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Title: Knight of the Realm Author: Anthony Reynolds Genre: Warhammer/Action Fantasy Year: 2009 A sequel to last year’s Knight Errant, Anthony Reynolds’ Knight of the Realm continues the story of the young Bretonnian knight Calard and his adventures in the grim world of Warhammer. If you are not familiar with the Warhammer setting – a [...]
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Title: The Sorcerer’s Plague Author: David B. Coe Genre: High Fantasy Year: 2007 The Sorcerer’s Plague from David B. Coe is the first book in a planned trilogy entitled The Blood of the Southlands, which takes place in a different section of a world already established in Coe’s previous series, The Winds of the Forelands. [...]
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Title: Knight Errant Author: Anthony Reynolds Genre: Warhammer/Action Fantasy Year: 2008 Every race or culture in Warhammer has fairly clear antecedents — Dark Elves are reminiscent of Moorcock’s Melnibonéans, Orcs and Goblins have their ultimate roots in Tolkien, and human societies like the Norsca and Kislivites have obvious historical counterparts. But it’s almost odd that [...]
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Title: Planet Hulk Author: Greg Pak Genre: Sword & Planet/Superhero Year: 2008 I’m not what you would call a comics guy — I don’t have a set of first editions in acid-free bags in the closet, I couldn’t tell you who the Fantastic Four are, or even distinguish between Marvel and DC (though I’m pretty [...]
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Title: The White Raven Author: Robert Low Genre: Historical Year: 2009 The White Raven begins some five years after the close of The Wolf Sea, a book that saw the Oathsworn, a darkly fated and Odin-oathed band of hard-bitten Norsemen, pursuing a mad monk, an ancient runesword, and rumors of enslaved brethren from the mazy [...]
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Title: Daemon World Author: Ben Counter Genre: Dark Fantasy/SF Year: 2003 The world of Warhammer 40,000 takes ‘dark’ to a whole new level, with a constellation of warring races in various shades of gray (for example, the ‘good guys’ of the Imperium have no qualms about eradicating entire planets within their own empire), a bleak, [...]
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