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Hegemonian
An epic sword and sorcery fantasy from the author of Saint Monolith and Das Vampir. A savage but noble warrior, a weapon of the gods, and amazing adventures in an ancient world filled with monsters and Minotaurs, witches and sorcerers, and tyrannical kings. From the author; "I grew up, and still am, a huge Robert E Howard fan. Being able to publish my own Sword and Sorcery tale and carry on that tradition, is something I am extremely proud of. With great respect, I hope I did the genre justice. I hope readers will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. This will be an ongoing series, and there's much more to come. www.TomReinhart.com
249 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 19, 2014
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Tom Reinhart
9 books15 followersTom Reinhart is a unique and exciting author. Born in New York, he grew up a fan of comic books, Robert E Howard, and guitar playing. He's down to earth, easily approachable, loves his readers and hanging out with them. His writing is fast paced, brutally honest, and his books tend to take off with an exciting start right from page one. His writing is powerful, often almost poetic, and easily instills vibrant imagery in a reader's mind through words that are perfectly weaved together. You don't just read a Tom Reinhart story, you live and feel it.
His unique writing style can be found in these great books;
The 8th Day, an apocalyptic thriller set against a biblical backdrop. What if Judgment Day really came? "All their lives people had prayed to God, prayed for a sign, prayed for angels to intervene in their lives. They finally got what they wanted, but it wasn't the answer they were hoping for. Now the dead no longer sleep, the living cannot die, and the world has become Hell on earth." A powerful unflinching thriller that gives you a ringside seat to the end of the world.
The Mason Stone series, a vigilante thriller, a love story, and an interesting introspective into the darker side of the human mind. Mason Stone is a police officer with a unique outlook on the world. Jaded, cynical, and fed up with the evil of the world, he takes the law into his own hands. Not your typical vigilante tale, Tom Reinhart's deep and intense writing style takes the reader down a dark path that is all at once frightening and enlightening, and will have you questioning the reality of the society around you, and cheering for a killer.
Hegemonian, a Robert E Howard inspired Sword and Sorcery adventure. It's packed full with everything Sword and Sorcery fans love, Minotaurs and monsters, witches and sorcerers, and non-stop adventure. "Hegemonian harkens back to the golden days of epic pulp fiction, the era that spawned what today we call "sword and sorcery" fantasy. Clearly, author Tom Reinhart has based his own epic hero, Lucan, upon Robert Howard's Conan the Cimmerian, and like Conan Lucan is a northern barbarian who leaves his savage homeland in search of adventure. Though Reinhart's inspirations are obvious, he manages to make Lucan a distinct character with his own personality, and if Hegemonian is in some ways a Howard pastiche, it is far superior to most of its cousins in that field. To say that Reinhart's novel is action-packed is an understatement, as he subjects Lucan to one deadly encounter after another with undead warriors, giant spiders, and wicked enchantresses. And all that's even before he reaches the big city, with all its "civilized" politics, backstabbing intrigue, and a war in the offing! Exciting and imaginative, Hegemonian is an amazing literary epic that all fans of classic sword and sorcery should read with relish.
Das Vampir, a series of short stories that are horror tales designed to make vampires scary again. "Das Vampir is an excellent and rather retro treatment of the vampire legend that restores the eponymous monster to its horrifying roots. Rich, dark, and invested with a ruthless malevolence from the get go, author Tom Reinhart instills his short story with more horrific charm than any number of longer works. The human characters are quickly drawn but surprisingly well developed, and when the undead monster from the night descends upon them the suspense is nearly unbearable. A well-wrought tale that fans of real vampires--that is, the kind that don't sparkle--should uniformly treasure."
From the author ~ "It's my hope that readers will enjoy reading my books as much as I have enjoyed writing them. There's a lot more coming. I consider my readers to be my friends, and I am their biggest fan. Come hang out with us at www.TomReinhart.com and social media sites everywhere."
His unique writing style can be found in these great books;
The 8th Day, an apocalyptic thriller set against a biblical backdrop. What if Judgment Day really came? "All their lives people had prayed to God, prayed for a sign, prayed for angels to intervene in their lives. They finally got what they wanted, but it wasn't the answer they were hoping for. Now the dead no longer sleep, the living cannot die, and the world has become Hell on earth." A powerful unflinching thriller that gives you a ringside seat to the end of the world.
