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This is the first in a pair of anthologies collecting recent sword & sorcery stories. It contains a dozen stories, all of them with an emphasis on battle and combat.
"The Horde" by G. Jerome Henson
The anthology begins with a story about a tribe rising up against the empire that colonized them. The story suffers a bit from being mostly told in flashback form, which is something I tend to think works better in novels than short stories. Not bad, but a bit disjointed.
"Paper Demons" by Jay Requard
Thi ...more
"The Horde" by G. Jerome Henson
The anthology begins with a story about a tribe rising up against the empire that colonized them. The story suffers a bit from being mostly told in flashback form, which is something I tend to think works better in novels than short stories. Not bad, but a bit disjointed.
"Paper Demons" by Jay Requard
Thi ...more
Dec 02, 2014
S.E. Lindberg
marked it as to-read
Dec 02, 2014
Derek
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Mar 11, 2017
Michael Fierce
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Oct 19, 2019
Richard
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