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Son of the Black Sword is a 2015 epic fantasy novel by Larry Correia and published by Baen Books. It is the first book in the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series. It was followed by House of Assassins in 2019. It won Best Fantasy Novel at the 2016 Dragon Awards, was nominated for a 2015 AML Award and the 2016 Gemmell Legend Award.
Publishers Weekly gave House of Assassins a starred review, stating that it had "brisk fight scenes, lively characters, and plenty of black humor" while calling the series "a real pleasure". [1] It won Best Fantasy Novel at the 2019 Dragon Awards, and was a finalist for the 2019 Whitney Awards in the speculative fiction category. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Imaro is a sword and sorcery novel written by Charles R. Saunders, and published by DAW Books in 1981. It may have been one of the first forays into the sword and sorcery genre by a black author. [1] Saunders wrote and had published two more books in the series, The Quest for Cush in 1984 and The Trail of Bohu in 1985. [2]
The Book of Swords series is also linked to the Empire of the East series, which is set in the same universe and presents the backstory to the series. [3] The first three works in the Empire of the East series predate the Book of Swords series (The Broken Lands (1968), The Black Mountains (1971), and Changeling Earth (1973), also titled Ardneh's World), with the fourth Empire of the East book ...
Larry Correia (/ k ə ˈ r iː. ə /; [1] born 1977) is an American fantasy and science fiction writer, known for his Monster Hunter International, Grimnoir Chronicles, and Saga of the Forgotten Warrior series. He has authored or co-authored over 30 novels, has over 50 published short works, two collections of stories, and has co-edited four ...
The Chronicles of Prydain is a pentalogy of children's high fantasy Bildungsroman novels written by American author Lloyd Alexander and published by Henry Holt and Company.The series includes: The Book of Three (1964), The Black Cauldron (1965), The Castle of Llyr (1966), Taran Wanderer (1967), and The High King (1968).
The chapters of Japanese manga series Übel Blatt, written and illustrated by Etorouji Shiono, were serialized in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine. They were collected in 24 tankōbon volumes. Yen Press has licensed the series for release in North America, and released the first 2-in-1 omnibus on October 28, 2014. [1] [2] [a]
Shannara / ˈ ʃ æ n ə r ə / [1] is a series of high fantasy [2] novels written by Terry Brooks, beginning with The Sword of Shannara in 1977 and concluding with The Last Druid which was released in October 2020; there is also a prequel, First King of Shannara.