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SwordPlay
Thirteen Tales of Sword & Sorcery!Thirteen Tales of Sword & Sorcery!
Mixing classic with unconventional approaches, SWORDPLAY collects into a single volume a group of tales like you've never experienced, while retaining a familiar feel all fans of the genre will recognize.
Lending their considerable talents toward tales of blades, battles, necromancers, sorceresses and lethal creatures, thirteen writers celebrate the genre while enhancing and expanding the range and scope of Sword & Sorcery.
Featuring original tales
CLIFF BIGGERS- DAN BRERETON- CULLEN BUNN- MICHAEL BURKE- RICHARD DANSKY- CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN- STEVEN GRANT- TONIA LAIRD- BRACKEN MACLEOD- JAMES A. MOORE- ALLISON PANG- LINDA ROBERTSON REINHARDT- CHARLES R. RUTLEDGE
Mixing classic with unconventional approaches, SWORDPLAY collects into a single volume a group of tales like you've never experienced, while retaining a familiar feel all fans of the genre will recognize.
Lending their considerable talents toward tales of blades, battles, necromancers, sorceresses and lethal creatures, thirteen writers celebrate the genre while enhancing and expanding the range and scope of Sword & Sorcery.
Featuring original tales
CLIFF BIGGERS- DAN BRERETON- CULLEN BUNN- MICHAEL BURKE- RICHARD DANSKY- CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN- STEVEN GRANT- TONIA LAIRD- BRACKEN MACLEOD- JAMES A. MOORE- ALLISON PANG- LINDA ROBERTSON REINHARDT- CHARLES R. RUTLEDGE
287 pages, Paperback
Published July 14, 2023
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James Moore
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March 25, 2026
This is a decent collection of Sword and Sorcery tales. I think it would have garnered more attention had it been released 5 or so years earlier but at the time in 2023 there was a lot of small press Sword and Sorcery out there. Part of what took me to long to get to reading it.
A couple stories really stood out for me.
Barbarian Gothic which was an interesting exploration of a forgotten literary style with an S&S twist. Justified which was very original and different than your typical S&S yarn. Finally, Michael Burke’s The Vision of the Crimson Eye which was pound for pound the best traditional Sword and Sorcery story in the collection. I’m always up for more Ahanu Foxcloud tales.
All in all it’s a decent package but definitely a deep cut for genre diehards.
A couple stories really stood out for me.
Barbarian Gothic which was an interesting exploration of a forgotten literary style with an S&S twist. Justified which was very original and different than your typical S&S yarn. Finally, Michael Burke’s The Vision of the Crimson Eye which was pound for pound the best traditional Sword and Sorcery story in the collection. I’m always up for more Ahanu Foxcloud tales.
All in all it’s a decent package but definitely a deep cut for genre diehards.
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