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Swords Against Darkness IΙΙ (Swords Against Darkness, #3)

Andrew J. Offutt

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May 26, 2020 Derek rated it liked it

Shelves: sword-and-sorcery, appendix-n, anthology-or-collection

It felt like this installment had more than the usual share of new authors, usually drawn from small-press magazines and the like. Some, like David C Smith, went on to a writing career, but many have only his or her piece here or little else professionally.

In particular, David Madison's "Tower of Darkness". With more conventional characters, this would have been finely crafted but unremarkable. But Madison peoples it with Diana and Marcus, whose gender roles, if not reversed, are bent quite a bi ...more

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Jul 18, 2008 Charles rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy

Again, not quite as strong as the first volume in the series, but still a very good work. I was just starting to write when this series came out and I wanted desperately to crack this market but ended up never completing a story that I thought suitable until the last volume had published.

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