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Post by Scott on Mar 31, 2008 10:24:20 GMT -5
I read this when it first came out, but have since lost it. I picked up the new Paizo printing. Holy long winded forward; Erik Mona wrote a seven page introduction to the book, and made some cover space for himself.
"Introduction by Erik Mona". Would he merit cover space if the book was published by any company that he wasn’t an editor-in-chief for? It seems cheesy to me. But anyways...
I remember thinking when I first read these books that they were Gary’s best fiction. Much better writing than the Gord books (but the short story At Moonset Blackcat Comes is top notch). I believe the Gord books suffered on many levels due to what happened at TSR. I'm planning on re-reading them. I'm hoping I'll still have the same high opinion. Maybe I’ll get some inspiration for the Mythus game I am (hopefully) going to run this Friday.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 31, 2008 11:50:12 GMT -5
I never got a chance to read any of those. They just never appeared on the shelves. I knew people that had copies but I don't know where they got them from. Its hard to find shit in NY sometimes. Demand is always up so you've got a short window to buy something fresh. I remember getting my Gord books outside the city ( Florida, upstate NY, etc.) Nowadays, I don't even bother going to the sci-fi section anymore as its a lost cause. I'd rather buy new sci-f-/fantasy stuff reviewed, reduced in price and sent right to my door. That way I don't have to be turned off by fantasy every time that I go to a bookstore. I sometimes imagine what my perfect bookstore would be and see a large section called GARY where everything is of comparable worth to and in the same aesthetic as original AD&D. Man! That is a fantasy!  Seriously, I've got to get a set of those books sooner or later. Its a trilogy, right? |
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Post by GT on Mar 31, 2008 12:05:12 GMT -5
Yeppers, it was a trilogy--but Gary had other stories in various stages of completeness. Right now I'm re-reading the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser books, and once again seeing the definite links to D&D/AD&D. They inspire me to do some new Greyhawk adventures. It's no wonder that Gary and Fritz were chums.
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Post by Scott on Mar 31, 2008 12:19:53 GMT -5
A trilogy was originally released, but a fourth book will be part of the new line. A different main character though, I think.
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Post by GT on Mar 31, 2008 12:23:13 GMT -5
Well, they're releasing the Stoat and whatsis series Gary had been working on--which, again links heavily with Fafhrd/Grey Mouser. I'd like to see what Gary had started concerning Atlantlan and Lemurian adventures of Mythus characters in story form!
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Post by Scott on Mar 31, 2008 12:23:41 GMT -5
I liked these books when they were first released, and that was before I was familiar with Aerth or had ever touched a Mythus book. I'm already liking them more than I did.
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Post by GT on Mar 31, 2008 12:38:06 GMT -5
Aerth was much more richly realized than Oerth--partially because Gary drew on the real Earth and its legends liberally, as well as having Phaeree for the material of mythology and the Faerie tales! And, he didn't have to work by committee--Gary knew what he wanted, assembled a team and went from there. He kept us all in line with his vision---I had a tendency to become "over-descriptive", and Gary would gently reign that in! ^__^
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Post by Shalaban on Jan 16, 2009 17:26:13 GMT -5
I don’t think one could be over descriptive, at least for my tastes. Especially concerning the description of a world.
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