Anthology Groupread 2020 - Jan Feb on S&S - Goodreads

Sword & Sorcery Group on Goodreads

Happy Yuletide, Xmas, etc... and especially Happy New Year.

The next two months are slotted for Anthology reading, the foundation of the S&S genre is formed from short stories... and plenty of new collections are out there. Classic or new, grab one from your TBR pile and join in.

The Jan-Feb 2020 Anthology discussion folder (link)

"What anthologies are people reading?", a list (disguised as a Poll): Link to list/poll, feel welcome to add your vote (or write one in)

The inspirational Image Banner credits (L-R)

• Blackest Spells - cover by Max Shevchenko - Breaker Maximus
• Lost Lore: A Fantasy Anthology - cover by Andreas Zafeiratos
• Swords of Steel - cover by Martin Hanford

  

Sword and Sorcery Groupread Poll - Jan-Feb Anthologies

Sword and Sorcery Groupread Poll - Jan-Feb topic is (as always): Anthologies

Join us, read and discuss your favorite or newly found S&S anthology!

Poll

Anthology Group Read (Jan-Feb 2020)...not polling for "winners" but using this as a way to show options and selections. Write new options in the write-in section, or in the comments.

Blackest Knights and Blackest Spells
The Fantastic Swordsmen
The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 2, 2011-2013: Best of HFQ Volume 2The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: Volume 1, 2009-2011
Swords of Steel IIISwords of Steel IISwords of Steel
Swords of Fire
Echoes of ValorEchoes of Valor IIEchoes of Valor III
Grimdark Magazine: Issue #1Grimdark Magazine Issue #14Grimdark Magazine Issue #20
Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery
Return of the Sword: An Anthology of Heroic AdventureRage of the Behemoth: An Anthology of Heroic AdventureDemons: A Clash of Steel Anthology

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Nov-Dec Groupreads: Classic REH and Fresh HAJ

The 2019 Nov-Dec Groupread poll for the Goodreads Sword and Sorcery Group is finished. Please join us to discuss and/or read!

Masthead illustration credits:
- Justin Sweet illustration of Kull
- Cover artist TBD of Howard Andrew Jones' Ring-Sworn book #1: For the Killing of Kings

(A) with 13 votes: Link to the Classic Robert E. Howard discussion, ie just the real Conan/Kull/Bran (no pastiche).

 

(B) 10 Votes (with a write-in): Link to discussion folder for Howard Andrew Jones' Ring-Sworn series

 

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The next runner-up with 9 votes was Dyrk Ashton's Paternus and War of Gods books. which will be on our radar in future polls. Note that there is a Kickstarter coming up for that series: 2019 Hard Cover Kickstarter for Dyrk Ashton's War of Gods books -link

 

Nov-Dec Sword & Sorcery Groupread Poll

Group-read Poll - Goodreads Sword and Sorcery Group

Poll

Nov-Dec Group reads vote, inspired by comments in the groups. Usually, 2 votes win for a 2-month duration. Write-in options are welcome.

2019: Howard Andrew Jones's sequel to 2018's For the Killing of Kings is out this Nov. Upon the Flight of the Queen
>2015-2019 D.M. Ritzlin like The Infernal Bargain and Other Stories or Swords of Steel, Swords of Steel II, or Swords of Steel III (an omnibus edition of those 3 come out this Oct.)
2016 Dyrk AshtonPaternus: War of GodsPaternus: Rise of Gods
2017-2019Anna Smith Spark's grimdark series: The Court of Broken Knives, The Tower of Living and Dying, The House of Sacrifice
~1930Robert E. Howard genuine Conan or Kull or Bran or Agnes: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, Kull: Exile of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn: The Last King, or Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures
pre-1920 Pre-Howard Adventure or Heroic Fantasy:George MacDonald's Phantastes, Lord Dunsany's The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, or Beowulf

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Sept-Oct Group-reads - Sword and Sorcery group on Goodreads

The Sword and Sorcery Group on Goodreads...

... invites you to join them, as the Sept Oct group read topics have been elected: 

Discussion A: Lin Carter books, i.e., Thongor (link) 
Discussion B: Sapkowski's Witcher Series (link)
Image Banner Credits-Lin Carter's Thongor Against the Gods, 1979, artist Kevin Eugene Johnson- Sapkowski, Andrzej's The Tower of Swallows, 2016 (artists: Paweł Mielmiczuk, Bartłomiej Gaweł, Marcin Błaszczak, Arkadiusz)

  

Sept-Oct Poll - Goodreads Sword and Sorcery group

Sword & Sorcery Group on Goodreads

We are polling for our Sept-Oct groupreads.
Thanks to moderator "Jack" mak-morn for setting up this poll. All are welcome to vote and to participate in any way.


Poll

Make a selection for our Sept-Oct Group Read. Top two usually win. Thank you for all of the good suggestions in the discussion thread. Richard nominated The Witcher books to coincide with the upcoming Netflix TV adaptation of The Witcher. The Fultz selection narrowly missed out as a Group Read last time, so I added it this month to see if it could make it to the top.

Works by Lin Carter, such as Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria and Conan the Liberator Books from Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series. Howard Andrew Jones' "The Ring-Sword Trilogy" starting with For the Killing of Kings Anna Smith Spark's "Empires of Dust" series, starting with The Court of Broken Knives Clark Ashton Smith, such as The Return Of The Sorcerer: The Best Of Clark Ashton Smith John R. Fultz' "Shaper" series, starting with Seven Princes

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Sword and SorceryGroupreads: Jack Williamson AND Lumely's Primal Land 2019 July Aug

Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" 

July Aug 2019 Groupreads topics have been chosen. Please join in the discussion or groupreads!

A) Jack Williamson group discussion-read-LINK 
Classic Jack Williamson, ie The Reign of Wizardry or Golden Blood (~1933 Weird Tales)

 

B) Lumely's Primal Land group discussion-read-LINK 
Brian Lumley's Primal Land (Shad) series, The House of Cthulhu: Tales of the Primal Land Vol. 1 and Tarra Khash: Hrossak!: Tales of the Primal Land

 

Banner/Masthead Credits
Frazetta's 1964 cover to Jack Williamson's "The Reign of Wizardry"
Melvyn Grant's cover to Brian Lumely's Tarra Khash: Hrossak (Primal Lands #2) 1991