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

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

Thanks Stan, Jason, Jack, and Charles....this is great. I'll shoot out a poll today.

We have Gonji and Egypt occurring now.
Jan-Feb is our annual Anthology time.

Need some suggestions for Nov-Dec., at least to put into a poll.

The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett
and
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany

Theme of Conan Pastiche (not clonans); ie Conan: Road of Kings or many others.

Or to stick with REH, we could do a Cormac Mac Art by REH or even pastiches from Offutt like When Death Birds Fly.

Or something new, like Skelos magazine?


Other ideas to poll?

That is super cool.

Loving Taylor's Kamose.

Finished 2nd chapter "emissaries of doom"; Keith Taylor may have published these separately but he clearly had a novel in mind; Kamose proves he is Egypt's most powerful sorcerer again as the Pharaoh needs defending from Kush. Very dark sorcery and very fast adventure.

Easy 5 star do far but only 20% done. Looking forward to how Ramses iii is treated.

I know Joseph is about to read this. Any others out there?

Skelos press "We will be open to submissions from September 15th to September 30th for fiction, poetry, and essays. After September 30th, we will close in order to be able to read and digest whatever comes in during that time. We will reopen for submissions again at a later date."

http://skelospress.com/2016/09/14/sub...

Phew, close call Joseph!

Zorn is on in 10min (8PM EST 9-11-2016) on FOX channel

Congrats Mary. Drunken mermaids? Thats sounds fun.

Richard wrote: "What about the Heart of Bronze duology by Matthew Stover? Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon are the titles respectively. Then there is the Dangerous Journey's trilogy by Gary Gygax. The Samarkand Solution..."

Agreed, RIchard. The Mask of the Sorcerer and its sequel Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer are awesome...and they seem to reinforce the idea that protagonists are magicians when the milieu is Egypt based.


The others you mention look interesting. I had not heard of all of them. I place the goodreads links here:

Iron Dawn Jericho Moon
The Samarkand SolutionThe Anubis MurdersDeath in Delhi

Reading Keith Taylor's Servant of the Jackal God. A collection of Weird Tales shirt stories from 1999 to 2006 plus two chapters new for this set. The protagonist Kamose is a sorcerer priest of Anubis. Great stuff so far.

It occurs to me that most Sword and Sorcery heroes are experts of the former. It is refreshing to have a Sorcerer engage in adventure.

Sounds interesting, but this post will be deleted soon. Please read and obey the guidelines policy re: spamming.

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

In short, promote much less than you participate other ways.

Just got Skelos in the mail.

The Tor.com Free eBook Club Pick for September is Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson!

http://ebookclub.tor.com/

On the first of each month, the Tor.com eBook Club gives away a free sci-fi/fantasy ebook to club subscribers. We're delighted to announce that the pick for September 2016 is Gardens of the Moon, by Steven Erikson! The first book in the complete 10-volume Malazan Book of the Fallen series, Gardens of the Moon takes a unique approach to epic fantasy fiction: readers jump from character to character, some of whom grow into legendary beings, and some of whom are gone in a flash, and in time, these hundreds of small experiences cohere into a massive and cinematically vivid world. This title will be available for download from September 1st to September 7th; for legal reasons the offer is only open to readers in the U.S. and Canada, but all are welcome to join the conversation on Tor.com throughout the month!

Sweet! I liked the Cormac pastiche

Andrea, welcome! Please add a post in our networking section (there are folders for editors illustrators etc; below is the book cover one ):
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

T.C. wrote: "Thanks, Seth! I posted it on the FB pages where your link appears but couldn't figure how to pop it on here. That map was drawn by Joe Rutt for the original Zebra editions of the trilogy books bac..."

I've published images in Kindles before...and it is very difficult to get them to show in "responsive" screens of varying resolution and dimensions. Nice to show off the map here!

Also, DARK VENTURES sounds incredible. Even if it comes out after the group read, we can use this forum to discuss (even after Oct); we may make a new folder too. Any way, I know several of us are interested in DV.

Here is map of Vedun provided by Ted!
It appears in the print copies but not the Kindle ones.

Gonji is indeed fun. I reviewed the first two:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ted Rypel is very accessible and has been working on Gonji still, with an impending new entry-point work called Dark Venture (novella I think).

2016 Sept Oct Group Read Topics:
(a) Gonji - Link to Discussion
(b) Egypt/Stygia - Link to Discussion

Masthead Banner Credits:



Gonji: The Soul Within the Steel by T.C. Rypel, artist = Dusan Kostic

Nagash the Sorcerer by Mike Lee, artist = Jon Sullivan

Map inspired by Robert E. Howard's own drawing, colored in Conan: The Ultimate Guide to the World's Most Savage Barbarian by Roy Thomas,

Any Sword & Sorcery that has inspirations from Egypt or fantasy versions of it (i.e. REH's Stygia) are fair game. Lot's of good possibilities here, as supporting discussion revealed (thanks to Stan, Joseph, and Jack for guiding that).



Servant of the Jackal God: The Tales of Kamose, Archpriest of Anubis

The Mask of the Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer, and the sequel Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer

The Scroll of Thoth: Simon Magus and the Great Old Ones: Twelve Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

Stygia: The Hour of the Dragon or Conan, Vol. 8: Black Colossus

As well as Warhammer's take on Egypt: Nagash the Sorcerer