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

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The Last Druid (The Fall of Shannara, #4) by Terry Brooks.
Goodreads giveaway.


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Lyndon (lyndonperry) | 33 comments I just finished re-reading my book? ;) The Sword of Otrim, an epic fantasy (now live on Amazon!)


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
Something seasonal (and it's upcoming on an episode of the Appendix N Podcast): The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft.


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
And now onto The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford -- they finally resolved the rights tangle around his books and are bringing them back into print after far, far too long.


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Richard | 816 comments @ Joseph
I really enjoyed The Dragon Waiting !


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
Richard wrote: "@ Joseph
I really enjoyed The Dragon Waiting !"


It's totally not what I was expecting (mostly because I had no idea what it was about and my original 1980s-vintage paperback had a terrible generic mass-market fantasy cover), but I'm loving every page of it.


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Richard | 816 comments @Joseph

My edition was published by Avon with a cover by Sanjulian or someone pretty darn similar. I thought it added a nice quality to the paperback


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
To clarify, this is the cover on my original paperback copy:

The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford

I've seen pictures of the Sanjulian cover

The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford

and it does look much nicer. I have a number of other Sanjulian covers in my collection, including

The White Serpent (Novels of Vis, #3) by Tanith Lee

and

Children of the Lion by Peter Danielson


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
Now ('tis the season) I'm starting Night Shift for the first time in about 30 years. At some point, I should reread the Dark Tower books, which are about as close as King has ever come to S&S.


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Mark | 78 comments Just finished Oath: A Black Diamond Novel out in November. Worth reading


The Joy of Erudition | 138 comments Joseph wrote: "I should reread the Dark Tower books, which are about as close as King has ever come to S&S."

Or this cover art:
The Stand by Stephen King


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Thorgil Bloodaxe: The Vultures of Khurasan by Ralph E. Laitres


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Swords Of Gobi: Quests Of The Dethroned. By Fred Blosser.
Sword & Sorcery action and fantasy in the pulp tradition of Prince Raynor, Elak of Atlantis. A tribute to Henry Kuttner.


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Clint | 341 comments @David, I have enjoyed Blosser’s essays about REH, but have not tried his fiction


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Clint wrote: "@David, I have enjoyed Blosser’s essays about REH, but have not tried his fiction"
It is my first time and I am so impressed. The book has 3 stories and I have read the first 2, you can believe they were written by Henry Kuttner.


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Crimson Blades of the Corsair Kingdom (Celyn the Exile Book 2) by Lorenzo D. Lopez and Rogue Planet Press.


The Joy of Erudition | 138 comments Well, one of the books I'm reading now is as sword-&-sorcery as you can get: Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber.

Also the cool (but not S&S) horror of Carnacki, The Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson.


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M.R. Kelly (mrkellyauthor) | 1 comments not currently reading sword and sorcery, but at the moment I'm 21 books deep into the Horus Heresy, WH40K books.

Now that's a long series of books. 55 in total.


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Thorgil Bloodaxe, Shadow Of Death: by Ralph Laitres.


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Al Burke (alburke47) | 220 comments A very un-S&S I'm Thinking of Ending Things. I like it though.


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Richard | 816 comments Gilden-Fire
Gilden-Fire by Stephen R. Donaldson

Honestly, I bought it for the pretty cover...


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
That is nice! I've read the piece, but just the version included in his short story collection. I was into Donaldson & Covenant back when I was young; someday I should go back and read the new set he wrote a while back.


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Richard | 816 comments Honestly this is a hard read. Primarily because it is an excised section from the Ill Earth War. Meant to be read as supplemental material to the series, but like I said about the art. I'm a sucker for Stephen Fabian art.


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
Yeah, it definitely doesn't make sense without context.


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Joseph | 1319 comments Mod
Started King's Dragon because it was just time to sink into a great big epic fantasy series.


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Al Burke (alburke47) | 220 comments The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North and Fortune's Fool (Eterean Empire #1) by Angela Boord


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