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The Return of the Sword: An Anthology of Heroic Adventure


August 9th, 2008  Posted by Greg Hersom

The Return of the Sword: An Anthology of Heroic Adventure

…I highly recommend The Return of the Sword to anyone who appreciates a straight-forward adventurous tale, and I applaud the effort to present some quality sword & sorcery tales in a market where the sub-genre seems all but forgotten. I hope more publishers will follow suit and give us more new S & S books.  Read the rest.

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6 Responses to “The Return of the Sword: An Anthology of Heroic Adventure”

  1. Matt’s Bookosphere 8/10/08 « Enter the Octopus

    [...] Review: “The Return of the Sword: An Anthology of Heroic Fiction” [...]

  2. Mini-interview: Robert Rhodes |

    [...] “…an easy 5 stars and then some. In fact, I’d buy this book for those [5-star] stories alone…” ~ Greg Hersom [...]

  3. An Interview With Rob Rhodes | FanLit News (The blog for the FantasyLiterature.net website)

    [...] story “To Be a Man”. You can read Greg’s review of Return of the Sword here. This interview is reprinted here with Mr Waltz’s [...]

  4. Mini-interview: Jason M. Waltz |

    [...] “Jason M. Waltz did a great job of picking out the stories to use for Return of the Sword. Except for only one or two stories (even the ones that weren’t particularly something to my personal taste) I found these to be very well and interestingly written…I highly recommend Return of the Sword to anyone who appreciates a straight-forward adventurous tale, and I applaud the effort to present some quality sword & sorcery tales in a market where the sub-genre seems all but forgotten.” ~ Greg Hersom, Fantasy Literature.net [...]

  5. An Interview With Robert Rhodes | Fantasy Literature's Fantasy Book Reviews

    [...] story “To Be a Man”. You can read Greg’s review of Return of the Sword here. This interview is reprinted here with Mr Waltz’s [...]

  6. Rogue Blades (RBE)

    Hey Greg – my email’s been on the blink, so in case you didn’t get mine or you responded and I didn’t get yours, you interested in reviewing the 2nd RBE heroic adventure anthology, Rage of the Behemoth?

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