Bryn’s Comments (group member since Apr 24, 2022)

Bryn’s comments from the Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" group.

Dariel wrote: "Mary wrote: "The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History by Tonio Andrade"

How are you liking it? I've been interested..."

A related title, Dariel, which I got affordably on Kindle and can highly recommend, is Peter Lorge's The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb.

I'm on a bit of a Moorcock binge: now reading Fortress of the Pearl, right after Stormbringer. Appreciating Later Elric.

I've only read the Riddle-Master trilogy but agree about McKillip's writing. Witty, taut and wonderful.

I'm reading Gemma Files' collection The Worm in Every Heart, and cutting its horror with David C Smith's epic fantasy The West Is Dying: The Fall of the First World, Book One: Volume 1. I like the writing in both!

I'm on the last story of Queer Blades: An Anthology of LGBTQIA2+ Adventure Fantasy. I reckon four stars. Review to follow shortly!

I read the short, intense Sometime Lofty Towers by David C. Smith over a couple of nights.
My five-star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just finished a re-visit of the anthologies Amazons! and Amazons II. I agreed with young me on my stand-out stories: a Dossouye story by Charles R. Saunders and a Chimquar story by Janrae Frank. So now I am opening up a collection of the Chimquar tales, In the Darkness, Hunting
(love the cover)