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The links to the authors social media and the Kickstarter can be found here: The Kickstarter: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/brackenbooks/double-edge-sword-sorcery DARIEL R.A. QUIOGUE: swashbucklingplanets.wordpress.com/ instagram.com/fuguchrome400/ BRYN HAMMOND: amgalant.com/ bsky.app/profile/brynhammond.bsky.social

Good talk. Makes me want to write.

Great chat, I love the book - nearly finished and I don't want it too. Plenty of great new writers on the pages of Book of Blades 1 & 2 as well.

I'm loving the book!

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I agree on the sorcery part particularly. In Howard magic are the DARK arts. I still remember in The Scarlet Citadel where Pelias said that the plant that had been drinking his soul had "roots that go down to hell" and that Conan's sword would have been useless against what was clinging to the roots. That should give you some shudders and an idea of how dark the dark magic Conan is. Its pacts with otherworldly entities and ritual appeals to evil gods fueled by the blood of the innocent. Its full of horror and unnatural beings. Even when its used for "good" as in N'Longa in Hills of the Dead (Solomon Kane tale) its still unnatural and makes your skin crawl and your stomach turn. Its something that is that should not be.

Glad I found this. Well done 👍

Very cool. I always think of every game of Stellaris as the greatest Si-Fi story ever told.

Wow. Leiber was actually really good at reading his stories out loud. Few authors pull that off.

Leiber is nowhere near Howard prose wise. He is witty and urbane but not a stylist on Howards level. No one except Tolkien has better prose in Fantasy.

Nice interview! (an aside: I love the Black Sword Hack it's my favorite ttrpg of the OSR!)

They Cybrarian makes some AWESOME Solomon Kane and Conan audiobook adaptations check him out

Have not finished the book but packed with info.

Great interview, and I loved this book. Definitely give it a read. Not just a catalogue of S&S books, but a real exploration of the themes and history. Loved it.

So progressive sword and sorcery for modern readers? If so, count me out. Progressives destroy everything. When I hear that white guys make up most of the readers but we want to make it more inclusive, I want to vomit. Sword and sorcery DEI. I'll never buy that magazine. Woke rubbish.

Really cool painting on your wall. Who’s the artist, where’s it from?

Its historical reality to a large extent with ancient aliens and "mytgical"(real) creatures like giants and geneticsl experiments

Almost 25 years ago I dumped most of my sci-fi and fantasy and changed focus almost completely to non-fiction; several years ago I culled out a bit more. Robert E. Howard is the only one of my favorite writers of either genre that I am still collecting and one day I will have every one of his stories.

I like to listen to these kinds of videos whilst I paint... I listened to this one twice! Really enjoyed it, thank you both.

It means skinny old evil sorverers vs youthful bodybuilder strongmen

For me it was lovercraft, then Conan, other REH characters, then Elric, then Clark Ashton Smith. Good to know Fritz Lieber should be next on my list

Who is the artist of the painting that starts at 8 minutes? Looks like the comic book Red Sonja at the bottom.

Welcome back! Are you going to cover Wolf's Head and Pigeons from Hell?

Such a good talk

There is a slight audio glitch that I cannot replace on RUclips. Just my rotten luck it seems :/ I can, however, replace the audio on Spotify which I have now done, you can listen to it here: open.spotify.com/episode/74bu5ehi4ziICkSOwqYKPn

Great work man! Keep it up

thats my goat

S&S is probably my favorite genre of fantasy.

Noice

I'm not sure I would qualify "pulp fiction" as "mainstream media" when referencing any media pre 1994. Great vid 👍

Dude's talking about Sword and Sorcery with a Doom shirt one, you absolutely have my attention!

Huh, after seeing Caslte of the Undead I'm thinking it'd be cool if Solomon Kane was an ancestor to Prof. Abraham van Helsing, and that's why the Prof. knew about vampires and monsters. Would be cool, like the descendant of one of Dracula's greatest foes returns to finish what his ancestor could not.

I recommend Hillbilly by Eric Powell.

Great interview. I never read the Lieber books and I’m now definitely going to.

Very interesting. I wonder what country REH had as Cimmeria. Can you tell from a map overlay?

Got yourself a new follower,great interview.Also love the usage of Pictures you chose. Looking forward to the other vids . Best regards

This is fantastic, thank you for sharing this excellent and informative interview. Brian Murphy is so good in interviews and you did a wonderful job with this one.

Great episode! That said...no mention of Merritt? REH called him "great". ALL of the Weird Tales S&S authors--REH, Smith, Moore and Kuttner-- were Merritt fans. More modern authors like Moorcock and Wagner were/are Merritt fans. Merritt novels like THE SHIP OF ISHTAR and DWELLERS IN THE MIRAGE are very much S&S-adjacent. Good call-out on Boris' 'calm' faces!

What a great movie...but I only have one question,why did frank killed the McBains?

Good interview. Can't wait to read the new Elric story. Waiting patiently to be able to buy magazine and I hope there is more for the future.

A positive representation of traditional Protestant Christian morality? Impossible…

And for the people in the back - a focus on inclusivity is not contradictory to having great stories. An editor will always have to make choices, regarding 'the best stories' - there may be two great stories which are too similar, or an awesome story which doesn't fit the theme. To make it an S&S anthology is already making a choice, as it excludes absolutely awesome stories which are not S&S This collection is interesting for a huge potential audience who want to see stories with other protagonists than the over-represented straight white guy. And that audience can indeed include older, straight, white guys - like myself.

It's really well edited! I appreciate all the graphics you worked in, as well as the structure you gave the interview. Definitely not one of those "Might as well be a podcast" RUclips interviews.

It would be really cool if we got a Solomon Kane video game. I'm imagining that the gameplay would be a lot like the Witcher, and the combat would be like from Assassin's Creed: Unity.

Thank you Jan! Nice job!

Great panel!

Sweet job, Jan! Thanks so much for hosting this!

I loved the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser miniseries from Epic comics. That was what first introduced me to Fritz Lieber. Great art by Mike Mignola.

Solomon Kane! The puritanical heathen slayer whom swore to destroy evil in all it's forms, is one of the greatest characters ever written! Read it pagan scum!

Nice! Brian's a great guy and an excellent author on the subject. I've published him once, and he'll have another article in an upcoming issue of my S&S magazine, for good reason.