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For me this is easily a five star book.
Homerun.
Reading this in 2020 it's very hard to imagine some of these fantastic authors were just getting started back when this book was published in 1979. The table of contents reads like a who's who of tried and true DAW published authors from the 70s and 80s.
Everything is original to this anthology, and honestly, there are only a few stories I have encountered elsewhere. Norton's Witch World, Cole's Voidal, Lee's Cyrion, Saunder's Imaro, Schweitzer's S ...more
Homerun.
Reading this in 2020 it's very hard to imagine some of these fantastic authors were just getting started back when this book was published in 1979. The table of contents reads like a who's who of tried and true DAW published authors from the 70s and 80s.
Everything is original to this anthology, and honestly, there are only a few stories I have encountered elsewhere. Norton's Witch World, Cole's Voidal, Lee's Cyrion, Saunder's Imaro, Schweitzer's S ...more
This is an excellent collection, and one that made me keep asking "Who the hell is that?" followed by "Where the hell can I find more of that?" My to-read list now includes Adrian Cole's Voidal tales and E. C. Tubb's stories of Malkar, as well as A. E. Silas, F. Paul Wilson, and Don Walsh. The others--Charles Saunders, Tanith Lee's Cyrion stories, and so forth--were there already. (The Cyrion collection in particular, which I dug out of storage and dropped on the top of the pile.) Even the contr
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Well, they just don’t make them like this anymore. What a fantastic collection of heroic fantasy/sword and sorcery stories by a great group of authors. You know it’s good when Sci Fi master E.C. Tubb penned an excellent sword and sorcery piece. If you don’t have this, or haven’t read it, I certainly recommend finding it. Great anthology with no duds at all.
One of my favorite heroic fantasy anthologies. Contains great stories by Adrian Cole, Charles R. Saunders, E. C. Tubb, Gerald Page and F. Paul Wilson, among others. Highly recommended.
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