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Post by deuce on Jan 8, 2017 10:27:19 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 8, 2017 19:44:16 GMT -5
>>>>>>>>>BREAKING NEWS<<<<<<<<< Robert M. Price: "My forthcoming anthology The Mighty Warriors is a tribute to these great collections [like The Mighty Swordsmen]. It will boast a Bruce Timm cover, a Steranko pastiche featuring Thongor. New tales of Thongor, Elak, Imaro, Oron, Gonji, Simon of Gitta and others."
Don't know about y'all, but that sounds mighty promising. Now this really does sound promising. Old school heroes in force. Is Taylor's Bard in there? Any Brak, Kothar, Ryre or Cugel? Is Mr. Price publishing this one himself? When might we see it? No matter. I won't miss it. Hey Mr. Hocking! There's no Keith Taylor and none of the others you mention, either (though I might be mistaken). Who would write Cugel now that Vance and Shea are both gone? If I were going to resurrect a Gar Fox hero, it would be Nial. RMP knows Campbell, so we could always hope for a Ryre tale in the future. I wouldn't mind seeing David Drake bring back Wellman's Kardios, or at least bring back his own Vettius. The only new Brak tale I want to see is the one Jakes supposedly wrote and put in a safe, where Brak finally plods into Khurdisan. Some closure, please. I'll post more publishing details as I see them.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jan 8, 2017 23:13:56 GMT -5
From the Horrified Press Facebook Page: I have a short tale that spotlights Nuja of Lomar in this one. All of the tales in this anthology were supposed to take place in either Lomar or Hyperborea.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jan 9, 2017 15:32:28 GMT -5
jonathanstrahan.podbean.com/e/episode-264-glen-cook-and-steven-erikson/While I don't consider Glen Cook a sword & sorcery writer per say (I haven't read Erikson yet), this is an interesting conversation with the two of them, as sword & sorcery authors do come up. Cook mentions how he wanted his early Dread Empire stories to be like the early Conan stories, and they briefly talk about REH. Cook talks about his time living with Fritz Leiber as well, and it's very interesting. I guess they shared a small apartment and had to sleep in the same bed. They'd write back to back and Leiber would turn around and give him advice. Cook also said that he and Leiber used each other's characters passingly, mentioning (I think I transcribed this correctly, but it gets a bit muffled toward the end, you can check for yourself at 50 Minutes 40 seconds) "We used each other's characters in stories you know, just in passing. You saw my character Bragi across the bar staring into the flames in a tavern." I'm wondering what book or series this is in... Something tells me it's probably in a later Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser story, but I can't find "Bragi" by searching for it. Most likely he wasn't named? Bragi is one of Cook's characters in the Dread Empire series. Cook also lets slip that Monk and Ham from Doc Savage were an inspiration for One-Eye and Goblin in his Black Company series, which I never picked up on.
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Post by deuce on Jan 10, 2017 13:56:55 GMT -5
>>>>>>>>>BREAKING NEWS<<<<<<<<< Robert M. Price: "My forthcoming anthology The Mighty Warriors is a tribute to these great collections [like The Mighty Swordsmen]. It will boast a Bruce Timm cover, a Steranko pastiche featuring Thongor. New tales of Thongor, Elak, Imaro, Oron, Gonji, Simon of Gitta and others."
Adrian Cole: "Robert Price will be bringing out a tribute anthology to this beast, The Mighty Warriors, which will include a host of favorite characters, including Elak of Atlantis, creation of a young Henry Kuttner, this time from my own humble pen."Don't know about y'all, but that sounds mighty promising. This from RMP: Just outlining a new Simon of Gitta tale (with Richard L. Tierney's blessing) called The Secret of Nephren-Ka [for The Mighty Warriors anthology].Simon is Richard L. Tierney's classic S&S hero who loves and slays during the era of Caligula and Tiberius. The tales also take place within the REH/Lovecraft/Clark Ashton Smith universe as a bonus. Price has co-written Simon tales with RLT before. The Mighty Warriors is being published by Sam Gafford's Ulthar Press: www.ultharpress.com/
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Post by deuce on Jan 15, 2017 11:11:29 GMT -5
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Post by almuric on Jan 15, 2017 12:39:52 GMT -5
Yes, Carter could have benefited from taking a little more time and care with his work. But he could still hit one out of the ballpark once in a while.
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Post by emerald on Jan 15, 2017 15:04:10 GMT -5
Excellent overview from Morgan. While there's little to be said in favor of his worst efforts, so much of Carter's fiction was suffused with fannish delight and enthusiasm that I can't help but get a grin out of it. The review excerpts Morgan includes which hammer The Wizard of Lemuria, while not inaccurate, seem to be kind of getting angry at a Hostess Twinkie for being a Hostess Twinkie, casting it on the ground and stomping on it to prove that it's nothing but a calorie laden piece of junk food with no vitamins whatsoever. Well, yeah. But my reading diet contains enough nutrients that I can handle some empty calories now and then. I just can't hate a Twinkie for being a Twinkie. Also very cool to see Morgan standing up for The Lost World of Time, which was always considered Carter's best work by my old crowd of shaggy-headed teenage reprobates. We had a communal copy that circulated for years.
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Post by almuric on Jan 15, 2017 17:59:39 GMT -5
Those early space opera/science-fantasy novels they mention are among the few Carter works I've never sampled. They sound as if they are influenced by Planet Stories, which I understand was Carter's favorite pulp. I'll have to check out those and Lost World of Time as soon as possible.
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Post by thedarkman on Jan 16, 2017 17:48:10 GMT -5
Anybody here familiar with the Slaine novels by Steven Savile? I have seen them around once in a while, but the internet is mysteriously quiet concerning these books. Any thoughts?
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Post by deuce on Jan 16, 2017 23:39:22 GMT -5
Anybody here familiar with the Slaine novels by Steven Savile? I have seen them around once in a while, but the internet is mysteriously quiet concerning these books. Any thoughts? I've heard some talk here n' there. The general reaction seems to be a bit "meh".
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Post by deuce on Jan 18, 2017 11:18:01 GMT -5
From the Horrified Press Facebook Page: I have a short tale that spotlights Nuja of Lomar in this one. All of the tales in this anthology were supposed to take place in either Lomar or Hyperborea. It'll be good to see another Nuja tale! I hope the other contributors have done their homework reading Clark Ashton Smith and HPL.
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Post by deuce on Jan 22, 2017 19:54:53 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 23, 2017 19:47:40 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 28, 2017 22:12:49 GMT -5
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