Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Publication Date: January 5, 2010
ISBN-10: 0786953632
ISBN-13: 978-0786953639
The undead are strangely, eerily fascinating. Their variety, incomprehensible nature, and admixture of the real and unreal make these seemingly simple creatures into the most compelling of characters, even when they lack personality of their own. [...]
Posts under ‘Sword and Sorcery’
Book Review: Realms of the Dead edited by Susan J. Morris
Book Review: The Edge of Chaos by Jak Koke
# Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Original edition
# Publication Date: August 4, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951893
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951895
# Author Website: Jak Koke
The Edge of Chaos is a great recent addition to the Forgotten Realms mythos, in which a spellscarred rouge and a female devotee of [...]
Book Review: City of Torment by Bruce R. Cordell
# Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
# Publication Date: September 1, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951842
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951840
# Author Website: Bruce R. Cordell
City of Torment, by award-winning game designer Bruce R. Cordell, is the second book in his Abolethic Sovereignty trilogy set in the Forgotten Realms. In [...]
Free Fiction: Volo Breaks a Hot Tale by Ed Greenwood
At Gen Con Game Fair 2008, many fans of the Forgotten Realms setting joined up with Ed Greenwood at the Spin a Yarn seminar to brainstorm a few ideas for a short story. Here is Part One, and here is the listing page for all the parts.
Book Review: Downshadow by Erik Scott de Bie
# Genre: Shared World, Forgotten Realms, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
# Publication Date: April 7, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0786951281
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951284
# Author Blog: Sors Immanis et Inanis
# Author Website: Erik Scott de Bie
In Erik Scott de Bie’s third novel set in the Forgotten Realms milieu, Downshadow he [...]
Book Review: The King’s Daughters by Nathalie Mallet
# Genre: Mystery, Sword and Sorcery
# Paperback: 384 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
# Publication Date: July 15, 2008
# ISBN-10: 1597801356
# ISBN-13: 978-1597801355
# Author Website: Nathalie Mallet
French-Canadian author Nathalie Mallet has set herself a difficult challenge. Her novels, The Princes of the Golden Cage and the just released The King’s Daughters not only are written [...]
Book Review: City of the Dead by Rosemary Jones
# Genre: Shared Worlds, Forgotten Realms, Sword and Sorcery
# Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
# Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (June 2, 2009)
# ISBN-10: 078695129X
# ISBN-13: 978-0786951291
# Author Blog: Rosemary Jones
Rosemary Jones first appeared in the Forgotten Realms universe with her dungeon-diving novel (plus a little white dog) The Crypt of the Moaning Diamond. In her [...]
Book Review: Rage of the Behemoth edited by Jason M. Waltz
Genre: Anthology, Sword and Sorcery
Publisher: Rogue Blades Entertainment
Publication Date: June 1, 2009
Edition: Trade Paperback (344 pages)
ISBN: 0982053622
ISBN-13: 978-0982053621
Rage of the Behemoth the new anthology of sword and sorcery fiction from Rogue Blades Entertainment takes as its theme the constant struggle between man and beast. Since Perseus first slaughtered the sea monster or Beowulf his dragon, [...]
Book Review: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
# Genre: Sword and Planet; Hard SF
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Night Shade Books
#Publication Date: April 15, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1597801518
# ISBN-13: 978-1597801515
They are the greatest questions humanity has ever faced. Who are we? Why do we exist? What is our purpose? We live in a time of questing for the answers, a time of existentialism [...]
Book Review: Blood of Ambrose by James Enge
# Genre: Sword and Sorcery, Epic/High Fantasy
# Paperback: 480 pages
# Publisher: Pyr
# Publication Date: April 21, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1591027365
# ISBN-13: 978-1591027362
# Author Website
I have been a fanboy of Morlock Ambrosius and his creator James Enge ever since they first appeared in Black Gate 8 with “Turn up this Crooked Way”. The stories of Morlock, [...]
