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from the Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" group.
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Wow! Thank you so much for the response, that was very helpful! I’m going to start with Eda Blessed!
Any recommendations on where to start with his books? Is any series a particularly good intro to his work?
Continuing my read of Death Angel’s Shadow. It reminds me how much I love how Wagner mixes genre with his Kane stories. “Reflections” had a great gothic, who-done-it feel and “Cold Light” has a very western feel. It’s reminding me of Wagner’s love of Sam Peckinpah. Does anyone else dig his mashups? Are there other authors folks recommend who do the mashup well?
I only have two of them, Dark Crusade and luckily picked up Darkness Weaves at a library sale.
I encountered his S&S first, I had read "The Gothic Touch" in a Moorcock tribute anthology and then "Misericorde" in a S&S anthology. However it wasn't until I borrowed Volume 1 of the Centipede horror collection that I got hooked. I tore through all his horror and have gone back and read the S&S. Has anyone started reading Death Angel's Shadow for this read yet?
S.E. wrote: "A while back there was an awesome Podcast read along at:https://thedarkcrusade.wordpress.com/
I'm hoping to lure Jordan Douglas Smith here."
I'm officially lured in! Just finished reading "Reflections for the Winter of my Soul" from Death Angel's Shadow. Doing some background research now and I hope to help stimulate conversations in September!
Jack wrote: "S.E. wrote: "Nice review Jack. You found learned about “new” authors and added to your to-read pile.I just started Twilight Echoes 1."
Ah, good, a Twilight book. The Bella/Edward/Jacob love tria..."
This cracked me up! I'm reading
Skelos #3 for this read. It's been giving me the side eye from my TBR pile for awhile.
Great to see all the banners in a row like that!I’m so torn on what to read!
I just picked up Princess of Mars from the library, looking forward to my first Burroughs. I love what y’all brought up about covers. For these great series (Howard, Moorcock, Norton, etc.) I feel like the covers of the books when I first started reading them encapsulated them. In collecting I find I’m drawn to those editions.
I’ve never read ANY Burroughs so I’m really looking forward to John Carter!
Joseph wrote: "Did he write any non-Kane novels (aside from the two REH pastiches)?"He co-wrote Killer with David Drake. There is some debate about who wrote what though.
He also wrote erotica and had one published novel The Other Women under the name Kent Allard (from Sticks!). That novel is super rare, I've never seen anyone willing to sell it.
Joseph wrote: "Oh, and now that I've finished rereading the books, I started listening to the podcast and am quite enjoying it."Thanks for giving the podcast a listen!
I think my first interaction with Kane was 'The Gothic Touch' in high school. I was a huge Elric fan and got the Elric: Tales of the White Wolf as one of the selections for the month for the Science Fiction Book Club.
I next encountered 'Undertow' in The Sword & Sorcery Anthology. I didn't put two and two together until I read 'Bloodstone' in a 70s sword and sorcery club I was in. After that, I was hooked.
Loved reading your posts. After working through the series any stand out as a favorite?
-- in some ways, I think Kane works better in short stories than in novels."I always loved the stories best where Kane is seen as a force in the background or an observer to the tale being told. That being said "Reflections" in Death Angel's Shadow is probably my favorite and I remember that being a pretty straightforward narrative.
On a recent re-read of 'Bloodstone' I found the ending a bit more abrupt than I originally remembered.
Joseph wrote: "And has there ever been any kind of real exploration of the changes between the various editions? I'm hoping to do this analyses next year after I get another chance of going up to Brown and checking out his papers. I know the books were published out of the order he wrote them in so some of the Kane story/myth may have been in place already while he was writing Darkness Weaves. He wrote Bloodstone in 1970 and had begun work on the novel In the Wake of the Night that same year. In the Wake was a Kane novel he was working on at the time of his death.
There is a very good chronology over at the Dark Storm files. Dale Rippke even includes some of the chronological debates. His timeline is what I've been using for the podcast. http://thedarkstormfiles.blogspot.com...
Curious to know what you think of St. Clair. I got The Shadow People a while ago but it’s still sitting on my tbr pile.
Thanks for sharing the article!
Okay, my last post on
I cover 'Wet Magic' and final thoughts. Looking forward to Leguin next month!
https://thedarkcrusade.wordpress.com/...
Another post up about my read of Echoes of Valor including my thoughts on "The Black Stranger"https://thedarkcrusade.wordpress.com/...
