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Richard | 816 comments A Gathering of Ravens by Scott Oden. I'm really digging it!


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
More Hugo reading: Finished Down Among the Sticks and Bones and now it's finally time to go back to N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy with The Obelisk Gate.


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Jason Waltz (worddancer) | 385 comments I look forward to hearing what you think, Jack! I enjoyed the book.


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
Time for Niall of the Far Travels Collected by Gardner F. Fox -- I know I read at least a few of the stories back when they were originally appearing in Dragon Magazine.


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Richard | 816 comments I picked up A Mirror Against All Mishap by one of our own, Jack Massa.


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Al Burke (alburke47) | 220 comments Richard wrote: "I picked up A Mirror Against All Mishap by one of our own, Jack Massa."

Just picked up the first in that series. Looks like fun.


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Richard | 816 comments Al wrote: "Richard wrote: "I picked up A Mirror Against All Mishap by one of our own, Jack Massa."

Just picked up the first in that series. Looks like fun."


Hope you enjoy it


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Al Burke (alburke47) | 220 comments Just finished Beyond Redemption by Michael R. Fletcher

It was terrific.


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Richard | 816 comments Just finished A Mirror Against All Mishap. A great sequel!

Thinking about starting Art of War: Anthology for Charity or Pass on the Cup of Dreams.


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Al Burke (alburke47) | 220 comments Richard wrote: "Just finished A Mirror Against All Mishap. A great sequel!

Thinking about starting Art of War: Anthology for Charity or Pass on the Cup of Dreams."


Art of War is great. Really enjoyed it.


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S.wagenaar | 418 comments https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/171899...#

Not currently reading, but certainly must read soon...


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
S.wagenaar wrote: "https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/171899...#

Not currently reading, but certainly must read soon..."


That does look tempting ...

Because it's this month's Sword & Laser pick, I just started Night's Master by Tanith Lee, which will inevitably lead to a reread of all five Flat Earth books.


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W E Wertenberger | 23 comments Really liked the first book in the series, nice mix of grounded realism with an epic scope. The Crown of the Conqueror


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
W E wrote: "Really liked the first book in the series, nice mix of grounded realism with an epic scope. The Crown of the Conqueror"

That's another one of those that's been sitting on my shelf (and on my Kindle) for, um, rather a long time. Glad to hear good things about it.


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Peter (jimmyshelter) | 82 comments Currently reading The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 1, 2009-2011, a few stories in, good stuff so far!

Really classic S&S.


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W E Wertenberger | 23 comments Joseph wrote: "W E wrote: "Really liked the first book in the series, nice mix of grounded realism with an epic scope. The Crown of the Conqueror"

That's another one of those that's been sitting ..."


They do tend to back up, don't they?


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
W E wrote: "They do tend to back up, don't they? "

I pretty much abandoned any pretense of ever being caught up many years ago.


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Al Burke (alburke47) | 220 comments Now reading The Well of Mimir, by Matt Larkin. Nothing like a bit of Saga to start the day...


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Μάριος Μητσόπουλος | 16 comments Currently reading The Jewel Of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker.


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Richard | 816 comments Sullivan's books are a pleasure to read.


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Martin Owton | 35 comments Al wrote: "I Was a Teenage Weredeer by C.T. Phipps"
Me too.


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Al Burke (alburke47) | 220 comments Martin wrote: "Al wrote: "I Was a Teenage Weredeer by C.T. Phipps"
Me too."


I'm about 30 pages in. Pretty good so far. I like Charles' stuff.


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Richard | 816 comments On kindle I'm reading Pass on the Cup of Dreams, which is the sequel to The Mace of Souls.


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Al Burke (alburke47) | 220 comments Just finished The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French.

Great stuff.


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S.wagenaar | 418 comments Just finished the third Falcon book by Mark Ramsay. I think I’ll try something different with The Keep by F Paul Wilson.


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
Richard wrote: "On kindle I'm reading Pass on the Cup of Dreams, which is the sequel to The Mace of Souls."

Mace of Souls is one of those books that's been sitting on my shelf for oh, 25 years and I don't think I ever read it. Was happy to learn recently (from Black Gate) that he's written further novels set in that world, and someday I'll get around to them.

For myself, I just started Night's Sorceries, the fifth & last of Tanith Lee's Flat Earth books.


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Howard (joneshoward) | 68 comments S.wagenaar wrote: "Just finished the third Falcon book by Mark Ramsay. I think I’ll try something different with The Keep by F Paul Wilson."

I've had those Falcon books on my shelf for a while and keep thinking I should really get to them, given how much I liked his Conan books. How are they?


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Richard | 816 comments Joseph wrote: "Richard wrote: "On kindle I'm reading Pass on the Cup of Dreams, which is the sequel to The Mace of Souls."

Mace of Souls is one of those books that's been sitting o..."


The jargon is can be difficult until you get a handle on it, but the story is great. My favorite so far by Bruce Fergusson is Shadow of His Wings


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S.wagenaar | 418 comments Howard wrote: "S.wagenaar wrote: "Just finished the third Falcon book by Mark Ramsay. I think I’ll try something different with The Keep by F Paul Wilson."

I've had those Falcon books on my shelf for a while and..."


Hey Howard, the books are really good. Roberts, as you probably already know, is an accomplished swordsman and a historical expert on all things steel, sharp and bloody! That hands-on expertise shows in his writing, in my opinion. These particular books were written quickly for the men's adventure market, so there is a little bit of saucy sex mixed in with the many action sequences. But I like them because they were written in a time when lean, fast adventure books could still be written in under 200 pages, without excess padding to meet a page count. I have one more to read in the series, and I'm saving for later in the Fall; I wish Roberts was still writing stuff like this!


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Jason Waltz (worddancer) | 385 comments Mary, I notice you've been reading several Moeller titles. I enjoy his short stories, how do his novels/series hold up?


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Mary Catelli | 968 comments This series holds up very well.


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
I had a few days on airplanes for a work trip, so I finished Night's Sorceries, read both of Joseph Brassey's Drifting Lands books (Skyfarer and Dragon Road, both of which were a lot of fun) and started some actual old-school sword & sorcery, the new DMR collection of Clifford Ball's fiction, The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories. (Which, to be clear, only has three actual sword & sorcery stories, and I'd read at least one, if not two, in some of Lin Carter's anthologies; but it's nice to have everything collected and available on my Kindle.)


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Aaron Meyer (loptsson) | 75 comments Not currently reading it but has anybody seen that there is a new J.R.R. Tolkien book coming out in August of 2018? The Fall of Gondolin. I just noticed it for pre-order on Amazon.


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Mary Catelli | 968 comments Yup. I've seen it. Got it listed on my 'future-publish-date' shelf.


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