Showing posts with label Goodreads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goodreads. Show all posts

Sunday, June 26, 2022

July-Aug S&S Group Read Topic: NEW EDGE contemporary Sword & Sorcery




Born in 1920, the Sword & Sorcery genre continues to evolve.  Let us hone its "New Edge" (a term coined by Howard Andrew Jones). Discussion thread on Goodreads (click here to join in).

The July August "2-month spotlight/group read" will be New Edge (i.e. contemporary) S&S. Your mission for the next two months:
(1) Explore a new S&S author (and/or magazine).
(2) and, chime in/share
(3) stretch goal.... review the new content to enable new readers to find them!

Let us not get mired in "what is" or "what is not S&S" of the past.
Instead share where you think the genre is going, or can go!

Feel Welcome to keep adding-to or browse the poll/survey used to spur this discussion:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Banner Credits
Magazine on Left / Cover artist
Savage Realms Monthly: May 2022: cover artist unattributed
Tales from the Magician's Skull #7: Sanjulian
Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 4: Jim Pitts
WHETSTONE Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery, Issue Five:Carlos Castilho

Savage Realms Monthly May 2022 by Remy Morgeson Tales from the Magician's Skull #7 by Howard Andrew Jones Swords & Sorceries Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 4 by David A. Riley WHETSTONE Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery, Issue Five by Jason Ray Carney

Books on right / Cover artist
-The Night Eternal: Bruce Pennington
-Mathias Thulmann: Witch Hunter: Marta Dettlaff 2018
-Twilight of the Gods:James Iacobelli -2018
-Worlds Beyond Worlds: The Short Fiction of John R. Fultz: Brian LeBlanc
- The Night Eternal by Steve Lines Mathias Thulmann Witch Hunter (Warhammer Chronicles) by C.L. Werner Twilight of the Gods (Grimnir #2) by Scott Oden - Worlds Beyond Worlds The Short Fiction of John R. Fultz by John R. Fultz



New Edge S&S has been a hot topic lately... spurred on by Scott Oden and others like Oliver:

Putting a NEW EDGE on an Old Blade 
https://scottoden.wordpress.com/2022/...


New Edge S&S Guest Post: Oliver Brackenbury
https://scottoden.wordpress.com/2022/..


Oooh...from the Whetstone discord, the original posts to Howard Andrew Jones' 
"New Edge" Manifesto were provided by "Riobard#6007" : 
https://bg-editor.livejournal.com/21089.html

And another by HAJ ~2010:
http://www.howardandrewjones.com/sword-and-sorcery/a-new-edge

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Monday, April 18, 2022

Tanith Lee and Sword & Planet: Sword & Sorcery Group-read Topics May June 2022

 



The 2022 May June Groupread Topics have been selected and the discussion folders are set.
Please join us!


(A) Tanith Lee
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

(B)Sword and Planet
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Banner Credits
Tanith Lee Night's Master, art by Melvyn Grant, 1981
Tanith Lee Empress of Dreams, DMR Book 2021, art by Lauren Gornik
The Tides of Kregen (Dray Prescot, #12) , art by Michael Whelan, 1976 (Dray Prescot) Alan Burt Akers

Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1) by Tanith Lee Empress of Dreams by Tanith Lee The Tides of Kregen (Dray Prescot, #12) (Krozair Cycle, #1) by Alan Burt Akers

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Annual Anthology Group Read - Jan Feb 2022

 

Join the Sword & Sorcery Group on Goodreads

Jan-Feb 2022 is our annual 2month groupread of Anthologies (and Magazines). All are fair game. Online. Print. Old. New.

Banner Cover Art Credits
Sanjulian - Tales from the Magician's Skull #5
Jim Pitts - Sword and Sorceries #3
Mark Wheatley - Blood on the Blade

Below is a sampling of anthologies being targeted. Feel welcome to add any anthology you plan to read to the "poll" which serves to advertise what is being read or discussed (rather than a "winner").
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...


Whetstone Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery Issue One by Jason Ray Carney Whetstone Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery Issue Two by Jason Ray Carney Whetstone Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery Issue Three by Jason Ray Carney
Whetstone (Free, online) magazine

Swords and Sorceries Tales of Heroic Fantasy Vol. 3 by David A. Riley Swords & Sorceries Tales of Heroic Fantasy by Editor David A. Riley Swords & Sorceries Tales of Heroic Fantasy Vol 2 by David A. Riley
Swords and Sorceries by Parallel Universe

Renegade Swords by D.M. Ritzlin Swords of Steel by D.M. Ritzlin Death Dealers & Diabolists by D.M. Ritzlin Blood on the Blade by Cliff Biggers
DMR books

Robert E. Howard Changed My Life Personal Essays about an Extraordinary Legacy by Robert E. Howard Return of the Sword An Anthology of Heroic Adventure by Jason M. Waltz Death's Sting--Where Art Thou? by Jason M. Waltz
Rogues Blades Entertainment/Foundation

The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Volume 3, 2013-2015 by Adrian Simmons The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Volume 1, 2009-2011 by Adrian Simmons The Best of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Volume 2, 2011-2013 Best of HFQ Volume 2 (Best of heroicfantasyquartelry.com) by Adrian Simmons
HFQ online or collection

Sword and Planet by Christopher Ruocchio
Sword and Planet due out Dec 21