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from the Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" group.
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Recently finished Gerald W. Page and Hank Reinhardt's Heroic Fantasy, and my opinion is that you can either seek out this excellent collection, or you can skip a step and go right to the authors and their series: Adrian Cole's The Voidal, Tanith Lee's Cyrion, E.C. Tubb's Malkar (Did you know he wrote sword and sorcery? I didn't), Charles Saunder's Imaro, Darrell Schweitzer, F. Paul Wilson, Don Walsh, and so forth. This book is a gateway drug to more to-read items.
AlamoJack wrote: "I've heard good things about [Dan Abnett's] Warhammer 40K books but not much out his fantasy writings."His Fell Cargo was excellent, if you can find it.
Just finished Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, set within Steven Erikson's Malazan Empire. Highly recommended, but has a dark comic tone that may not be to all tastes.
Has anyone read beyond the first book in The Birthgrave series?
Joseph wrote: "Flat Earth is my favorite series of hers, and somewhere in my top five all-time favorite series by anyone."Good to know! Thanks!
Has anyone read far into the Tales from the Flat Earth series? I just finished Night's Master and thought it was excellent...
Charles wrote: "Many of you may already have it, but in case not, I've made my fantasy tale, "Harvest of War" free for the Kindle today and wanted to spread the word.Thank you!
It never held together: there were too many cases where characters had to ignore the obvious or unreasonably delay action in order for events to progress as they did. I kept asking myself "why haven't these idiots been caught yet?"
Gave The Weight of Blood a read, but was very unimpressed. Ratings trend higher than mine, and the Kindle version is free.
How would this august assembly categorize kobolds in this discussion? Orc, Goblin, or "Get out of here, vermin"?Ren of Atikala
Has anyone else here run across "The Brazen Peacock" in their reading? It was never published during REH's lifetime, and has only appeared in a few places, in particular Swords of Shahrazar, where I encountered it this month.It's not very noteworthy in itself--a secret city of evil, a greedy idiot who doesn't understand the importance of not blackmailing a death cult, and a strong-thewed, whalebone-and-steel-spring hero to set matters right--but it has an intersection with world current events. REH had taken a real religious/ethnic sect and menaced it up into a cult of vicious devil-worshipers, borrowing their name, city, and religious imagery for the story.
That group is the Yazidi, of northern Iraq, who recently have come under attack by Al-Qaeda separatists, and who have historically been characterized as devil-worshipers.
Charles wrote: "I've started reading Zanthar of the Many Worlds by Robert Moore Williams. Gotta say it's not impressing me so far. I put up a blog post about my initial impressions, http://charlesgramlich.blogspot..."I'll save you some time: It doesn't improve.
S.E. wrote: "By the beauty of Amazon, I just received the The Morgaine Saga, by CJ Cherryh that includes Gate of Ivrel..."Coincidence! My copy of The Book of Morgaine arrived today.
For those who are interested, I've reviewed Master of the Etrax by Robert Lory.(In brief: if you like Cugel the Clever, read Cugel the Clever instead.)
Hello, all. I'm Derek and I've been quietly lurking in the group for entirely too long.I'm a fan of really obscure, little-known fantasy works, and am looking forward to the September/October group read.
