泰德•威廉姆斯（Tad Williams）

世界著名科奇幻作傢，1957年3月生於美國加利福尼亞州。

他的作品在全球範圍內暢銷百萬冊。主要代錶作品為史詩奇幻、史詩科幻、都會奇幻小說，以及漫畫和劇本等。泰德·威廉姆斯的作品影響瞭一代作傢的創作。比如著名奇幻小說作傢喬治•R.R.馬丁就對泰德贊不絕口，錶示正是讀瞭他的書，纔悟齣奇幻文學的創作可以有如此多的可能性，他的代錶作《冰與火之歌》在故事構架和敘述手法上延承其甚多。

泰德·威廉姆斯的代錶作主要有：霧影四部麯之《霧影邊境》（Shadowmarch）、《霧影遊戲》（Shadowplay）、《霧影升騰》（Shadowrise）、《霧影之心》（Shadowheart），《迴憶、悲傷與荊棘》（Memory, Sorrow and Thorn），《異國》（Otherland）等。其中霧影四部麯榮獲德國幻想文學奬，入圍鵝毛筆大奬、英國幻想文學奬，並被《軌跡》雜誌評為年度最佳奇幻小說。

Darkness has fallen on the lands of the sun as an army of misshapen fey spill out from beyond the Shadowline. At their head is Yasammez, dark creature of nightmare. A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch and the castle was spared, but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased. Meanwhile Barrick, heir to Southmarch and cursed with madness, has crossed the Shadowline into the realm of his people’s ancient enemy. There are stranger things than death here - stranger and older.

Much further south, shadow is also falling over the reign of the Autarch, god-king and supreme ruler. Quinnitan, junior wife, must flee the royal household or die, her greatest secret as yet hidden even from herself. Ancient blood flows through her veins and she will become a unique weapon in the fight against her greatest terror.

And beyond the ken of all but a chosen few, the gods are awakening and the world is changing …