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

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

The beautiful, haunting narration by Kathy Bell Denton of Helen's Daimones audible book - LINK
has just been released (April 2018). Seriously, check out Kathy Bell Denton's awesome voice in the sample (click play). Into Grim Fairy Tales so dark that your hero is a demonic skeleton? You may need a dose of Dyscrasia Fiction.

Private message me, S E Lindberg, for a complimentary review copies of the book (any format: paperback, ebook, or audio).



Reviews:


Fletcher Vredenburgh from Black Gate reviews Helen's Daimones (link to 2017 review) .
"Helen is one of the stranger heroes to feature in swords & sorcery. Is she delusional, mad, gifted? I was never quite sure — she is only a little girl — but I was never able to take my eyes off her. With a cast as strange as this novel has, Helen remains the focus throughout. Even when she’s off stage, the question of what she is doing always seems to rise to the fore."

"Too much of what’s called grimdark is little more than sex and gore splashed over a standard epic fantasy story. True horror — and at its heart, Helen’s Daimones is a horror story — unsettles, disorients, and makes you feel like the world will fall out from under your feet at any moment. Lindberg’s novel does all those things."


Beauty in Ruins reviews Helen's Daimones LINK
The Dyscrasia novels by S.E. Lindberg are deep, intricate reads that harken back to the pulp days of Lovecraft, Howard, and others... Helen's Daimones is weird fantasy, weirdly told, for weird readers. As the strongest of the three stories to date, it makes for a great introduction to Lindberg's world, and creates more than enough interest for a fourth entry.

What this chapter did for me was breathe real life (no pun intended) into Lord Lysis. He becomes a sympathetic character here, especially in his encounter with a tragic young woman (buried alive so many years ago), the ghosts of her children (hung for their corruption), and their army of dolls (crazy, dangerous dolls). He's still a monster, a fearfully powerful being, but he's also a personality here. As for Doctor Grave, he was already a full-fledged character, but he becomes a little more chilling here as new layers of mystery leave us to question his deeper motives.--- Bob Milne 2017

Good job Richard! At least you found the book you wanted!

I hope for an audio book. Christopher Lee narrated the Children of Hurin and that rocked

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/0...

HarperCollins has announced that it will, for the very first time, publish The Fall of Gondolin on 30 August this year.


Edited by Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee

Joseph, you have any identified?

Richard wrote: "Jeff Jones? Raymond Swanland? Boris Vallajo?"

Ok, I'll add one for Swanland... I like the other two but feeling like we need more "new" opportunities

Richard, any artist you would suggest? I think once did “any Whelan” or “any Frazzeta”

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Finally trying out Lumley’s Necroscope (not S&S, but he did write weird adventure like the Hero of Dreams). Turns out Necroscope was one inspiration for the Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen game.

I just finished the The Literate Thief.

Walter Rhein has written heroic fantasy, but this book is actually dystopian adventure (lots of swords, and a grim future, but no sorcery). It will appeal to most dark fantasy readers and folks here I suspect.




Literate Thief

Got mine! Via Kickstarter. Print copy is amazing. Second volume in production.

Greg wrote: "S.E. wrote: "Greg wrote: "Thieves' World anthologies might work well for this!" Joe Bonadonna just wrote a meta-summary on Black Gate about the Sacred Band spin off f..."


Greg, Thank you! As much as I like GR, it's interface is terrible for adding minor rich text (like links). A simple/unnecessary space at the end of the html code gives no error...and leads to barf. Ugh. Appreciate the check! [I fixed it]

Actually, I am the opposite: I've tried some of the Morris work and liked it, but somehow missed the original anthologies.

Greg wrote: "Thieves' World anthologies might work well for this!"

Joe Bonadonna just wrote a meta-summary on Black Gate about the Sacred Band spin off from Thieves' World:
Link to Black Gate article (it has other links to his reviews of each book)

Janet E. Morris has spent the last decade making Author's Cuts of the Tempus and Sacred Band Novels, and just recently completed releasing them all.

Goodread's listing of series Link

Beyond Sanctuary
Beyond the Veil
Beyond Wizardwall
City At The Edge Of Time
Tempus Unbound Author's Cut
Storm Seed
The Sacred Band
The Fish the Fighters and the Song-Girl

Fletcher rocks. He just challenged us to read more HFQ!

And the Might Thor Blog has emerged quickly to be another go to resource.

Tempting. Thx for sharing. I backed several magazines via Kickstarter (Skelos, Tales from the Magician’s Skull, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly...). And I’m behind on reading them!

You still had 8 slots left to fill? Very disappointed;)

A series of shorts make "the Legend of Cambria" interesting.
Sword & Sorcery movie on Youtube and...
https://legendofcambria.cambriausa.co...

Peter, did you Kickstarter for the print copy too? I think it comes out soon.

Damn!

Oooh nice! I just dropped a ton on Hate! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...


Solomon Kane board games sounds great.