Knight Eternal (A Novel of Epic Fantasy) (Harbinger of Doom Volume 3) (29 page)

Ranal
: a black metal, hard as steel and half as heavy, weapons
made of it can affect creatures of Nifleheim

Ring of the
Magi
: amplifies a wizard’s power; one of
twenty created by Talidousen

ABOUT
GLENN G. THATER

For more than twenty-five
years, Glenn G. Thater has written works of fiction and historical
fiction that focus on the genres of epic fantasy and sword and
sorcery. His published works of fiction include the first four
volumes of the Harbinger of Doom saga:
Gateway to Nifleheim
,
The Fallen Angle
,
Knight Eternal
,
and
Dwellers of the Deep;
the novella,
The
Gateway;
and the novelette,
The
Hero and the
Fiend.

Mr. Thater holds a Bachelor of Science
degree in Physics with concentrations in Astronomy and Religious
Studies, and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering,
specializing in Structural Engineering. He has undertaken advanced
graduate study in Classical Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical
Mechanics, and Astrophysics, and is a practicing licensed
professional engineer specializing in the multidisciplinary
alteration and remediation of buildings, and the forensic
investigation of building failures and other disasters.

Mr. Thater has investigated failures and
collapses of numerous structures around the United States and
internationally. Since 1998, he has served on the American Society
of Civil Engineers' Technical Council on Forensic Engineering
(TCFE), is a member of that Council’s Executive Committee, and is
the past Chairman of TCFE's Committee on Practices to Reduce
Failures. Mr. Thater is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Accredited Professional and has testified as
an expert witness in the field of structural engineering before the
Supreme Court of the State of New York.

Mr. Thater is an author of numerous
scientific papers, magazine articles, engineering textbook
chapters, and countless engineering reports. He has lectured across
the United States and internationally on such topics as the World
Trade Center collapses, bridge collapses, and on the construction
and analysis of the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington
D.C.

BOOKS BY GLENN G. THATER

THE HARBINGER OF DOOM
SAGA

GATEWAY TO NIFLEHEIM

THE FALLEN ANGLE

KNIGHT ETERNAL

DWELLERS OF THE DEEP

VOLUME 5+ forthcoming

THE HERO AND THE FIEND

(A novelette set in the Harbinger of Doom
universe)

THE GATEWAY

(A novella length version
of
Gateway to Nifleheim
)

HARBINGER OF DOOM

(Combines
Gateway to Nifleheim
and
The Fallen Angle
into a single volume)