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Tag Archives: heroic fantasy
Steven Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the Fallen, Vols. 1-5
Gardens of the Moon Deadhouse Gates Memories of Ice House of Chains Midnight Tides I’ve been listening to Richard Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen and I’ve been reading Midnight Tides, book five of Steven Erikson’s The Malazan Book of the … Continue reading
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Glen Cook’s Working God’s Mischief
Working God’s Mischief is the fourth installment in Glen Cook’s Instrumentalities of the Night. It’s hard to know how to lead into this one, so I’m going to let Cook do it: Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The … Continue reading
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Glen Cook’s The Many Deaths of the Black Company (Water Sleeps, Soldiers Live)
If you stop think about it, it’s rather remarkable that a living writer of speculative fiction finds himself with reissues of seemingly all of his earlier works hitting the market while he’s working on new ones. I think it says … Continue reading
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Glen Cook’s The Return of the Black Company (Bleak Seasons, She Is the Darkness)
The Return of the Black Company is the third installment of Tor’s reissue of The Annals of the Black Company, Glen Cook’s epic fantasy series. At this stage, the Black Company is at war with the Shadowlords, some of whom, … Continue reading
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Glen Cook’s The Books of the South (Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, The Silver Spike)
Glen Cooks’ Annals of the Black Company ranks as one of the most significant (and most popular) fantasy series since Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. While I won’t go so far as to agree with Steven Erikson that Cook “singlehandedly … Continue reading
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Glen Cook’s Chronicles of the Black Company (The Black Company, Shadows Linger, The White Rose)
We all have our personal lists, individual counterparts to those periodic lists of “most important,” “best,” or whatever the accolade of the moment might be. I have a personal list of “best fantasy series” that includes some works that might … Continue reading
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of The Rings
Naomi de Bruyn penned this review for Folk Tales, the predecessor to GMR. It all began with an innocent tale for the kids, something to keep them amused and allow Tolkien to stretch his imagination and storytelling skills with the now … Continue reading
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Robert E. Howard’s Kull: Exile of Atlantis
I’m sitting here somewhat red in the face at having to admit that, though a long-standing aficionado of heroic fantasy, I’ve never read anything by Robert E. Howard. It’s an appalling failure on my part, happily now rectified by the … Continue reading
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Michael Moorcock’s Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné
Volume 1: The Stealer of Souls Volume 2: To Rescue Tanelorn Volume 3: The Sleeping Sorceress Volume 4: Duke Elric “Michael Moorcock.” Say that name three times at the dark of the moon and you will undoubtedly summon the spirit … Continue reading
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Various Artists’ The Saga of Solomon Kane and Roy Thomas, Ralph Macchio, et al’s The Chronicles of Solomon Kane
The heroes created by Robert E. Howard have gone through many manifestations, from magazine serials to story collections to film and comics. Comics seem to have provided particularly fertile ground — there are adaptations of Howard’s stories, stories developed from … Continue reading
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