Jim Reddy

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Arcane Arts and Cold Steel: Writing Sword-and-Sorcery Fiction

by David C. Smith

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The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard: Volume 1

by Robert E. Howard

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Feb 06, 2026 06:17PM

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A Panorama of American Film Noir (1941-1953)

by Raymond Borde

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Jim’s Quotes

“Who wants a library full of books you've already read?”
― Harlan Ellison, Angry Candy

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Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" — 1123 members — last activity 13 hours, 48 min ago
Readers, authors, illustrators, and editors aggregate here to discuss Sword & Sorcery books and related media (movies, comics, blogposts, etc.). ...more

Robert E. Howard Readers — 399 members — last activity Oct 08, 2025 08:35PM
Justly remembered for his thrilling stories about Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard wrote about many other characters and in genres other than Swo ...more

Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction — 6154 members — last activity Mar 01, 2026 01:32PM
The focus of this group is historical fiction set in Ancient and Medieval eras(with some post Medieval), in any geographical location. Preference is g ...more

Multiverse--Michael Moorcock — 147 members — last activity Apr 06, 2025 11:10PM
This is a group to discuss the works of the British Author Michael Moorcock and topics related to his writings and interests. Currently, much of the c ...more

Haruki Murakami Book Group — 5877 members — last activity 5 hours, 9 min ago
Discuss all things Haruki Murakami: novels, short stories, non-fiction, books about HM, translation projects, related music/film, interviews, symbolis ...more

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