The Mason Stone series, a vigilante thriller, a love story, and an interesting introspective into the darker side of the human mind. Mason Stone is a police officer with a unique outlook on the world. Jaded, cynical, and fed up with the evil of the world, he takes the law into his own hands. Not your typical vigilante tale, Tom Reinhart's deep and intense writing style takes the reader down a dark path that is all at once frightening and enlightening, and will have you questioning the reality of the society around you, and cheering for a killer.
Hegemonian, a Robert E Howard inspired Sword and Sorcery adventure. It's packed full with everything Sword and Sorcery fans love, Minotaurs and monsters, witches and sorcerers, and non-stop adventure. "Hegemonian harkens back to the golden days of epic pulp fiction, the era that spawned what today we call "sword and sorcery" fantasy. Clearly, author Tom Reinhart has based his own epic hero, Lucan, upon Robert Howard's Conan the Cimmerian, and like Conan Lucan is a northern barbarian who leaves his savage homeland in search of adventure. Though Reinhart's inspirations are obvious, he manages to make Lucan a distinct character with his own personality, and if Hegemonian is in some ways a Howard pastiche, it is far superior to most of its cousins in that field. To say that Reinhart's novel is action-packed is an understatement, as he subjects Lucan to one deadly encounter after another with undead warriors, giant spiders, and wicked enchantresses. And all that's even before he reaches the big city, with all its "civilized" politics, backstabbing intrigue, and a war in the offing! Exciting and imaginative, Hegemonian is an amazing literary epic that all fans of classic sword and sorcery should read with relish.
Das Vampir, a series of short stories that are horror tales designed to make vampires scary again. "Das Vampir is an excellent and rather retro treatment of the vampire legend that restores the eponymous monster to its horrifying roots. Rich, dark, and invested with a ruthless malevolence from the get go, author Tom Reinhart instills his short story with more horrific charm than any number of longer works. The human characters are quickly drawn but surprisingly well developed, and when the undead monster from the night descends upon them the suspense is nearly unbearable. A well-wrought tale that fans of real vampires--that is, the kind that don't sparkle--should uniformly treasure."
From the author ~ "It's my hope that readers will enjoy reading my books as much as I have enjoyed writing them. There's a lot more coming. I consider my readers to be my friends, and I am their biggest fan. Come hang out with us at www.TomReinhart.com and social media sites everywhere."
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April 29, 2014
Yarrh! If it isn't another of them sword and slash and cut and run epic fantasies.....
Now this really is up my street. I love epically laden stories....Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, The Iron Fey series.....too many to mention really.
Hegemonian, by Tom Reinhart, was one of two books I won in a giveaway. Now, in approaching my own take on the genre with Stormling, I had the same fears as Tom, and still do, in that 'would I do the genre justice'.
It's a big worry. If you are writing a book that could be shelved alongside JRR Tolkien's works, dang....you better be good.
So where does Tom's book stack up?
I'll admit that the last fantasy I read of this kind was Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind and....I couldn't finish it, friends. I really tried to like it, but it fell on its face, I am sorry to say.
From the off, Tom gets us into the action straight away. There's a view that maybe you have to world build from the off, and of course, you can. But our hero, Lucan, is a fighter, a warrior, a savage, a nobleman. And does he know how to use a sword.
The initial chapters feature bloody encounters which were a little strong for me (given I wrote a horror...hello pot, hello kettle!!) but it is in the context of the story. We cannot expect Lucan to wander the lands without anything happening. It's clear that this book is not the total story, and that there is more to come. Good...because this story uses the fantasy genre to its full strength, mixing in the kind of creatures I would struggle to detail...like minotaurs, for instance!
Tom's writing is easy to follow but I don't mean that in a demeaning way. This is an author who has a handle on his subject, and I commend him for writing different book genres in this, also Das Vampyr (go team fang!) and Saint Monolith (which I am currently reading).
Naturally, we can't cheer for Lucan unless he has a total nutjob to face off against, and in Vargas, we have our man.
