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Post by deuce on Oct 5, 2016 8:55:50 GMT -5
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Post by thedarkman on Oct 5, 2016 9:31:18 GMT -5
Mr. Price just announced this: "Just received an advance copy of my book The Sword of Thongor!" Apparently, it's going live on Amazon any day now. Let us know what you think! I will order this one for sure. Oops! Upon re-reading this post, I realized that it was Mr. Price receiving the advance copy, not Duece! But I still wanna get this...
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Post by paulmc on Oct 6, 2016 14:35:35 GMT -5
David Drake has written an S&S tale set in Italy. The protagonist is a Gaul in the army of Brennus. The story is free here: www.tor.com/2016/08/18/up-from-hell/I enjoyed it quite a bit. That was fun. Thanks!
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Post by thedarkman on Oct 8, 2016 9:00:08 GMT -5
Just heard this from Robert M. Price: "Gonna adapt a Conan novel outline I wrote, accepted by Sprague de Camp for the TOR series long ago. It will be a Thongor story, "Temple of the Black One."IMO, RMP (who's executor of Lin's estate), writes Thongor as good or better than Carter. Mr. Price just announced this: "Just received an advance copy of my book The Sword of Thongor!" Apparently, it's going live on Amazon any day now. I see this is now available as a paperback from Amazon for $20. 210 pages, 10 short stories. I was hoping for an ebook version, but I may get this book anyway.
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Post by deuce on Oct 11, 2016 10:02:25 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 14, 2016 8:03:49 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 17, 2016 11:20:42 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 17, 2016 23:07:33 GMT -5
Someone we haven't mentioned on this thread yet is Bruce Durham. Bruce writes classic sword-and-sorcery and has been for 15yrs. His two main series protagonists are Dalacroy and Morlock. Dalacroy is in the general ballpark with Conan, Eric John Stark and Fafhrd, with maybe a touch of the Mouser and Elak. Morlock is more of a "grunt", with similarities tending toward Glen Cook's hard-luck mercs as well as Keith Taylor's Nasach. Both series have been widely praised and Durham has won several awards. Here's the bibliography with excerpts: www.brucedurham.ca/page2.htmlThe S&S is concentrated in the bottom half. In recent years, Durham has been branching out into well-done Lovecraftian horror and series anthologies like the "...In Hell" volumes edited by Janet Morris. Check 'em out. We need Bruce to return to his roots.
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Post by deuce on Oct 21, 2016 10:22:13 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 28, 2016 14:58:46 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Nov 2, 2016 14:15:55 GMT -5
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Post by themirrorthief on Nov 4, 2016 16:12:43 GMT -5
The other day I read a nice Conan pastiche by Poul Anderson called Virgin of Valkarion...it was a well written novella about a guy named Alfric the Wanderer who rode into town and found himself in a war. I enjoyed it, Alfric was basically Conan but totally merciless...a good one
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Post by Jason Aiken on Nov 4, 2016 16:32:36 GMT -5
The other day I read a nice Conan pastiche by Poul Anderson called Virgin of Valkarion...it was a well written novella about a guy named Alfric the Wanderer who rode into town and found himself in a war. I enjoyed it, Alfric was basically Conan but totally merciless...a good one That was indeed a nice, disguised sword and sorcery tale from Planet Stories. I was thinking it may have been a reworked Conan pastiche while I was reading it.
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Post by themirrorthief on Nov 4, 2016 16:48:24 GMT -5
it definitely had Howard all over it...not a lot of that stuff written back in the pulp era other than Howard
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Post by deuce on Dec 2, 2016 19:38:01 GMT -5
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