Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" discussion

I'm aware of Milton J Davis' sword & soul publishing, Tales from the Magician's Skull, and have very much enjoyed The Red Man and Others. Beyond those, I'm not sure where to look?

What other recent (last ten years, let's say) S&S works have come out?

Not grimdark-that-could-be-called-S&S, like a lot of Joe Abercrombie, I mean books that are in direct dialogue with the classics, while trying to push the genre forward, stuff that is unambiguously S&S.

Lot's of ideas. Just off the cuff, I drop some. I trust others will chime in,

Have you checked out DMR books or Pulp Hero Press or Rogue Blade offerings?
-https://dmrbooks.com/print-books
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_He...
-https://rogue-blades.com/rbf/

Most of the members here are authors, though most of us don't promote ourselves well since that seems taboo. I'll name a couple of folks that I happen to be a big fan of... Charles Gramlich and Joe Bonadonna, David C. Smith too. Scott Oden's Grimnir series is a great Norse inspired S&S series. Ted Rypel's Gonji books infuse Oriental with European S&S.

Anyway, I hope members feel welcome to post a short blurb on their own work.

If you like sorcery over swords (weird but still S&S..that seem to push the genre into horror), you may enjoy Jason Ray Carney's Rakefire or Phil Emery's Shadow Cycles. Or maybe Hypocampus Press (they recently published "A Sorcerer of Atlantis by John Shirley"). I've three novels in my Dyscrasia Fiction series that are on the weirder side of S&S. I just read BJ Swann's Crimson Crown, which was extremely intense, but did push the genre with good storytelling while making me uncomfortable.

Of course, there are magazines (beyond Tales from the Magician's Skull) too:
-Whetstone
-Weirdbook
-S&S Magazine
-Grimdark Magazine
-Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
-Beyond Ceaseless Skies

Various anthologies too...
I'm thinking of a few by Parallel Universe Publications...that have two recent volumes of S&S.
http://paralleluniversepublications.b...

Other ideas, folks?
I know I am missing a lot.

Thanks for the shout-out, SE! So, yeah, I have a couple of books you might find interesting. As SE mentioned, the Grimnir series (A GATHERING OF RAVENS, TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, and the forthcoming THE DOOM OF ODIN) is about the last Orc left in Midgardr -- but don't let that fool you into thinking it's high fantasy: Grimnir is an Orc as might have been conceived of by REH. He's a snarling, profane knot of hatred. In the first book, he's out for revenge on the Dane who slew his brother; in the second, he tangles with Northern Crusaders and berserkir in a race to discover the barrow of a dragon. In the third, he's dead. Yeah, not kidding. It's a romp through the underworld of his people.

The second book I wanted to mention is THE LION OF CAIRO. This was published in 2010, and it's directly inspired by REH's "The Gates of Empire". In it, an Assassin journeys to Fatimid Cairo to offer his services to the young Caliph, to mend an ancient grudge between the Egyptian Caliphs and the Old Man of the Mountain in distant Alamut. There's lots of swordplay, sorcery, and even an appearance from young Salah-ad-Din . . .

I have a story in one of the Parallel Universe anthologies.
Would it be remiss of me to mention my own books?

Martin wrote: "I have a story in one of the Parallel Universe anthologies. Would it be remiss of me to mention my own books?" Please do, Martin!

My Nandor Tales books Exile and Nandor are non-epic fantasy adventure stories where the stakes are high for a small group of characters, but winter won't come if the guys win. Mark Lawrence pronounced Exile to be "sword-swinging, castle climbing, hard drinking fun".

Thanks for the recommendations, everybody! I'm building a list and these are all going on it.

People mentioning their own titles is totally welcome, by the way, as are further recommendations.

Oliver wrote:"People mentioning their own titles is totally welcome, by the way, as are further recommendations."

Thank you for the opportunity. I would like to recommend a two hour short read which I did in fact write. It is a Heroic Fantasy / S&S. Could definitely use some more reviews, but all the reviews so far have been absolutely outstanding. Please do give it a read. It's nearly invisible on Amazon.

If you like Sword and Sorcery then i feel you would enjoy it. Some S&S fans may be put off reading a story in which the protagonist is a gnome. Not a burly, chisel chested Barbarian. A gnome--of all things.


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