What happens in the end? Does Lucan win, and what does he do then? Sit on the spoils of his victory? Or seek more adventures. Yaarrrh...I'm your huckleberry....let's go on another adventure then.
This is a great tale, and I think I'd give it the full five stars if not for the bloody detail in the book. I get it...it's in context, but I think younger readers might balk at reading this because of the gore, which would be a shame, as it is a rip roaring fantasy adventure.
Great stuff from Tom Reinhart!
Now this really is up my street. I love epically laden stories....Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, The Iron Fey series.....too many to mention really.
Hegemonian, by Tom Reinhart, was one of two books I won in a giveaway. Now, in approaching my own take on the genre with Stormling, I had the same fears as Tom, and still do, in that 'would I do the genre justice'.
It's a big worry. If you are writing a book that could be shelved alongside JRR Tolkien's works, dang....you better be good.
So where does Tom's book stack up?
I'll admit that the last fantasy I read of this kind was Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind and....I couldn't finish it, friends. I really tried to like it, but it fell on its face, I am sorry to say.
From the off, Tom gets us into the action straight away. There's a view that maybe you have to world build from the off, and of course, you can. But our hero, Lucan, is a fighter, a warrior, a savage, a nobleman. And does he know how to use a sword.
The initial chapters feature bloody encounters which were a little strong for me (given I wrote a horror...hello pot, hello kettle!!) but it is in the context of the story. We cannot expect Lucan to wander the lands without anything happening. It's clear that this book is not the total story, and that there is more to come. Good...because this story uses the fantasy genre to its full strength, mixing in the kind of creatures I would struggle to detail...like minotaurs, for instance!
Tom's writing is easy to follow but I don't mean that in a demeaning way. This is an author who has a handle on his subject, and I commend him for writing different book genres in this, also Das Vampyr (go team fang!) and Saint Monolith (which I am currently reading).
Naturally, we can't cheer for Lucan unless he has a total nutjob to face off against, and in Vargas, we have our man.
What happens in the end? Does Lucan win, and what does he do then? Sit on the spoils of his victory? Or seek more adventures. Yaarrrh...I'm your huckleberry....let's go on another adventure then.
This is a great tale, and I think I'd give it the full five stars if not for the bloody detail in the book. I get it...it's in context, but I think younger readers might balk at reading this because of the gore, which would be a shame, as it is a rip roaring fantasy adventure.
Great stuff from Tom Reinhart!
July 22, 2019
HEGEMONIAN harkens back to the golden days of epic pulp fiction, the era that spawned what today we call "sword and sorcery" fantasy. Clearly, author Tom Reinhart has based his own epic hero, Lucan, upon Robert Howard's Conan the Cimmerian, and like Conan Lucan is a northern barbarian who leaves his savage homeland in search of adventure. Though Reinhart's inspirations are obvious, he manages to make Lucan a distinct character with his own personality, and if HEGEMONIAN is in some ways a Howard pastiche, it is far superior to most of its cousins in that field. To say that Reinhart's novel is action-packed is an understatement, as he subjects Lucan to one deadly encounter after another with undead warriors, giant spiders, and wicked enchantresses. And all that's even before he reaches the big city, with all its "civilized" politics, backstabbing intrigue, and a war in the offing! Exciting and imaginative, HEGEMONIAN is an amazing literary epic that all fans of classic sword and sorcery should read with relish. I certainly did.
May 27, 2014
I tossed up a brief review of this on Amazon, but neglected to follow up on Goodreads. In short, this is an engaging read, true to itself without the current trend of self important inflation. It is engaging, and sits well within it's genre. Like many of the tales of the old days, it's presented more like storytelling, rather then rigidly defined perfect literature. While this may seem a slight lack of polish to some it adds greatly to the feel of this story, making it Worthy to stand within the fold of the many under the grace of Weird Tales and such back in the day. Good stuff I look forward to more.
February 16, 2014
I really loved Saint Monolith, but I loved this one even more! I’ve always been a fan of these types of stories, and this may be my new favorite. Tom has created a great world with interesting characters. At every turn something new and exciting is happening, and I kept not wanting to stop reading. I wanted to know what was going to happen next. It’s got a great ending, and I really wished there was more. I want to know where the main character ends up next! I can’t wait for the next book in the series. I want more books from this author.
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