Stephen R. Donaldson

Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. His works range from the conventional "space opera" style of science fiction to "sword and sorcery" fantasy.

The Covenant Books

Main article: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever

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Donaldson's most celebrated character is Thomas Covenant, a cynical leprosy-sufferer, shunned and despised by society, who is destined to become the heroic saviour of an alternate Earth (or, perhaps, only of his own sanity?). Covenant struggles against the evil Lord Foul - "The Despiser" - who intends to break the physical universe to escape its bondage and wreak revenge upon his arch-enemy "The Creator".

Related Topics:
Thomas Covenant - Leprosy - Lord Foul

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The story of Covenant was told originally across two trilogies of novels published between 1977 and 1983. A third series, "The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" began publication in 2004.

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