starjewel, only to realize that said jewel is the bomb's arming key. Meanwhile, Dion, Tusk and Nola travel to Laskar as well, called by a distress call ostensibly from Maigrey, but actually sent by Abdiel, leader and only remaining member of the Order of the Black Lightning. These mind-seizers, as they are informally called, use their Blood Royal telepathy and nanobiotic machines to take control of their followers' minds. Finally, Sagan arrives as well, having learned that Dion is now in the grip of the most manipulative man alive. The action culminates in a weapons exhibition at Ohme's, where Maigrey retrieves her starjewel, Dion publicly declares himself king and Sagan swears his fealty to him, Dion attempts to kill Sagan on Abdiel's advice, and Sagan is forced to cede the bomb to his new king. Abdiel, for his part, escapes.
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