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

@Clint

Renegade Swords II has a fantastic line up! I didn't know it was out yet. I'll have to get a copy.

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@Richard, I scored an advanced digital copy. It should be out early March. I don’t buy too many physical copies of books, but I want a copy of that beauty.

I'm getting increasingly far from S&S at the moment -- just started Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space.

Richard wrote: "@Clint

Renegade Swords II has a fantastic line up! I didn't know it was out yet. I'll have to get a copy."

Not S&S, but for a great, imaginative Fantasy, I recommend Piranesi.

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

Runemaster: Shield Maiden's Blade

Pirate of the Prophecy by Jack Campbell

Currently reading 3 books, The Eye of the World & Eragon which are both rereads. Eragon is for a challenge, The Eye of the World because I want to move on to The Great Hunt, I never seem to pick it up and I need a refresher. This is my 3rd reading of TEOTW. And a first time read of Reunion in Death.

Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford

Renegade Swords II

Ghost in the Vision by Jonathan Moeller

Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons by Peter Bebergal

Letters from Russia by Astolphe de Custine

Still SF: I finished Revelation Space and started Redemption Ark, both by Alastair Reynolds

I finished Legacy of the Brightwash (5 stars) and am now reading Dragons of Spring Dawning

Book The Bucket/F*ck it List: 3,669 Things to Do. Or Not. Whatever.

E-Book The Last Minder: The Chronicles of Majjen

Audio The Rat Collector

I've had Out of the Abyss sitting on my nightstand for over a year now. It's been my bedtime reading bit by bit now and then. And then I started in on the Drizzt books. So, 2020 was a very Underdark year for me. I enjoyed the Drizzt books that I picked up at random, so I've decided to begin at the beginning. I'm currently reading Salvatore's Homeland.

Tales From the Fermi Resolution: Vol. 1: Shadow of the Tower by Moe Lane

Time for some Old World Warhammer RPG Lit. Time of Legends: Age of Legend, edited by Christian Dunn with stories by C.L. Werner, Gav Thorpe and a host of others.

The Sky on Fire: The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918 by Raymond H. Fredette

Reading

Listening to

Starship's Mage by Glynn Stewart

On to Absolution Gap, the third Revelation Space book.

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Just finished the last page of Beyond Barlow

It's a good book. Well wrought.

Beyond Barlow

Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! #6: A Sword & Sorcery Anthology Edited by Robert M. Price

A Bride's Story, Vol. 10 by Kaoru Mori

They Kill For Gold (Hireling to Hero Book 1) by Jack Badelaire.

@Richard I’m curious about the truncated state FS6 was left in after the whole Introduction controversy. I hope to read your thoughts when finished.

Loners: A Humorous Dwarven Action Novel by D.B. Bray

Just finished up Lion Knight saga: The Knights of the Brotherhood
Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Return of Akivasha: The lost Hyborian Tales, by Tim Allen
A Conan The Barbarian novel Translated from Spanish.

Worlds Beyond Worlds by John R Fultz. I’m only two stories deep, but recommended so far.

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Tears of the Ancient and Other Stories



It's a collection of short stories by that dapper Jason Koivu fella. The reviews were enticing. And first story has got me hooked.

Best of all it's in my budget, just 99 dwarven coppers... YARRrrr!!

Sidenote: Does anyone know how to get the book cover to appear on your comments? I tried the link at the top and the isbn#...

C.A. wrote: "Sidenote: Does anyone know how to get the book cover to appear on your comments? I tried the link at the top and the isbn#..."

When typing in one of these here comment boxes, you have the option to click "add book/author" (upper right hand corner, just outside of the comment box). Click that, type in your book title or author name, and underneath you have the option to present the info as "link" or "cover", like so...

@ C.A.
The only way I know to put the cover in the comments is from the desktop.

I have yet to find a way with my phone or tablet. I actually use GR in the browser instead of the app. The app censors out bits a pieces of comments making the whole thing unintelligible. Anyone else have this issue?

@Jason

Are you using a computer, phone or tablet?

Richard wrote: "@ C.A.
The only way I know to put the cover in the comments is from the desktop."

OK. I got it. And i won't soon forget. Thanks everyone!

Richard wrote: "@Jason

Are you using a computer, phone or tablet?"

Oh good point! I'm using a laptop.

I thought as much. It’s not an option on my phone. Wonder why?

Richard wrote: "I thought as much. It’s not an option on my phone. Wonder why?"

Less room for it and it's not essential, would be my guess.

I received an early copy of Worlds Beyond Worlds, John R Fultz from DMR books. I’m five stories deep into the eleven offered. The first four were pretty good, but last night I read his “The Gnomes of Carrick County”. I was expecting a Dunsany like tale, but instead received a Sword and Sorcery yarn about Pioneers in the New World. I found Fultz voice with this story and based upon it alone, I want to read his The Testament of Tall Eagle.

Dangerous Women

Hand of Mars by Glynn Stewart

Hondo's Honor

Paganism in the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen

No Country for Old Men


"My kind of writing. Short sentences. Direct storytelling. Interesting dialogue. And he uses an interesting format for his dialogue, no quotations so far.

The Sheriff gets a big paragraph in italics to get you well in his viewpoint. Moss, you just naturally root for. I seen the movie. Loved it. But that's what a good story can do. Make you love it."