Joseph’s Comments (group member since Oct 24, 2012)

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

And I read Lycanthia: or The Children of Wolves (which is a great kind of gothic feeling story, albeit not really S&S) and started The Dragon Hoard, which I think might be her first?, and is much more imaginary world fantasy.

I just started Volkhavaar, which I expect will be the first of several of Lee's books I read.

Finished All the Seas of the World, which was deeply good, and started Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions, which I've inexplicably never read before.

I started Guy Gavriel Kay's All the Seas of the World, which is obviously not S&S, but it's less not S&S than most of his other books, at least so far. And I'm enjoying it immensely, as I've done with his other books.

Since it was May the Fourth last week, I started Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule, the first of the High Republic novels (set a couple hundred years before the events of the movies).

Reading Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven for the first time in many, many years.

Just started Swordsmen from the Stars, a collection of three early (1950s) sword & planet adventure stories by Poul Anderson. I know I've read at least one or two (or maybe all three) of these before in various anthologies, but it's nice to have them all in a single collection.

Yes, very nicely put!

I'll only add that Delirium's Mistress (the fourth book) is a direct continuation of Delusion's Master (the third book); per Lee, they probably would've been one really, really big book except that a) bookbinding would not allow it and b) she kind of got distracted by other projects between the two halves. Gorgeous, gorgeous stuff.

Greetings and salutations!

Finished Swords from the West and started K.J. Parker's The Folding Knife.

Yes, those are both great suggestions.

I also like her The Birthgrave and The Storm Lord trilogies; and her Tales from the Flat Earth (beginning with Night's Master) is somewhere in my top 3-5 series.

I love Tanith Lee! And a lot of her back catalog has come back into print over the past few years.

Started Swords from the West by Harold Lamb.

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I really liked The Dragon of Jin-Sayeng, and ended up buying about five other books she's written that share the same setting.

Finished The Dreaming Tree, burned through The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (it was a novella, so only about an hour or so to finish) and started Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri.

Yeah, the Flat Earth books are one of my very favorite series, and I just reread them a couple years back.

Thanks! She's one of my favorite authors -- in this group I'd particularly recommend the Morgaine books (The Complete Morgaine, unsurprisingly, has all four of them), which are sort of sword & planet. Or The Paladin, which is probably as close as she's ever come to just straight sword & sorcery.

Of her SF, favorites include Downbelow Station, Alliance Space: Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna (Company Wars #2) and The Pride of Chanur.

Michael Fierce (Gandalf the Red) wrote: "A great duology. I don't know if it was this way for you the first time around but because of the pronunciation of the names and the pace it required a little patience for me but fully rewarding overall."

She really nails the atmosphere.

I'm now about half way through The Dreamstone (the first book in the collection) and I'm honestly starting to wonder whether I ever read it all the way through, or if I kept bouncing off of the first couple of chapters.

Started The Dreaming Tree an omnibus of a couple of early 80s fantasy novels by C.J. Cherryh that I haven't read in ... decades.

Is this your first time? (With Starship Troopers, that is.)