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

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

Welcome Peter and Dean!

Sweet, you got the Centipede edition!

Sweet. Good job. Stay addicted.

Congrats!

Sounds good. I signed up.

Centipede Press gave Karl Wagner's Kane some nice hardcovers a while back... now they are offering a Fritz Leiber illustrated, cloth set:

http://centipedepress.com/horror/fgm1...

Jon wrote: "Finally read Robert E Howard's "The Tower of the Elephant" today. Was quite surprised and not what I expected story wise. It was a lovely piece."

I recall my surprise many years ago; I didn't know as a "youngster" that REH had a "weird/mythos" side until reading Tower of the Elephant...and loved it. Then learned he was a pen pal of Lovecraft etc..

S.wagenaar wrote: "Hey Seth, maybe post a link over on Facebook. Lots of S&S fans out there, might rope a few more into the fold..."

Thanks Stan. I did have a few Facebook links posts already. Added another. Feel welcome to spread the good word on the group's behalf in other groups. I usually just copy/paste the URL to a key section.... or I make a blog post and share that link.

Joseph wrote: "S.E. wrote: "Joseph, can you elaborate on "novelizations"?
Examples? Thanks!" Novelizations of movies (of a sword & sorcery bent, ideally) -- for example, Krull or [book:Clash of t..."

I love that idea. Was actually thinking of something similar as I pondered getting the Solomon Kane and Conan-2011 movie (Stackpole) adaptations.

I'll add "Novelizations & Adaptations" into the Nov-Dec list.

Joseph, can you elaborate on "novelizations"?
Examples?

Thanks!

Season 2 confirmed

Charles wrote: "I vote for "off the planet!"" I knew YOU would! lol

New Poll up: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Cool

Just wrapped up Weirdbook #35, which was great. Next up is either/both (a) Scott Oden's A Gathering of Ravens and/or (b) another Obscure book for the groupread .. ie Chris Carlsen's Berserker series

Weirdbook is highly recommended for the "weirder" folks here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Weirdbook Oct 2017 is soliciting for short stories:

http://weirdbook-magazine.com/submiss...

TC, thx for the adds. I include Goodread quicklinks to those:

The Doomfarers of Coramonde and...
The Starfollowers of Coramonde by Brian Daley

Castlevania, the 'Sword & Sorcery"-esque video game franchise from Konami that features lots of vampires just had a 4-episode Season 1 that was successful.... so it gets a season 2:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/07/0...

Any watchers?

Joseph wrote: "Having finished Swords Against Darkness, I recommend it unreservedly to anyone who's looking for a first-rate anthology. I finished D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths and..."

Joseph, Swords Against Darkness looks great, as your review provides the table of contents. We'll have to push that during our yearly Jan-Feb Anthology groupread.

I've read theThe Dragonbone Chair a long time ago; I recall it going slow but I was engaged anyway....until the second book. Then it was too easy to drift away.

Anyway, I've a few "weird" anthologies I am reading....mainly Weirdbook #35 with Skelos 2: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy in queue. WB#35 is living up to its legacy so far.

Jon wrote: "This is awesome, I'm now actively looking for anthologies to submit to, is there is list somewhere of fantasy anthologies that take submissions?"

We have a networking Tab/Group-of-folder for this, which has posts every now and them. It is not perfect, but there are opportunities in there...