[Timboli]

Most of his books have been released as ebooks. I think it was just the first trilogy and duology that hadn't been until now ... duology to come.

FYI - The duology was written first and in a different form, as it was originally written as a sequel to The Lord Of The Rings, while he was in a full body cast after a motorbike accident. He even later, somewhat naively, tried to get the Tolkien estate to allow him to publish it, but they politely refused. He had a publisher interested though, and they requested he rewrite it with significant changes, and do a prequel to match, to take the place of The Lord Of The Rings. So he did both and they published the prequel (The Iron Tower) first. The publisher were the ones who decided to split it into a trilogy ... in a way echoing what happened to Tolkien with LOTR.

Yes, the cover is pretty ordinary, and I suspect deliberately so ... and it does relate to a big part of the story. The cover for the first omnibus edition is pretty good, and easily found on the web, and I grabbed it myself to use as a replacement, but then changed my mind, and kept to the plain eclipse like version.

There is a number of typos in that new introduction, possibly as has been suggested, due to his age. It seems Dennis was involved with the conversion to ebook, albeit with some kind of help. Perhaps it has even been done on the cheap.

It feels to me, like he has released the ebook version with no big fanfare deliberately. It is there now for his fans etc who want the ebook (been clamoring for it), but maybe due to his age, he is hoping to avoid the old controversy surfacing again. Good luck to him.

P.S. I don't think he has written anything in a while now, so maybe he isn't well etc ... perhaps feeling his mortality.