Thieves' World (Thieves' World, #1) in Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"

Sep 15, 2011 Derek rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: sword-and-sorcery, anthology-or-collection, shared-world

Interesting factoid: the first six Thieves' World collections should appear in the Kindle store in February 2020, thanks to the efforts of Open Road Media. The task of securing rights was probably significant.

I'd be curious if this experiment--a shared setting and usable set of characters--has ever been repeated. The logical conclusion would be open-source or copylefted material, and the only thing I know of is the Jenny Everywhere project. Sadly the most common example these days is tie-in nove ...more

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May 11, 2020 Jason Waltz rated it liked it

Shelves: fantastical, series, shared-world, s-s

restarted and read within about a week to be honest. first time in THIEVES' WORLD. Probably would have totally enjoyed this as a youth, reading similar or at least not too dissimilar things during the same time. Nowadays, seems, well, a tad juvenile. Except for Haldeman's tale (might be my first of his, while the name is known I cannot recall anything I've read of his); he seems to have a thing or two about females. Anywhoo, I realize getting all the information shared amongst all the authors co ...more

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Jun 07, 2009 Charles rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy

This was the first "Shared World" series, at least as far as I know, and it is still the best in my opinion. I thought the idea was great, to get a lot of good writers telling stories in the same basic universe, the same city even, and be able to use other people's characters and settings. It worked for me.
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Nov 15, 2022 Jim Kuenzli rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

Nice anthology collection for the first book written in 1979. If the stories seem a bit rushed, it’s because some were due to a deadline by Ace. I was expecting a much different setting due to wealth of possibilities, but am pleasantly surprised. This was an enjoyable read and I am looking forward to the next book. I enjoyed each author’s take on the town of Sanctuary as well as the characters with some crossover.

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Oct 12, 2009 Greg (adds 2 TBR list daily) Hersom rated it it was amazing

So I've been wanting to re-read this series for a long time. I saw that it's finally available on Audible.
I liked it even better the second time around.

I really wish we could get some of today's top sword & sorcery, grimdark, and dark fantasy authors to do another shared-world anthology series. ...more

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Nov 11, 2010 [Name Redacted] rated it really liked it

Shelves: dark-fantasy, action, fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, short-fiction

Read previously in '93 or '94. Time for a re-read!

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Much better than I had remembered! I wish authors would undertake a similar effort today. ...more

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