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Some of the Imaro books are affordable and available, but some of the more recent one are not (via Amazon anyway). For the later books, Lulu is best; Lulu usually has codes to save ~15% on orders (just search Lulu codes in google).
The polling was tight, but we have our Mar-Apr Topics selected:
(a) Saunders Folder link
(b) Gemmell Folder link
(The third topic was very close: Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates or Forge of Darkness; those voters are encourages to read those too...perhaps try out the Buddy Read Section.
Banner credits for cover art of books by : Charles R. Saunders and David Gemmell; Cover Artists:
The Quest for Cush (no. 2) 2007 Vince Evans
Legends of the Drenai Ken Kelly 1990
Sword in the Storm (The Rigante Series, Book 1) 2001, Artist Doug Beekman
The King Beyond the Gate 1995, Louis Royo
Imaro 2006 Vince Evans
It's Sword & Soul time! This is for anything Charles R. Saunders wrote. Some of his books are difficult to track down, but they are worth it...and... he has been writing many short stories (those count too for Dossouyediscussion...so if you can't find the books, look into the anthologies he contributed for....list below).We had a related group read in 2013 Imaro Groupread (link to that discussion)
Finding Books
There is at least one eBook version of Imaro available via Lulu...and ~$20USD version of most of his library; there are two pages.
1) The spotlight page for Charles R Saunders has most (link)
2) The page for Charles Saunders (no "R") has Dossouye available (link)
Imaro
The Quest for Cush
The Trail of Bohu
The Naama War
Dossouye: the Dancers of Mulukau
Dossouye
Short stories: From his website we have a list of Charles R. Saunders's short stories and the collection they appeared in:
http://www.reindeermotel.com/CHARLES/...
Any David Gemmell is fair game! Newcomers will likely want to grab hold of Legend.Look on that TBR list of yours and grab hold of one!
Jack, your reading pile overflows!
Win tablet from Tor with a bunch of books...many with Sword & Sorcery roots:All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany
The Reluctant Swordsman by Dave Duncan
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
Spellsinger by Alan Dean Foster
The Bishop’s Heir by Katherine Kurtz
Ill Met in Lankhmar and Ship of Shadows: Two Novellas by Fritz Leiber
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley
The Sunset Warrior by Eric Van Lustbader
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
To enter to win the Fantasy eBook Collection, click here:
http://us.macmillan.com/static/tordot...
For more info click on:
http://www.tor.com/2017/02/14/enter-t...
Welcome aboard Wes!
Never heard of this. Any sorcery in it?
Howie wrote: "Richard wrote: "Would Ghor, Kin Slayer: The Saga Of Genseric's Fifth Born Son be considered an anthology?" I would say that it is not. An anthology is a collection of unrelated stori..."I agree that, formally, Ghor is not an anthology... but for the sake of this group read it is fine! Ghor is such an interesting work it may be worth its own dedicated groupread some time.
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Note the Search tool... in the right hand side of the screen on the group homepage (above the moderator pictures); that is an easy way to find books/authors/topics of interest to you.
Groupreads are staggered: 2 months periods...and two topics each. About half way thru, we'll poll to identify the topics for the next period. Final results are emailed ~1week prior, but the polling status can be seen on the group's homepage at anytime (bottom).
We never delete/archive discussions (Groupread topics or otherwise), so many previous discussions are still available ... and its perfectly fine to continue/resurrect those even if they are years old.
Richard wrote: "Such a clever way to get info for the group read S.E.! I cannot believe I didn't see it coming. Bravo, sir!"Thanks RIchard, Lol.
Thanks! We had enough to populate the poll! You can keep posting here and I'll lurk to get possible items for the group reads.March-April 2017 Topic Poll =
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
Just to help everyone's addiction, recall there is a Book Haul folder too!https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
It is therapeutic to share your book hoarding!
Just finished Mad Shadows II: Dorgo the Dowser and The Order of the Serpent, in which Joe Bonadonna exceeded expectations for a sequel. Great mashup of Crime-Mystery and Weird-Adventure.Review = https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
To help me populate polls for the group reads, I propose this thread. It is like an anti-matter version to "What Are You Currently Reading."The topic is this: What Sword & Sorcery books are on your your To-Be-Read list...but for some reason you never get to them? Perhaps a group read will get you there!
Howie wrote: "S.E. wrote: "Howie wrote: "Jack wrote: "Howie wrote: "I initially discovered sword and sorcery upon reading The Savage Sword of Conan magazines as a teenager in the early 1980s. These led me to see..."Howie, you are right! I posted a reply in the Anthology group section:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Howie wrote: "S.E. wrote: "Howie wrote: "Joseph wrote: "Howie wrote: "Jack wrote: "Starting to read Swordsmen in the Sky, which, based on the title, should be a good Sword & Planet collection. Sto..."Howie, it's like reining in cats here, lol.
You and are others reading Swordsmen in the Sky (Jack and Joseph...more?). You all can discuss it now. It would be cleaner to discuss it in the Anthology groupread thread (link below), but often times discussions spill over into other threads (ie this one being Currently Reading). Any discussion is good though.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Lots of great GONJI discussions too. Further/longer discussion on these may be better managed in the Groupread folder from last Fall: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Howie wrote: "You might want to check out Swords of Steel as well if you haven't seen it yet. It is a paperback anthology series following in the footsteps of Andrew Offutt's Swords Against Darkness. I have written tales for each volume so far....Howie, on another post you alerted that the G W Thomas anthology database links are broken! It is true, recently after the posting in Dec it seems he switched to a blog (https://garywthomas.blogspot.ca/)
I messaged him on facebook about the status of his prior site. Hopefully he can retrieve/migrate those pages.
Howie, it seems you are a musician too!
To help plug Swords of Steel, here are links:
From the DMR facebook page: "Swords of Steel" is a paperback anthology series of fantasy adventure and horror stories written by heavy metal musicians. Volumes I and II available now!"
Swords Of Steel
Swords of Steel II
Cindy wrote: "Hi everyone,I am a long time reader of obscure sci fi, fantasy, sword and sorcery. Obscure because they are mostly dusty old pulp paperbacks in op shops. Looking to modernise my reading a little i..."
What a great day to join! Howie recently joined and also had a call out to REH 's birthday.
Glad to have you here.
