I'm pleased to hear there is a Elric film being made, I need some straight hack-n-slash after that 9-hr mess known as the Lord of the Rings, which subsequently, with the Harry Potter books has filled the stores with books the size of bricks (i.e. Robert Jordon, George R. R. Martin, etc).
I don't find, neither do I see Sword & Sorcery being written much or filling the shelves of by local bookstore, aside from the Robert E. Howard collections by Wandering Star. The new "Age of Conan" books are alright; just makes me long for Conan more than these would-be follows of Hyborean brutality and adventure. The new Elric's are also alright, but here in the states are hard to get over the counter, I had to purchase mine on Amazon. I have been reduced to used book stores to get by Sword & Sorcery fix, which by the way, Mike's books being the prize after an exhausted search.
This poses a interesting question: where is the genre headed? I'm getting tired of going to Barnes & Nobles to see these Tolkien ripoff (Wheel of Time being no.1 on my shit list, followed by Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Trilogy).
:( I miss Conan, and Elric, Corum and Solomon Kane. . .
I don't find, neither do I see Sword & Sorcery being written much or filling the shelves of by local bookstore, aside from the Robert E. Howard collections by Wandering Star. The new "Age of Conan" books are alright; just makes me long for Conan more than these would-be follows of Hyborean brutality and adventure. The new Elric's are also alright, but here in the states are hard to get over the counter, I had to purchase mine on Amazon. I have been reduced to used book stores to get by Sword & Sorcery fix, which by the way, Mike's books being the prize after an exhausted search.
This poses a interesting question: where is the genre headed? I'm getting tired of going to Barnes & Nobles to see these Tolkien ripoff (Wheel of Time being no.1 on my shit list, followed by Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Trilogy).
:( I miss Conan, and Elric, Corum and Solomon Kane. . .
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