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He was big; I could smell whiskey on his breath. In another life, he would have roared at the Lord’s people and waited for a shepherd boy to come and lay him low. But there weren’t any shepherd boys here today, just me, and I could do
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“What a fabulous kingdom the mind is, and you the emperor of all of it. You can bed the duke's wife and have the duke strangled in your mind. A crippled man can think himself a dancer, and an idiot can fool himself wise. The day a magicker peeks into the thoughts of commoners for some thin-skinned duke or king will be a bad day. Those with callused hands will rise on that day, for a man will only toil in a mine so long as he can dream of sunny fields, and he'll only kneel for a tyrant if he can secretly cut that tyrant's throat in the close theater of his bowed head.”
― The Blacktongue Thief
― The Blacktongue Thief
“God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.”
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“The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has its limits.”
― NPC
― NPC
“By the bounteous bottom of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I'm looking forward to this, Our Kandar!”
― Kandar
― Kandar
“monsters aren’t born, they’re made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw material, we should permit no sentiment to impede us while we rid the world of the terror strewn by the finished work.”
― Angry Lead Skies
― Angry Lead Skies
Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy"
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Readers, authors, illustrators, and editors aggregate here to discuss Sword & Sorcery books and related media (movies, comics, blogposts, etc.). ...more
The Cool Kids' Fantasy Club
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A group to chat about SFF books. Authors and readers welcome. I might post about my books and the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off too. I plan on maki ...more
The Gardner Francis Fox Library
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This group is dedicated to the paperback novels written by Gardner F Fox. Read chapter One of his novels. Please share your thought and reviews of his ...more
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