Enwor saga

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The Enwor Saga is a fantasy - novels of German authors Wolfgang Hohlbein and Dieter Winkler , who also elements of post-apocalyptic fiction and science fiction has. Essentially, the adventures of the members of a warrior caste in the fantasy world Enwor, which is North America in the future , but which is interspersed with elements typical of fantasy ( magic , dragons , non-human creatures, etc.) are dealt with . The series now includes several short stories and over a dozen novels.

History of origin

The two authors, who are friends, designed a fantasy world ( science fantasy ) interspersed with elements of science fiction , which takes place in a distant post-apocalyptic future on the American continent and was initially called "EndWorld". Winkler developed the characters Skar and Del, who became the heroes of his first short story "Malicia". Hohlbein contributed other ideas such as the almost indestructible Chekal swords and the Quorrl, gigantic reptilian creatures. "EndWorld" was later modified to "Enwor".

Since Dieter Winkler was busy with his diploma thesis , Hohlbein single- handedly wrote the first Enwor novel The Wandering Forest . Then they wanted to continue writing the series together, but Winkler took a job at the computer magazine CHIP . Hohlbein then wrote the first ten volumes of the Enwor saga alone.

While The Wandering Forest still had a self-contained plot, the next four volumes, which followed within a short time, were thematically based on one another. The sixth volume "The Return of the Gods" was published three years later and realigned the series: The protagonist Skar wakes up there three hundred years later and finds a now changed Enwor. After completing the tenth volume The Forbidden Islands in 1989, Hohlbein initially turned to other projects.

At the end of the nineties, Hohlbein and Winkler designed the narrative framework for three more Enwor novels. The eleventh book was published in 1999 by Weitbrecht Verlag , which Winkler concealed as a co-author and used the more popular name Hohlbein. However, the publisher was sold and redesigned shortly after publication. From 2004 Piper Verlag published another Enwor series: Wolfgang Hohlbein's Enwor - New Adventure was written by Dieter Winkler and deals with a much later plot with new main characters, the two Satai Daart and Carnac.

Today there are a total of 15 volumes in stores. It is believed that the saga should be continued even further, as all the storylines are not yet finished at the end of Volume 15. So far, however, there have been no indications from either Winkler or Hohlbein that new volumes are planned.

In 1991 an RPG book was published under the title The Island of the Star Beast .

With the novel cycle "Garth and Torian" there is also a novel cycle of a similar kind, also written by Hohlbein in the 1980s: It is about the two warriors Garth and Torian who experience adventures in a fantasy world called Caracon.

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Short stories

  • "Malicia"
  • "Vela, the witch"
  • "The day before Armageddon"
  • "The Temple of Immortality"

The Enwor saga

Enwor - New Adventure

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