Quag Keep

By Andre Norton

Book Overview

In 1976 Andre Norton was invited to play a new sort of adventure game by its creator. It was the game that launched the role-playing game industry, Dungeons & Dragons. The creator, E.Gary Gygax, was the head of TSR Industries, the company he formed to sell his game. Gygax played the game with Andre, introducing her to his world of Greyhawk where she took part in an imaginative session of world building, role playing, and fantasy adventuring, after which she returned home and wrote the novel Quag Keep , a tale of six adventurers from our world who journey from our world to the city of Greyhawk in order to aid a wizard and unlock the secrets of the stronghold of Quag Keep.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765351552
• ISBN13: 9780765351555
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.1" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Great Light Reading

Pretty good fantasy book. It reminds of a series of books I read many years ago about a group of kids who played this type of fantasy game and were tranferred to the world they played in, in real life. If only I could remember what that series was! This really reminded me of it, and I enjoy reading a lightly written, character driven fantasy book. I have both Quag Keep and Return to Quag Keep. Too bad there wasn't a 3rd book written, it really begs for it. Maybe Jean Rabe will write it now that the Quag books have been re-issued.

Started it all...

With the recent passing of Ms Norton, I am reminded of her books, which I read as a little girl back in the 70's. I must admit, this book fuelled an interest in RPGs. It's a kids book, and it's well written and it's fun, but it's not high fantasy and it's not a timeless classic, it's not George RR Martin or Robert Jordan, but so what? It's enjoyable nonetheless, and I have fond memories of all of Norton's writing from reading them as a kid. Give this book to your 11 year old, and they'll be amused as well.

Quag Keep

I found Quag Keep to be a very interesting book. While it defiantly is different from the Role Playing Games we are used to and the Dragon Lance books about these games it is better for its differences. While at times the book is a little slow the storyline and characters are interesting. I don't think the book was meant to be exactly like the RPG, thus it can appeal to people who don't play RPGs. But if a person is simply looking for a book based solely on RPGs, Dragon Lance is certainly the series to read. Ms. Norton did an excellent job in the book Quag Keep.