October 8, 2021

Is Sword and Sorcery dead?

BOOKS

Looking for a good book to read? Something that is escapism and takes you away from the current world which is all "Global Pandemic" and "Global Warming"?

Well, good news... We have a solution.

Read a fantasy book set in a world which doesn't have pandemics or global warming. Or if there is a plague in that world, at lease that plague isn't real, and any global warming/cooling happening in that world is just fictional.

Back in February 2020 (during the Before Times...) Canadian fantasy writer Charles Moffat wrote a post for Lilith Press titled "Is Sword and Sorcery Dead? Hardly."

During his post he describes doing much the same thing that Robert E. Howard (the grandfather of Sword & Sorcery and the creator of Conan the Barbarian) did, but with several big differences:

  • He depicts racial diversity in a positive light.
  • He depicts women in realistic and often positive roles.

So... Basically it is "Woke Sword & Sorcery". That is something the fantasy genre really needs honestly. None of the sexism or racism you might see in old fantasy books, which are sometimes blatantly racist and other times feels more like closet racism.

Nothing wrong with Wokeness in our opinion. It is the people who are anti-Woke you need to worry about.

Furthermore, Charles Moffat's Sword & Sorcery series "Wulfric the Wanderer" is doing quite well. All of the books thus far in the series have either 4.5 or 5 stars and some glowing reviews from fans.

Lastly, Moffat's newest addition to the series is coming out on December 1st 2021 and is already available for preorders for the ebook. You can get it via:

Amazon.ca: "The Raven's Feast"

Amazon.com: "The Raven's Feast"

Amazon.co.uk: "The Raven's Feast"

And others. Each ebook in the series sells for approx. $2.99 and each paperback copy for $5.99. Exact pricing may vary on region.

The lengths of each story in the Wulfric the Wanderer series varies. Some are short stories, some are novelettes and only 1 thus far is a novella. The recommended reading order is below, however Moffat says you don't need to read them in order. In true Sword & Sorcery tradition each story stands on its own and they don't need to be read in order (because apparently he doesn't write/publish them in order).

  1. Portal of Destiny (Short Story)
  2. The Cult of the She-Bear (Novella)
  3. Shifting Shadows in Iztark (Novelette)
  4. Black Monoliths of Al-Kazar (Short Story)
  5. The Unbreakable Arrow (Novelette) 
  6. The Raven's Feast (Short Story)

 So sit back, make yourself some coffee or tea, and enjoy a good story or two so you can get away from the crazy world we currently live in and visit a fantasy world where oddly enough things seem a whole lot simpler and less crazy.

Although the giant raven eating someone on a rooftop is pretty weird, we admit. (Giant ravens also appear in one of Moffat's novels: "The Demon's Sacrifice", which you should also check out.)




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