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Post by emerald on Jun 21, 2020 12:26:14 GMT -5
James Enge, Howard Andrew Jones, Michael Curtis, Joseph Goodman and myself hold forth about Sword & Sorcery fiction.
Leigh Brackett, Lin Carter, Lord Dunsany, R.E. Howard, Harold Lamb, Andrew Offutt, Charles Saunders, Michael Shea, Clark Ashton Smith, Roy Thomas, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman and a good many more all come up and get discussed with plenty of enthusiasm.
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Post by Von K on Jun 21, 2020 16:02:30 GMT -5
James Enge, Howard Andrew Jones, Michael Curtis, Joseph Goodman and myself hold forth about Sword & Sorcery fiction. Leigh Brackett, Lin Carter, Lord Dunsany, R.E. Howard, Harold Lamb, Andrew Offutt, Charles Saunders, Michael Shea, Clark Ashton Smith, Roy Thomas, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman and a good many more all come up and get discussed with plenty of enthusiasm. That was great John, thanks. It would be great to see some of those more obscure titles back in print. Good to see Keith Taylor and Charles Saunders discussed. As mentioned they probably came out just a little too late to be an influence on Gary Gygax but their work is definitely worthy of a mention in appendix N.
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Jun 23, 2020 12:47:31 GMT -5
I am not sure if anyone has provided a link to the new online sword and sorcery magazine Whetstone, but here is the link: whetstonemag.blogspot.com/The new magazine is edited by Jason Ray Carney who, along with his wife, edits The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies (for which there is a new issue coming out soon. I am half-way through reading the premier issue of Whetstone and, so far, "The Wizard's Demise" by Geza A.G. Reilly and "As Repellant as I" by Charles A. Folmar are my favorites, though I have enjoyed them all.
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Post by Von K on Jun 24, 2020 2:53:46 GMT -5
I am not sure if anyone has provided a link to the new online sword and sorcery magazine Whetstone, but here is the link: whetstonemag.blogspot.com/The new magazine is edited by Jason Ray Carney who, along with his wife, edits The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies (for which there is a new issue coming out soon. I am half-way through reading the premier issue of Whetstone and, so far, "The Wizard's Demise" by Geza A.G. Reilly and "As Repellant as I" by Charles A. Folmar are my favorites, though I have enjoyed them all. Thank for the info linefacedscrivener. I remember Jason mentioning something along these lines at last years Howard Days and am pleased to see it come to fruition. I'll just add that it's free to download and has a cover by Bill Cavalier. I'm currently reading it, some great short yarns in the mix.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 30, 2020 21:38:14 GMT -5
Wasn't quite sure where to put this, but I opted for a neutral thread.
Razorfist dives into the similarities between Elric and the Witcher:
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Jul 2, 2020 16:49:03 GMT -5
So, while eating lunch, I was watching the video on Sword & Sorcery of Appendix N above. I enjoyed that immensely. It is nice to be reminded that there are people still out there for whom I share similar interests, something I don't get at work or reading the news.
Anyway, at the beginning, they were talking about Harold Lamb, whom I have been reading a lot of lately (past two years). They mentioned one story, a favorite for several of the guys, because it had a tower on an island in the middle of the lake and the hero uses reindeer to drive away those laying siege to the tower - something along those lines. This story did not ring a bell with me, but sounds awesome.
Anyone know the title?
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Jul 6, 2020 7:52:52 GMT -5
So, while eating lunch, I was watching the video on Sword & Sorcery of Appendix N above. I enjoyed that immensely. It is nice to be reminded that there are people still out there for whom I share similar interests, something I don't get at work or reading the news. Anyway, at the beginning, they were talking about Harold Lamb, whom I have been reading a lot of lately (past two years). They mentioned one story, a favorite for several of the guys, because it had a tower on an island in the middle of the lake and the hero uses reindeer to drive away those laying siege to the tower - something along those lines. This story did not ring a bell with me, but sounds awesome. Anyone know the title? So, this is odd. I am replying to my own question. The good folks at Goodman Games posted the video and included a bibliography of all the books mentioned. The story I was asking about by Harold Lamb was apparently: "Changa Nor." Which explains why I was unfamiliar with the story - I have not read it. Here is the link to the video and bibliography: goodman-games.com/blog/2020/06/20/dcc-days-online-seminar-sword-sorcery-of-appendix-n/
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Post by alexander on Jul 11, 2020 4:54:59 GMT -5
So, while eating lunch, I was watching the video on Sword & Sorcery of Appendix N above. I enjoyed that immensely. It is nice to be reminded that there are people still out there for whom I share similar interests, something I don't get at work or reading the news. Anyway, at the beginning, they were talking about Harold Lamb, whom I have been reading a lot of lately (past two years). They mentioned one story, a favorite for several of the guys, because it had a tower on an island in the middle of the lake and the hero uses reindeer to drive away those laying siege to the tower - something along those lines. This story did not ring a bell with me, but sounds awesome. Anyone know the title? So, this is odd. I am replying to my own question. The good folks at Goodman Games posted the video and included a bibliography of all the books mentioned. The story I was asking about by Harold Lamb was apparently: "Changa Nor." Which explains why I was unfamiliar with the story - I have not read it. Here is the link to the video and bibliography: goodman-games.com/blog/2020/06/20/dcc-days-online-seminar-sword-sorcery-of-appendix-n/You can read this story in Wolf of the Steppes, the first book in the anthology of Khlit the Cossack from Bison Books
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Post by linefacedscrivener on Jul 22, 2020 18:05:11 GMT -5
So, this is odd. I am replying to my own question. The good folks at Goodman Games posted the video and included a bibliography of all the books mentioned. The story I was asking about by Harold Lamb was apparently: "Changa Nor." Which explains why I was unfamiliar with the story - I have not read it. Here is the link to the video and bibliography: goodman-games.com/blog/2020/06/20/dcc-days-online-seminar-sword-sorcery-of-appendix-n/You can read this story in Wolf of the Steppes, the first book in the anthology of Khlit the Cossack from Bison Books I read the story on my trip to Reserve, New Mexico. Awesome! Thanks for pointing me to a book I already own. Some time back, I had read the first two Khlit stories and was not all that impressed with the character. This one has made me rethink my earlier opinion. I am planning to continue reading the next several stories. I really liked his Crusaders book - that one was fantastic.
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Post by garbanzo on Jul 25, 2020 7:27:18 GMT -5
Frank Thorne’s Ghita, An Erotic Treasury volumes 1 and 2 are on sale for $49.99 each from Hermes Press, plus you can get an additional 25% off with code SDCC@HOME2020
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jul 25, 2020 8:40:40 GMT -5
Frank Thorne’s Ghita, An Erotic Treasury volumes 1 and 2 are on sale for $49.99 each from Hermes Press, plus you can get an additional 25% off with code SDCC@HOME2020
How are the Ghita stories? I have to admit it's my first time hearing about them.
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Post by garbanzo on Jul 25, 2020 9:41:27 GMT -5
The art is great, but the story is pretty cheesy. It's basically a mildly pornographic version of Thorne's Red Sonja with Thorne himself written in as a horny old wizard.
It was first published in the old Warren mag 1984/1994, so if you've ever read any of those, you should know what to expect.
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