Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" discussion

The Thief Who Spat In Luck's Good Eye

The Last Human by Lee Bacon

Glory Road

Haggopian and Other Stories by Brian Lumley.

The Thief Who Knocked on Sorrow's Gate

I just finished these first three books, and boy, after that ending I'm reeling. Excited to start book four.

The Sentinel

Warrior Witch of Hel
A dark, brutal sword & sorcery world, where fighting an evil lich king requires a gladiatrix making a pact with the death goddess.

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Pretty awesome trilogy. Enjoyed all three. I read somewhere the author plans to write more set in the same world.

Richard wrote: "I read somewhere the author plans to write more set in the same world."

Hope so!

A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

The Joy of Erudition wrote: "
Warrior Witch of Hel
A dark, brutal sword & sorcery world, where fighting an evil lich king requires a gladiatrix making a pact with the deat..."

C Dean Andersson (Asa Drake) has been teasing us fans with more Bloodsong for many years. Had an in-depth interview with him about his writing when his Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 eBook came out: http://www.selindberg.com/2014/03/c-d...

I'll check out the interview. I specifically chose to read the Asa Drake version because there seemed to be significant differences between it and the ebook version under his real name, but I'll probably read the revised version too, later.

The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 1, 2009-2011

Getting sucked into the options for the next groupread.
The Sleeping City caught my attention...so I had to read it. Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

May switch my vote to another! lol.... I am already reading Clifford Ball's Duar the Accursed....

Ghost in the Council by Jonathan Moeller

Company of Strangers by Melissa McShane

Finished Warrior Witch of Hel today, and it was excellent! Next book:

StoryHack Action & Adventure, Issue Five

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Murder In Absentia

A Tide of Shadows by Tom Bielawski

Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth by John C. Wright

I finished Adept's Gambit, and thought it was definitely one of the best Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories I've read so far (in publication order), even though it was set on a pseudo-historical Earth instead of Nehwon.

Finished The Last Hieroglyph and started L. Sprague de Camp's Lost Continents, which is non-fiction but it's mostly about Atlantis, where an awful lot of S&S fiction has taken place.

The Monsters Know What They're Doing: Combat Tactics for Dungeon Masters by Keith Ammann

Mage Maze Demon

The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 2, 2011-2013: Best of HFQ Volume 2

A Middle-earth Traveller: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor by John Howe

Stone of Inheritance by Melissa McShane

Ok, the last groupread poll got me side tracked. In any event, I had to go read The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories because someone had it as an option.

Pretty interesting. There are only 3 tales of S&S in this set of 6.... but I swear they probably influenced Wagner and Leiber. Was curious if anyone knew about how Clifford Ball (who wrote for Weird Tales ~1937 after REH passed).

Fans of Fafrhd and the Gray Mouser? Would love to hear your thoughts on Rald and Thwaine.

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Elric of Melniboné

Checking off another classic on my never read list.

W E wrote: "Elric of Melniboné

Checking off another classic on my never read list."

A great book I just read for the first time in 2018, too! If you wonder about certain loose ends, be assured they're wrapped up in book 3.

The Joy of Erudition wrote: "W E wrote: "Elric of Melniboné

Checking off another classic on my never read list."

A great book I just read for the first time in 2018, too! If you wonder about certain loose ends, ..."

Good to know. I got pretty deep into it last night and think I am going to enjoy it.

Renegade Swords

Mortal Rites by Melissa McShane

False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine by Theodore Dalrymple

Reading Blood of Vengeance enjoying this old style sword and sorcery.

THE CHRONICLES OF CAYLEN-TOR By Byron A. Roberts

The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 3

Finna by Nino Cipri

It's sci-fi, but it's kinda fun and very different.

Death's Sting--Where Art Thou?: A Heroic Anthology of Immortal Protagonists

Richard wrote: "
Death's Sting--Where Art Thou?: A Heroic Anthology of Immortal Protagonists"

I wait with bated - or is that baited? - breath.

I believe bated is correct. But Uncle Google and Wikipedia say both ways are correct.

I've recently seen a lot of folks praising Tim Powers lately so I found this audio book from the library. Slow to grab my attention but it's shaping up nicely.

On Stranger Tides

Shifting Loyalties by Melissa McShane

Bated.

Baited breath is what the mythical panther has.

The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly V 2

Sands of Memory by Melissa McShane

Renegade Swords. My first DMR book, and based upon the quality so far, not my last.

A Gathering of Ravens by Scott Oden

Norse mythology versus Christianity. Terrific so far.

I just started Scott Oden's "Twilight of the Gods" for the Group Read. So far the first chapter was somewhat reminiscent of the beginning to the Robert E Howard Conan story "Frost Giant's Daughter". It also reminds me of the beginning to "The Talisman" by Sir Walter Scott in that it starts with a duel in a sense. The openings of both of these stories are two of my favorite openings to any swashbuckling story.