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

Here is a complete list of all "The Sacred Band of Stepsons" tales, as written by Janet E. Morris and Chris Morris.

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Anthologies: 2 volumes of Sacred Band Tales. These two anthologies contain all the Sacred Band Tales published anywhere, as of 2012:

Volume 1 of Sacred Band Tales:
Tempus, an expanded "Author's Cut" edition of Tempus (published in 1987 by Baen), this Paradise Publishing edition includes the first five Tempus stories from Thieves' World(R), plus a story (An End to Dreaming) that predated Thieves' World(R), and new material available nowhere else. In strict chronology, it follows Beyond Wizardwall.

Volume 2 of Sacred Band Tales: The Fish the Fighters and the Song-Girl
This second anthology contains all the later Tempus stories published in Thieves' World, plus a new novella from which the volume title takes its name, and additional new interstitial material. In strict chronology, it follows "The Sacred Band" and was published 2012 by Perseid.

Novels:

Beyond novels (trilogy):

#1: Beyond Sanctuary (now available from Perseid in an Author's Cut Edition, with 14K additional text; also claimed by Thieves' World as first "authorized" TW novel.

#2: Beyond The Veil (Author's Cut edition in production with 25K additional text), second of our three authorized TW novels.

#3: Beyond Wizardwall (Author's Cut edition in progress), third of our three authorized TW novels.

Farther Realms (trilogy):

#4: City at the Edge of Time

#5: Tempus Unbound

#6: Storm Seed

21st century Sacred Band of Stepsons novel:

#7: The Sacred Band

If someone wants to read these in purely chronological order, intermixing the anthologies with the novels, we suggest this order:

Beyond Sanctuary
Beyond the Veil
Beyond Wizardwall
Tempus (with his right-side companion Niko)
City at the Edge of Time
Tempus Unbound
Storm Seed
The Sacred Band
The Fish the Fighters and the Song-Girl

Note: We have had people who started with the Sacred Band, then read Fish/Fighters, then went back and started with the Beyond novels, so there is no strict required order: the stories and novels all stand well enough on their own for most people. Because the two anthologies have interstital new material that wraps each old TW story as if they were flashbacks, my chronology for rading these books is basically the internal chronology of writing them.

Thanks for this opportunity to clarify (if indeed I have done so). We are so happy with The Sacred Band and Fish/Fighters, which chronologically follows it directly, that we have several more volumes planned.

-Janet E. Morris

Absolutely wonderful stories.

Charles, thanks so very much for saying so.

Perklis, thanks again for disambiguating these books.

Periklis: I am the Muse of Hell (member of the Earthiest Swords & Sorcery group) and Janet Morris' editorial assistant, proofreader, copy-editor, all-round Girl Friday and she wanted me to get in touch to let you know that I have all the information on the books that have been released since 2010. We are in the process of releasing the rest of the "Beyond" series and Janet's "I, the Sun" a historical novel about the king of the Hittites. We are starting to release stories in audible form and as soon as they are available I can send you the links to those. The first three are going to be available on Amazon and Audible.com only, because we released them as KDP only shorts. Let me know what you need. Any help we can get on spreading the word around is gratefully accepted since it is pretty much just Janet and me as far as the publishing goes!

Sarah wrote: "Periklis: I am the Muse of Hell (member of the Earthiest Swords & Sorcery group) and Janet Morris' editorial assistant, proofreader, copy-editor, all-round Girl Friday and she wanted me to get in ..."

Hail, Muse. Thanks for all your help. Periklis, Muse is indeed my most valued assistant. Any help you can give her will make me very happy. janet morris

Janet wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Periklis: I am the Muse of Hell (member of the Earthiest Swords & Sorcery group) and Janet Morris' editorial assistant, proofreader, copy-editor, all-round Girl Friday and she wanted..."

You're welcome. I'd be happy to help.

Any chance we can create a page for the Heroes in Hell series?

Bruce, that wuld be great, but Periklis or S.E or someone smart about Goodreads would need to do it....

Periklis wrote: "Janet wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Periklis: I am the Muse of Hell (member of the Earthiest Swords & Sorcery group) and Janet Morris' editorial assistant, proofreader, copy-editor, all-round Girl Friday ..."

Thanks again. Obviously, the gods sent you.

Janet wrote: "Periklis wrote: "Janet wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Periklis: I am the Muse of Hell (member of the Earthiest Swords & Sorcery group) and Janet Morris' editorial assistant, proofreader, copy-editor, all-r..."

Thank you for your kind words. I'm trying to do everything I can to help, as a reader/fan.

"Any chance we can create a page for the Heroes in Hell series?"

I'm, already in contact with the ever-helpful Muse of Hell and considering if the Perseid Press books in the series should be catalogued in the same, already existenting, Series Listing. So far I've made minor adjustments to the listings of the following titles:

Lawyers in Hell
Bridge Over Hell
Interview with the Devil
Rogues in Hell

Any group author that needs help in any similar matter, I'd be happy to assist.

Thanks again, Periklis. j