The Classics of Sword & Sorcery Fantasy Literature
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Published 2023-11-08
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I contacted the publisher who holds the rights to Wagner’s work, and they are in the process of rereleasing his Kane stories, which currently are expensive and hard to come by in good condition, if anyone’s interested.
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There is FANTASTIC Fafherd and Grey Mouser comic book drawn by Mike MIgnola! WONDERFUL ART
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Great King Liam has created the greatest video of all! All hail his wisdom and his might!
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Its really cool that we can totally see your love for these books shining through while you lay out the characters. Im sold!
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‘The Knight,’ ‘Soldier of the Mist,’ and ‘Soldier of Arete’ all by Gene Wolfe
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I’ve been a huge fan of Robert E Howard, Michael Moorcock, and Fritz Leiber since the late 1980s. I just recently this last January read Poul Anderson’s book, “The Broken Sword” I really enjoyed how it incorporated aspects of Norse and Irish mythology in the narrative. It also has forbidden love with the main protagonist and his biological sister. Great choices for Sword and Sorcery.
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Tanith Lee - an excellent author. Gene Wolfe also.
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Face in the Frost by Bellairs, Last Unicorn by Beagle, Red Moon, Black Mountain by Chant, Incomplete Enchanter by DeCamp
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Keep the Sword & Sorcery coming! Love it! I’d love to see you show off all the books you have in this genre. Howard’s my favorite but I love almost all the authors you mentioned. Would enjoy some deeper dives into prose, characterization, world building and style between all those authors. Keep up the good work!
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Thank you so much for pushing and spreading the word of sword and sorcery, you're voice is being heard by young readers, wanting to delve the wizard that yearns for knowledge and experience!
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Love your informative video, which brought back memories. I started reading S&S in the 1970s. Howard, Smith, Leiber, Vance, Moorcock, Dunsany, I read them all. Smith has remained a firm favorite because of his amazing (verbal) imagination. You're doing an excellent job. Kudos!
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One of the great later sword and sorcery series that a lot of people forget is the Theives World series of books it is a shared universe with stories written by a number of different authors all taking place for the most part in the city of Sactuary. It consists of 12 anthologies, and I believe 4 or 5 novels.
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CAS is my favorite so far. Read Lovecraft and Howard but Smith has such originality and mystic wonder in his writings that is unmatched. You read sentences that no other author could write. I hope to write like him, his philosophical outlook of taking the imagination outward instead of inward in morbid introspection helped him create those stories. Huge inspiration for DD when I DM as well. ❤
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Read almost all of the big three, thanks for the secondary recommendations...never heard of Imaro before.
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I absolutely love Howard's stories, particularly his Conan stories. The Hour of the Dragon is fantastic. His Great Game stories (El Borak, etc.) are also epic tales. If I had to list my favorite author of all time, it would be Howard. Clark Ashton Smith is heavily underrated and sadly forgotten by most. He creates such bizarre and interesting worlds and creatures. I really like his Zothique stories.
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Heard the name Clark Ashton Smith but never read any of his work. This needs to change, sounds right up my alley.
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If anyone wants to try Tanith Lee, I could recommend her fairy tales in Red As Blood. They included a new story in the thirtieth anniversary reprint.
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I would consider many of the stories in the Thieves' World anthologies to be S&S also.
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I can't say I care for them, but before he started doing sprawling American historical melodramas, John Jakes wrote a series of S&S stories about Brak the Barbarian.
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Leiber is my number one. Forgotten (?) by a lot of younger folk. ❤❤
