The Sword & Sorcery Saga - Part One
If anyone wants to read along with me on this Sword & Sorcery quest, please do! The first three books I'll be covering in detail will be three classic anthologies edited by L. Sprague de Camp.
They are:
Swords & Sorcery, published by Pyramid Books in 1963,
The Spell of Seven, published by Pyramid Books in 1965; and
Warlocks and Warriors, published by Berkley Medallion Books in 1970.
If you were to read only three S&S books, you would probably have a hard time finding three better books. These three anthologies contain some absolute classics of the genre, with stories by:
Poul Anderson
HP Lovecraft
Clark Ashton Smith
Robert E. Howard
Fritz Lieber
Lord Dunsany
C.L. Moore
Jack Vance
Henry Kuttner, and others.
The first two mentioned have amazing covers and interior illustrations by Virgil Finlay.
Comments (9)
Just finished the third of these books; what a wonderful journey, allowing me also to read authors I had always intended to. Very much looking forward to the coming video as well the next books to obtain and read for the series.
What stories stood out for you?
Grabbed the first two! The third one is a bit more pricey to get in the UK. Since when did shipping a single book from the US cost £20.... ??
When? When Trump and DeJoy started meddling with the USPTO. It's a complete disaster. Prices sky rocketing, things taking FOREVER to get delivered. It's a total mess.
How's this going down? Read the whole book and then you'll have a discussion video on YouTube about it?
Nothing official like that. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up about the first books I’ll be reading in case you wanted to read them before I posted my review. We could possibly plan some discussion if it works out!
I've gotten lazy and not been reading much recently. These sound like my cup of tea if they're short story collections. Should inspire me to get back into it!
Love where you are going with this video series. This inspires me a lot.
Completely game for this; they're on their way. Looking forward to the series.