In the mood for macho weird bizarre ridiculous fantasy/science fantasy/s&s, any suggestions?

[Garham]

I'm looking for recommendations for something fairly niche. Something in the vague ballpark of the old he man and the masters of the universe cartoon. Action. Cool weapons. Manly men. Maybe swords. Weirdness.
Some sorta "ancient" technology. Monsters.

Doesn't need to be "good" or deep or literary. Doesn't necessarily need to be pure trash either though. Old or new.

The closest reference points i can come up with would be like Balzan of the cat people, lin Carter's gondwane, john Carter of Mars, the horseclans series (at its better moments), farmers world of tiers series, Gor.

Any help?

[Anna]

Kings of the Wyld, there's a buddy read happening right now. It's definitely "ridiculous macho fantasy/S&S with monsters".

[Garham]

Ohhh that does sound pretty good

[Dj]

Garham wrote: "I'm looking for recommendations for something fairly niche. Something in the vague ballpark of the old he man and the masters of the universe cartoon. Action. Cool weapons. Manly men. Maybe swords...."

Micheal Moorcock and the Elric Series
Jack L. Chalker with the Dance of the River Gods series
Robert E. Howard and of course, Conan the Barbarian
Fritz Lieber with the Fafrid and Gray Mouser series
Roger Zelazny the Nine Prince of Amber Series.
JRR Tolkien the Silmarillion.
Brent Weeks the Night Angel series

Well, there are a few to go over and decided upon.

[Garham]

Thanks! Haven't looked into Brent weeks. The others I've mostly read.

Moorcock is one of my all time favorites. I think the runestaff is my favorite although of course Elric is his most clever antihero and most iconic creation.

[Dj]

Garham wrote: "Thanks! Haven't looked into Brent weeks. The others I've mostly read.

Moorcock is one of my all time favorites. I think the runestaff is my favorite although of course Elric is his most clever ant..."

I read Moorcock backwards, started with the Swords books first. Very ood doing it that way.

[Garham]

I definitely enjoyed reading moorcock best by date of publication, rather than as per series chronology

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Heroes Die may fit the bill? Still haven't read it, but that's the air I get from it.

The Cloud Roads may also work. It's got all the weird tech, lots of monsters, manly deeds and so on.

The Aeronaut's Windlass has some of that. Cool tech, great action. A little more "balanced" of a book though.

Hounded may fit your mood beautifully, as might Sandman Slim (I liked Sandman much better than Hounded, personally).

[Garham]

Thanks!

[Becky]

Allison wrote: "Heroes Die may fit the bill? Still haven't read it, but that's the air I get from it."

Definitely fits the bill.

[Robert]

I will recommend Dying of the Light, the very first novel written by a young George R.R. Martin. It has what you are looking for, macho badass warriors, a very weird world with some strange monsters, and flying cars! Give it try.

[Garham]

Cool. I've read some of grrm's short stories which I enjoyed. His newer stuff is sorta antithetical to everything I enjoy in genre fiction so I'd never really thought to check out his older stuff. Sounds interesting.

Anyone have anything older, weirder, more campy, trashy?

[Udayan]

Second "Dying of the Light"

[Kateb]

not a trash series but one that has the hero with powers etc is John Conroe's Demon accord series.