Genre: Sword and Sorcery
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Pyr
Publication Date: September 2010
ISBN-10: 1616142421
ISBN-13: 978-1616142421
Author Website: Sam Sykes
“Now, the bottommost practice for a man who carried a sword, the absolute dregs of the well, the lowliest and meanest trade a man can possibly embrace after he decides not to put away his weapon is that of an adventurer.”
Tome [...]
Posts under ‘Sword and Sorcery’
Book Review: Tome of the Undergates by Sam Sykes
Book Review: Song of the Dragon by Tracy Hickman
Genre: Epic Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Publication Date: July 6, 2010
ISBN-10: 0756406072
ISBN-13: 978-0756406073
Author Website: Tracy Hickman
Song of the Dragon is the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Hickman, best known for his collaborations with Margaret Weis on Dragonlance and the Death Gate Cycle. The story here is entirely Hickman’s [...]
Book Review: Stuff of Legends by Ian Gibson
Genre: Humor, Satire, Comic Fantasy
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Ace
Publication Date: July 27, 2010
ISBN-10: 0441019307
ISBN-13: 978-0441019304
Author Website: Ian Gibson
Every boy dreams of adventure. Just look at young adult shelves if you do not yet believe. Any adult avid reader likely has a story of a teacher, parent of friend handing them a novel full of rousing adventure, [...]
Book Review: Shadow’s Son by Jon Sprunk
Genre: Sword and Sorcery
Paperback: 279 pages
Publisher: Pyr
Publication Date: June 8, 2010
ISBN-10: 1616142014
ISBN-13: 978-1616142018
Author Website: Jon Sprunk
Shadow’s Son, by debut author Jon Sprunk, is an exciting sword and sorcery fantasy that follows the story of an assassin, Caim, as he finds himself thrust into an insidious plot meant to bring about his death and change [...]
Book Review: Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Paperback: 612 pages
Publisher: Pyr
Publication Date: March 23, 2010
ISBN-10: 1616141921
ISBN-13: 978-1616141929
Author Website: Adrian Tchaikovsky
In Empire in Black and Gold, debut author Adrian Tchaikovsky brings to fantasy a setting that is near unique, and a story full of sword and sorcery action.
The story follows one Stenwold Maker, a politician and spymaster, who recruits a merry [...]
Book Review: The God Catcher by Erin M. Evans
Genre: Shared World, Sword and Sorcery, Media Tie-In
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
ISBN-10: 0786954868
ISBN-13: 978-0786954865
Author Website: Erin M. Evans
Debut novelist Erin M. Evans adds her style stamp to the Forgotten Realms mythos in The God Catcher.
The story is told (mostly) from the perspective of Tennora, a young [...]
Book Review: Realms of the Dead edited by Susan J. Morris
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. [...]
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.
