S.E.’s Comments (group member since Nov 01, 2012)

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

Read the next installment of Savage Sword Of Conan (2019-) #2.

It started off nice, then became contrived and inconsistent.

The Scott Oden installment was an okay follow-up to an awesome beginning from Savage Sword Of Conan (2019-) #1.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Matt wrote: "Hey, Seth. Thanks for the plug. Which other thread would be a good one to promote our podcast? I feel like it's quite appropriate for this audience, and want to make people aware. And with the same..."

Matt, glad you chimed in. This thread is already in the preferred folder, so you can just extend this thread every-time you have an episode.

Feel welcome to post additional connections to other threads that overlap/echo the same topic. For example, we have groupreads every two months (usually two topics); this time we have "Eric Brighteyes" and "Conan and the Emerald Lotus" (with connections to the Black Starlight novelette in the Marvel comics). So if you happened to be talking about those too I would first post a notice here, then feel welcome to post a blurb in the other thread.

Just devoured Howard Andrew Jones's For the Killing of Kings.

It is highly recommended for epic fantasy fans. Twice in the first half, I was completely floored by plot twists. The last third kept me from going to sleep. Haven’t had that much fun reading a book in a long time. This jumpstarts The Ring-Sworn Trilogy, a wild & fresh & furious epic...one could argue it is more of a “King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table” mashup. Instead of a singular Holy Grail, the Altenerai guard are spread out searching for many hearthstones of mysterious, spiritual, power—in this case, stones are not clearly holy.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

John wrote: "The new edition of Emerald Lotus is supposed to show up this Spring, maybe as early as April. And its time-lost follow-up novel, Conan and The Living Plague, should land at the same time...."

JCK, Perhaps we stumbled upon making this groupread a month or two early to time it with the release of Living Plague and the reprint of Emerald Lotus.

No worries. We can extend this group read...and/or have Living Plague as a topic for May-Jun topics.

Glad to know they are coming soon!

Joseph/all, what are your thoughts on Quatermain?

I though I was "in the know" about pre-Tolkien classics (having read The Worm Ouroboros, The Broken Sword, andThe King of Elfland's Daughter).... but Eric Brighteyes predates them all!

Just received a used paperback in the mail. Was surprised it is illustrated. The description sounds great. This will be another group read that enables me to catch up on the books I should have read.



Any others about to try Haggard for the first time?

The website has isbn numbers and list 16Usd for both books (each). Wasn’t clear how to (pre)order from my phone.

I’m 2/3rds thru. Totally agree. Its solid.

Holy cow, it’s John C Hocking! Sweet. Thanks for joining in.

Any teasers for the Living Plague that you can reveal?

Are there threads from Emerald Lotus, thru Black Starlight, into Living Plague?

Clint wrote: "Is the new edition out yet? I would love to read this for the discussion, but I’m waiting for the new edition so I don’t have to pay collectors price"

Eh gad, many of those paperback's run 30USD.

I've been reading the Comics, i.e., John C Hocking's Black Starlight story that features emerald lotus.

I hoped we we could bring both readers of the 1995 book and the comics together.

I didn't know about any new edition. What do you know about that?

Banner and credits


- 1978 unknown/uncredited artist for the H. Rider Haggard book "Eric Brighteyes"
- 1999 Ken Kelly, Cover for "Conan and the Emerald Lotus" by John C Hocking


Link to Discussion Folders
(1)Haggard's Eric Brighteyes

(2) Conan and the Emerald Lotus - by John C Hocking



Conan and the Emerald Lotus by John C. Hocking the 1995 pastiche which has a 2019 sequel (of sorts) with a serialized novelette in Marvel's Conan The Barbarian (2019-) #1 (penned by John C Hocking, included as a parallel story with the comic). That series started release this year in January and continues!


Sword and Sorcery in 1891!; Indeed, Eric Brighteyes was written then by H. Rider Haggard, also known for:
She: A History of Adventure and Ayesha: The Return of She
King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain

BTW, DMR books recent blog post on Haggard

interior illustrations by Lancelot Speed, 1891; that link shows many, and here are two:
"Eric and Skallagrim boarding the Raven" // "All Night Long Gudura Sat in the Bride's Seat"

Sword and Sorcery in 1891!
Indeed, Eric Brighteyes was written then by H. Rider Haggard, also known for:
She: A History of Adventure and Ayesha: The Return of She
King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain

BTW, DMR books recent blog post on Haggard

interior illustrations by Lancelot Speed, 1891; that link shows many, and here are two:

Eric and Skallagrim boarding the Raven


All Night Long Gudura Sat in the Bride's Seat

Conan and the Emerald Lotus by John C. Hocking the 1995 pastiche which has a 2019 sequel (of sorts) with a serialized novelette in Marvel's Conan The Barbarian (2019-) #1 (penned by John C Hocking, included as a parallel story with the comic). That series started release this year in January and continues!

Continuing the Marvel reboots... this time wrapped up Savage Sword Of Conan (2019-) #1. I enjoyed Scott Oden's serialized pastiche more than the disjointed comic.

Just finished Conan The Barbarian (2019-) #3 and will be getting the remaining three at least.

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

In that review I try to understand the rapid fire blitz of Marvel, releasing ~6 near simultaneous comics/novelettes.

The first set is in Conan the Barbarian; the comic part has showcased three times and geographies and a fourth milieu is in John C. Hocking's Black Starlight story.

With The Savage Sword of Conan coming (with a novellete by Scott Oden) this month.... and next month giving us The Age of Conan (and I assume another novelette)... that means we'll be treated to ~6 parallel yarns all at once.

Readers will be confused, I suspect. I hope there is some coherence to this approach.

Any fans of James A Moore?

Ive been eyeing his Seven Forges and Last Sacrifice series. I don’t have time to read both.... any input about which one may be best to try? Are they connected?

Jack, cool. I know Skelos had some publishing issues. Hope #3 is good and that it continues.

I finally wrapped up TWILIGHT ECHOES # 1.

It is a nice pamphlet of four unique S&S tales. Worth tracking down I think.

It has one of REH's most racially charged stories "The Vale of Lost Women" ... which has some great story and description wrapped in an intolerable amount of racism.

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Got sucked into the new Marvel Conan comic. Read #2

In short, it was good, but it was all filler... an unexpected deviation from a series pitched as being a 6 episode stand alone paperback (available July 2019).

Getting a feeling that ADHD is needed to present Conan media (cripes, remember that movie from 2011? Eh gad)

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Anyhow, I bought #3 anyway.
Conan The Barbarian (2019-) #2

I got a copy (Drakon). Thx! Cool cover

So I put Conan The Barbarian (2019-) #1 in the poll for the groupread; it's the Marvel comic reboot of Conan. Coming in 6 parts for phase 1; comes with a novellete of sorts by John C. Hocking.

Then for kicks I had to check it out, bought, and enjoyed it... review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just downloaded the 2nd one: Conan The Barbarian (2019-) #2
We'll see how it develops.

I'm supposed to be reading Anthologies.... focus!