Woohoo!!! Also, love how ya mentioned how Howard based his worldbuilding in history: it’s one of the things I find so fascinating about the Hyborian Age, how it walks the line between fantastical & historical.
I kinda agree with you about Conan. I always enjoy the world-building but the the character itself is mainly a force-of-nature more than a protagonist on a journey.
This is hilarious. I recently received a copy of one of my long time grail games Solomon Kane (so hard to find a reasonably priced copy in Europe..). Well, long story short, I played through Rattle of Bones and loved it, so I started looking into getting the books. As I was browsing books I remembered you had a book channel as well so I jumped over and what do you know, first video I see I get some awesome suggestions. You never fail to deliver! :D
Edith Nesbit also wrote ghost stories. Charles Williams was one of the inklings but I think he perhaps appealed to a different kind of reader than most Tolkien and Lewis fans. I love genre guides so much, I've been having a great time with David Pringle's Ultimate Guide To Science Fiction (Second Edition from 1995), I strongly strongly recommend his 100 Best Novels guides to Science Fiction and Fantasy.
My 2024 project is reading all of the Hugo and Nebula winners. I was surprised at how few I had read. But seeing all these great old fantasy novels are tempting me to stray from my quest.
Schuyler Hernstrom stuff is great, and he is an absolutely awesome dude too! Definitely get his other collection as well, it has some magnificent stories!
wondering what your thoughts are on this anthology published by strange attractor press called Appendix N : The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons. seems like a diverse collection of short stories …
Currently reading Werewolf Of Paris by Guy Endore. Going to follow that with The house of the Wolf by basil Copper (with illustrations by Stephen Fabian).
I found out about the book by looking into Stephen Fabian's art on his website and got interested. So this last Christmas I got a couple of B&N gift cards and ordered the two werewolf books, along the French comics Wika. @@allfictionisfantasy
@@allfictionisfantasy Yes but sooooo long ago I had COMPLETELY forgotten about them!! THE FEMALE MAN was a staple of 70s feminist books, however.... alas, I don't have my copies of those books anymore. Wish I did. I do have her excellent book HOW TO SUPPRESS WOMEN'S WRITING, however. Prob not something up your alley, but great nevertheless. :) Really before its time.
I learn a lot from these roundup videos. Keep em coming
Thanks, friend! :)
Oh cool, I have both 'The Eyes of Sounnu' and 'To Demon's Bound'! I'll definitely jump Hernstrom further up my TBR pile after this glowing review! 😃
Highly recommended!
Woohoo!!!
Also, love how ya mentioned how Howard based his worldbuilding in history: it’s one of the things I find so fascinating about the Hyborian Age, how it walks the line between fantastical & historical.
I kinda agree with you about Conan. I always enjoy the world-building but the the character itself is mainly a force-of-nature more than a protagonist on a journey.
I love your book reviews. Helps me find so many books i've never heard of
Right on! Glad you like them!
Thanks for this video. I immediately went and bought it !
This is hilarious. I recently received a copy of one of my long time grail games Solomon Kane (so hard to find a reasonably priced copy in Europe..). Well, long story short, I played through Rattle of Bones and loved it, so I started looking into getting the books. As I was browsing books I remembered you had a book channel as well so I jumped over and what do you know, first video I see I get some awesome suggestions. You never fail to deliver! :D
Edith Nesbit also wrote ghost stories. Charles Williams was one of the inklings but I think he perhaps appealed to a different kind of reader than most Tolkien and Lewis fans. I love genre guides so much, I've been having a great time with David Pringle's Ultimate Guide To Science Fiction (Second Edition from 1995), I strongly strongly recommend his 100 Best Novels guides to Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Right on, thanks!
My 2024 project is reading all of the Hugo and Nebula winners. I was surprised at how few I had read.
But seeing all these great old fantasy novels are tempting me to stray from my quest.
I read most of the Hugo award winters in 2010 up until the early 90s or so. I recommend it.
I’m currently reading The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge. I’m really digging it. And I’m listening to the first book in the Uplift Saga, Sundiver.
Schuyler Hernstrom stuff is great, and he is an absolutely awesome dude too! Definitely get his other collection as well, it has some magnificent stories!
My buddy just picked up the other collection. I'm sure I'll get to it eventually. :)
wondering what your thoughts are on this anthology published by strange attractor press called Appendix N :
The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons. seems like a diverse collection of short stories …
I've read a lot of the stories in that, and they're mostly good. Looks like a very solid anthology. Don't think you could go wrong with it.
@@allfictionisfantasythank you
Currently reading Werewolf Of Paris by Guy Endore. Going to follow that with The house of the Wolf by basil Copper (with illustrations by Stephen Fabian).
Basil Copper is a blind spot for me. I have a couple collections, but still haven't read them.
I found out about the book by looking into Stephen Fabian's art on his website and got interested. So this last Christmas I got a couple of B&N gift cards and ordered the two werewolf books, along the French comics Wika. @@allfictionisfantasy
Fabian - he was the house artists for Arkham House, right?
Love the Joanna Russ shout out!
Nesbit has been cited by JK Rowling as an influence which is how I came to seek Five Children out.
After I made this video I went and looked Nesbit up, and I said to myself “looks like Harry Potter. “ :)
@@allfictionisfantasyGuess she managed to really do something with it somewhat transformative of the original :)
Have you read Russ's fantasy series? I'm really looking forward to it!
@@allfictionisfantasy Yes but sooooo long ago I had COMPLETELY forgotten about them!! THE FEMALE MAN was a staple of 70s feminist books, however.... alas, I don't have my copies of those books anymore. Wish I did. I do have her excellent book HOW TO SUPPRESS WOMEN'S WRITING, however. Prob not something up your alley, but great nevertheless. :) Really before its time.
I've read The Female Man, and And Chaos Died, and liked them both. How to Suppress Women's Writing sounds great, and I need to get that.
RIP to Brian Lumley. When are you going to continue with Necroscope?
Not sure. But I will be reading some other Lumley soon! His mythos stuff.
Didnt see any Clark Ashton Smith love in 1982?
I did not know about him in 1982. I was only 7 years old. LOL.
I haven't read every single REH character but of the ones I have, I think most of the minor stars are more fun than Conan.