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New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2024 only launched on Backerkit yesterday and it's already 75% funded!
Be a part of literary history when backing this project by helping us publish the first new Jirel of Joiry story in 85 years!
There's also an obscure Elric reprint paired with new art, an S&S tale by Harry Turtledove, and scads of crowdfund exclusive rewards. Check out the campaign page to learn more!
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Books I Read in 2023
* = Re-read
Check out past years: 2012, 2013 (skipped), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Follow me on Goodreads to get these reviews as they happen.
1) A Book of Blades: Rogues in the House Presents edited by L.D. Whitney
This book, assembled by the great guys behind the premier podcast in the genre, is an excellent way to sample a breadth of contemporary Sword & Sorcery fiction!
My favorite story was "The Blood of Old Shard" by John R. Fultz, with Scott Oden and Howard Andrew Jones' tales close behind, and there were no duds in the mix. "The Blood..." really surprised me with a heart and inventiveness which the opening doesn't give away yet, you realize upon finishing, deftly sets up.
2) Fires of Azeroth by C.J. Cherryh
Left my big ol’ spoiler-laden review on Goodreads for ya.
3) Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
4) The Citadel of Forgotten Myths by Michael Moorcock
*5) Neuromancer by William Gibson
6) The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky
7) The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I confess I finished the first book in this series having enjoyed myself, but wondering if I'd remember what I'd read a year from now.
I don't have that concern with its follow-up. Tchaikovsky has enriched the world he set up in the first installment quite nicely, and I hope I get to explore it further in a third.
8) Old Moon Quarterly: Issue 3
9) Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
10) The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain
11) The Dreamthief's Daughter: A Tale of the Albino by Michael Moorcock
12) Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
Do you think you’d enjoy hearing Tarantino discuss mainly his childhood and adolescence re: movies that meant a lot to him during that period? Congrats, this is extremely that. It could not be more that.
13) The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe
14) Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk
Roughly 70/30 instructional / biographical. Has a lot of good advice, focusing on a more literary mode than classic genre stylings, all in a voice and coming from a place any Palahniuk fan will be familiar with (I would have been stunned NOT to find something like the "Voice of Authority" snippet in a writing book by Palahniuk).
Entertaining and providing what mostly felt like useful, actionable advice, I'd say it can be handy for writers who aren't knowledgeable of the author's works, but knowing at least a couple of his books can help contextualize his advice so you can determine which parts are right for you or not.
15) Death Angel's Shadow by Karl Edward Wagner
16) Night Winds by Karl Edward Wagner
17) Wyngraf Issue #1 Edited by Nathaniel Webb
18) Rakefire and Other Stories by Jason Ray Carney
19) The White Lion by Scott Oden
20) Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts by Patrick Syme, Abraham Gottlob Werner
(Illustrator)
21) Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
22) Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew Jones
*23) Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
24) Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
25) Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
*26) The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
27) Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain
28) Swords in the Shadows, Edited by Cullen Bunn
29) The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
30) Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
31) The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
32) New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1, Edited by Oliver Brackenbury
33) New Edge Sword & Sorcery #2, Edited by Oliver Brackenbury
34) A Book of Blades: Volume II: Rogues in the House Podcast Presents, Edited by L.D. Whitney
35) Old Moon Quarterly: Issue 4, Spring 2023: A Magazine of Dark Fantasy and Sword and Sorcery, Edited by OMQ
36) The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch
37) The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett
38) Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
39) Old Moon Quarterly: Issue 5, Edited by OMQ
STATS
Non-Fiction: 6
Fiction: 33
Poetry Collections: 0
Comic Trades: 0
Wrote Myself: 2
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Issues one and two of New Edge Sword & Sorcery magazine are officially out. As editor & publisher, I'm very proud of what we've produced.
The magazine features short stories and non-fiction, accompanied by gorgeous illustrations!
They are available in digital, softcover, and hardcover formats...but the hardcover of #1 has already sold out!
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In Sword & Sorcery the classics tend to get much more discussion than contemporary stories, and I love discussing stores, so welcome to the monthly contemporary Short Story Chat!
In our latest episode we cover Mark Rigney's story from Tales from the Magician's Skull #7, "Dara's Tale". It struck me as a possible "YA S&S" tale, and was a great springboard for our panel to discuss the idea of MG/YA Sword & Sorcery, "timeless moral or ham-fisted topicality?", rubbing slugs on your face, and more!
Check out past episodes on the New Edge Sword & Sorcery Youtube Channel.
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Waiting for an invite to bluer skies? Don't want to lose track of New Edge Sword & Sorcery? Subscribing to our low-frequency, high quality newsletter is always a good idea.
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There are two types of skull planet.
Art by Ray Feibush (left) and Bruce Pennington. Check out these illustrations along with 400 others in my new art book - "Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s" is out now!
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My short story "Something Oath-Like" appears in this new anthology which is published by the guys behind the Sword & Sorcery podcast, Rogues in the House.
The story stars my character Voe, making this the first published work featuring the protagonist my podcast's titular novel is about.
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Andrew Robinson on playing Garak for the first time.
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It's "Magazine Month" on SIWAN this February, which we're kicking off by interviewing Graham and Caitlyn, two thirds of the people behind a new Sword & Sorcery magazine which debuted in the summer of 2022 - OLD MOON QUARTERLY!
Their Website (Twitter and Instagram)
www.soimwritinganovel.com
PATREON: www.patreon.com/soimwritinganovel
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