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Gregory D. Mele

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Gregory D. Mele has had a passion for sword & sorcery and historical fiction for most of his life. An early love of dinosaurs led him to dragons, and from dragons…well, the rest should be obvious. If there were swords being swung, he was probably reading it.

While a student at the University of Illinois in the early 1990s, he discovered that there was a vast collection of surviving technical works on fighting with the sword, rapier, lance and axe. Sword in one hand, book in the other, he never looked back. Since the late 90s, his passion has been the reconstruction and preservation of armizare, a martial art developed over 600 years ago by the famed Italian master-at-arms Fiore dei Liberi, via his work with the Chicago Swordplay Guild and Fr
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Average rating: 4.56 · 109 ratings · 34 reviews · 12 distinct works
Tales from the Magician's S...

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Die By the Sword

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Gregory Mele and 20 other people liked Jamie's review of The Revelations of Zang:
The Revelations of Zang by John R. Fultz
"The Revelations of Zang is a tightly connected collection of dark fantasy stories held together by a compelling overarching narrative. Fultz writes with skill and confidence, bringing to life a world steeped in ancient history, arcane sorcery, creati" Read more of this review »
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Although his space opera and BFF gets the most attention, Tchaikovsky is sometimes at his best with his shorter, stand-alone fiction, as this proved by this eco-thriller meets Island of Dr. Moreau with an unreliable narrator.
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A Discourse in Steel by Paul S. Kemp
"Pretty much a modern Ill Met In Lankhmar but thats okay. This trilogy is very much a love letter to classic Sword and Sorcery. There are similarities but it's not a 1 for 1 copy. There are enough differences to make it interesting. Egil and Nix are a" Read more of this review »
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I'm really coming to find that Tchaikovsky is at his best in the novella and short novel, much as I like his longer work more often than not.

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Robert E. Howard
“Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph”
― Robert E. Howard

P.C. Cast
“Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.”
― P.C. Cast, Divine By Mistake

Brian McNaughton
“Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit”
― Brian McNaughton
tags: fear

“The four libertarians who came to New Hampshire had thinner wallets than…other would-be utopians, but they had a new angle they believed would help them move the Free Town Project out of the realm of marijuana-hazed reveries and into reality. Instead of building from scratch, they would harness the power and infrastructure of an existing town—just as a rabies parasite can co-opt the brain of a much larger organism and force it work against its own interests, the libertarians planned to apply just a bit of pressure in such a way that an entire town could be steered toward liberty.”
― Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town

“It's not clear whether, at this point, the Babiarzes fully understood that the libertarians were operating under vampire rules—the invitation to enter, once offered, could not be rescinded.”
― Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town

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