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Scott Oden

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, History, Literature & Fiction

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Robert E. Howard, Harold Lamb, Mary Renault, Steven Pressfield

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Scott Oden is a bestselling author of historical fantasy and sword-and-sorcery. Since his debut in 2005, his books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist; he has been an Amazon Editor’s Pick and has been nominated for a Gemmell Award. His work has been endorsed by such preeminent authors as Steven Pressfield, David Anthony Durham, and John Gwynne.

Scott lives in the foothills of the Appalachians with his lovely wife, Shannon, and a variety of dogs -- all of them neurotic and prone to dancing like no one’s watching.

Before turning his hand to writing, Scott worked the usual slate of odd jobs, from delivering pizza to stocking shelves at a local grocery. In his spare time, he likes table-top roleplaying games, reading ...more

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	Men of Bronze 3.86 avg rating — 687 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memnon 3.97 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 2006 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Gathering of Ravens (Grimnir, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lion of Cairo 3.80 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twilight of the Gods (Grimnir #2) 4.33 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amarante: A Tale of Old Tharduin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scott Oden Presents The Lost Empire of Sol: A Shared World Anthology of Sword & Planet Tales by Scott Oden (Goodreads Author), Jason M. Waltz (Editor), Fletcher Vredenburgh (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The White Lion 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Xenia in the Court of the Winds: A Tale of the Ancient World 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My post on HBO’s Rome being the pinnacle of filmed S&S generated a bit of conversation in online spaces. One question I had is this: what draws you, Gentle Reader, to S&S? Is it the action? The eldritch sorcery? The vibe? The world-building? Or is it all the above? I ask this because, while the... Continue Reading → Read more of this blog post »

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Scott Oden wrote a new blog post The Eldritch and the Weird My post on HBO’s Rome being the pinnacle of filmed S&S generated a bit of conversation in online spaces. One question I had is this: what draws you, Read more of this blog post »
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Scott and 1 other person liked Mogsy (MMOGC)’s status update Mogsy (MMOGC) marked as not-yet-released The Doom of Odin (Grimnir #3)
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Scott made a comment on Dreams and Things " It's weird. Whenever I go to write another character, I'm always thinking what Grimnir would do. With this, it's a chance to explore different element ...more "
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Scott made a comment on Shevatas Has a Title! " Thanks! Me, too! And I hope somewhere, REH and HPL are nodding in approval :) "
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Scott made a comment on Orctober: Why You Should Read A Gathering of Ravens " Yaaaay! Glad to hear it :) "
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Scott made a comment on Orctober: The Doom of Odin Update " Thanks! Yeah, I use an app to limit my online time during my work day. Otherwise, I'll look up and three hours have gone by . . . ...more "
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Scott made a comment on Selling the Past " Robert wrote: "Congratulations! I've read Men of Bronze and think it's great. The new version sounds cool." Thanks! Hopefully it will be :) ...more "
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“This was no game of thrones where generals sacrificed and maneuvered on the backs of their soldiers; this was the most primal sort of conflict—Odin’s weather, the red chaos of slaughter—where men stood breast-to-breast and shield-to-shield, and dealt the same blows they took in kind.”
― Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens

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“It occurred to him that there were many forms of poison, the most insidious being the poison of words. [...] It was a poison with no easy antidote.”
― Scott Oden, Men of Bronze

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“Étaín could have refuted everything Grimnir claimed, had her mind not been shattered from exhaustion; she could have told him that when the earth shook, every man, woman, and child inside Badon shared the same belief: that it was the hand of God, descended to earth to put paid to some nest of sinners, like Sodom and Gomorrah. No, sin was Badon’s downfall, and those whom the Almighty spared would go to their graves hard in the belief that they owed their existence from this day on to divine grace, to piety, and to the love of Christ Jesus.”
― Scott Oden, A Gathering of Ravens

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Polling for Sept-Oct topic(s). Please write in other options and comment if one topic is sufficient, or should we pick the top two.

"Viking Age": books like The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson or Scott Oden's newly released A Gathering of Ravens ...or C. Dean Andersson's Bloodsong! — Hel X 3... or Robert Holdstock's Berserker SF Gateway Omnibus: The Shadow of the Wolf, The Bull Chief, The Horned Warrior

Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 by C. Dean Andersson

Berserker SF Gateway Omnibus The Shadow of the Wolf, The Bull Chief, The Horned Warrior by Robert Holdstock

17 votes, 36.2%

"Off the Planet;" Sword & Planet like Kenneth Bulmer's Dray Prescot Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1); or Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars.

Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1) (Delian Cycle, #1) by Alan Burt Akers

John Carter of Mars (Barsoom, #11) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

13 votes, 27.7%

"Classic William": William Hope Hodgson’s The William Hope Hodgson Megapack: 35 Classic Works or The House on the Borderland and Other Novels OR William Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack 35 Classic Works by William Hope Hodgson

The House on the Borderland and Other Novels by William Hope Hodgson

The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology by William Morris

7 votes, 14.9%

"Goofy stuff": like Myth Adventures (Myth Conceptions) by Robert Lynn Asprin or Terry Pratchett's Disc World ... Colour of Magic - Disc world #1

Myth Conceptions (Myth Adventures, #2) by Robert Lynn Asprin

Colour of Magic - Disc world #1 by Terry Pratchett

6 votes, 12.8%

Classic William (write-in)

2 votes, 4.3%

Goofy stuff (write-in)

1 vote, 2.1%

Off the planet (write-in)

1 vote, 2.1%

william (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

47 total votes

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