Steve’s Comments (group member since Mar 07, 2020)

Steve’s comments from the Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" group.

Absolutely! Tierney been out of the lime light too long. One of the genre's unsung heroes, in my opinion.

SORCERY AGAINST CAESAR. A new affordable paperback/kindle omnibus collecting all the Simon of Gitta short stories. Richard L. Tierney is one of the best sword-&-sorcery writers of the '70s and '80s. Alongside David C. Smith, Charles Saunders and Brian Lumley, he helped keep the genre alive when it was on the wane in the mainstream market place.
https://www.amazon.com/Sorcery-Agains...

The Joy of Erudition wrote: "It's a bit silly of me, but I'm doing most of my fiction magazine reading now, because Goodreads has no record of most of these magazines from the early 20th century, and so they don't count toward..."
I enjoyed 'The ghouls of Venus' and 'Death hordes of Lemuria' quite a bit. Schlock s.f. pulp in the old school style! I'm not sure, but, despite the blurb accompanying the latter story, I suspect they might have both been written by the same writer...

At last! After almost two years of publishers changing hands, controversial introductions, replaced editors, and name changes, it's great to finally see this anthology out. Kudos to Bob McLain and Jason Ray Carney for doing such stellar work. My own novelette, 'Tale of the Uncrowned Kings', is re-written from something I originally wrote back in my teens. I had a lot of fun with it. Some of the other stories I've had the fortune to read in the proofs they sent. You won't be disappointed. Good sword-&-sorcery... old school style!

Outside of the realms of fantasy and s.f., some of my other favourite writers include Charles Bukowski, J.G. Ballard, Oscar Wilde and P.G. Wodehouse. I just finished re-reading MOTHER NIGHT by Kurt Vonnegut, one of my all time favourite novels.

Editor Stephen Jones told me that he pitched the idea of releasing Wagner's Kane novels to Gollancz for his FANTASY MASTERWORKS series over here in the U.K. That was after he had already done the two Howard Conan omnibus volumes that had proven successful. Gollancz were excited about the idea but then, without any explanation, got cold feet. Jones was a good friend of Karl's and genuinely sounded disappointed about the deal falling through.

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