Review: New Edge Sword & Sorcery, Nos. 0-2

Cover of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine, Winter 2023 (Vol. 1, No. 2)

There’s a huge variety of entertaining and illuminative content in New Edge Sword and Sorcery Magazine. Anyone who’s interested in the subject would be well advised to check the magazine out.

Book Reviews: Ill Met and Well Met

Cover, Saber & Shadow, by S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier

I have to give Leiber a pass on the fridging in Ill Met in Lankhmar. But I don’t have to enjoy it. 

One of the many reasons I still love Saber & Shadow is that its women don’t get fridged, because they are the protagonists. Their lovers don’t get fridged, either, because these women are into each other. It’s a joyful romp, albeit with a lot of tense moments, and a few traumatic memories for one character.

Book Review: Swords and Scoundrels by Julia Knight

Vocho and Kasha are duelists, or were, once upon a time. In these less enlightened times, not only are they no longer in the Duellists Guild, the Guild itself isn’t quite the institution it once was, after the fall of a King and the rise of a new order. Vocho and Kasha take whatever jobs […]

Book Review: The Copper Promise by Jen Williams

Sebastian and Wydrin are mercenaries and adventurers, longtime friends and partners, doing jobs for coin in a way and manner familiar to a lot of sword and sorcery fiction. Sebastian is the big guy, a defrocked paladin of a mountain god. Wydrin is an infamous rogue of the port city of Crosshaven known as the […]

Mining the Genre Asteroid: Jirel of Joiry

Mining the Genre Asteroid is Paul Weimer’s look at the history of the science fiction and fantasy field, bringing to light important, interesting and entertaining books from science fiction and fantasy’s past to you. France during the dark ages. The ruler of a feudal holding stands to protect the people and realm against usurpers and […]