The Book Of Swords - BookWyrm.World

Hardcover, 525 pages

English language

Published 2017 by Bantam.

ISBN:: 978-0-399-59376-5
Goodreads:: 27917260

(1 review)

New epic fantasy in the grand tradition—including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin!

Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction — and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure.

Now, in the Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters — many of them set in their authors’ best-loved worlds. Join today’s finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R.R. Martin, K.J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Ken Liu, C.J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie …

New epic fantasy in the grand tradition—including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin!

Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction — and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure.

Now, in the Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters — many of them set in their authors’ best-loved worlds. Join today’s finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R.R. Martin, K.J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Ken Liu, C.J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do, featuring a stunning assortment of fearless swordsmen and warrior women who face down danger and death at every turn with courage, cunning, and cold steel.

Contents: - The Best Man Wins by K.J. Parker - Her Father’s Sword by Robin Hobb - The Hidden Girl by Ken Liu - The Sword of Destiny by Matthew Hughes - "I Am a Handsome Man", Said Apollo Crow by Kate Elliott - The Triumph of Virtue by Walter Jon Williams - The Mocking Tower by Daniel Abraham - Hrunting by C.J. Cherryh - A Long, Cold Trail by Garth Nix - When I Was a Highwayman by Ellen Kushner - The Smoke of Gold Is Glory by Scott Lynch - The Colgrid Conundrum by Rich Larson - The King’s Evil by Elizabeth Bear - Waterfalling by Lavie Tidhar - The Sword Tyraste by Cecelia Holland - The Sons of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin

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David Scrimshaw reviewed The Book Of Swords by Ken Liu

Review of 'The Book of Swords' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

If you're not going to try a sword and sorcery book, you might as well skip this review and skip the book.

If you're thinking sword and sorcery might be for you, you can read this review, but you should read the book.

If sword and sorcery is your thing, the book is a must-read, no need for you to read this review, but you might as well since if you had a copy, you'd be reading it instead of this and it won't hurt to give you something to anticipate.

Lately, I've been starting one book after another and just not getting into them. I was starting to think there was something wrong with me. But then I started this collection and everything changed. It's full of stories that I just loved.

Going in, I knew there was a Garth Nix story. I was sort of crossing my fingers …

If you're not going to try a sword and sorcery book, you might as well skip this review and skip the book.

If you're thinking sword and sorcery might be for you, you can read this review, but you should read the book.

If sword and sorcery is your thing, the book is a must-read, no need for you to read this review, but you might as well since if you had a copy, you'd be reading it instead of this and it won't hurt to give you something to anticipate.

Lately, I've been starting one book after another and just not getting into them. I was starting to think there was something wrong with me. But then I started this collection and everything changed. It's full of stories that I just loved.

Going in, I knew there was a Garth Nix story. I was sort of crossing my fingers that it would be a story about Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz. And it was!

For almost every author in the collection that I was unfamiliar with, I now have a book on reserve at the library.

The only story that I didn't get into was the George R. R. Martin story, which is a recounting of ancient Westeros history that talks about what happened but doesn't really get into what's going on in people's minds.