I've been following your tabletop game channel for ages but never knew about this one!! As an avid reader who also relishes in fantasy, I'm beyond excited to go through all these and find new gems! I always trust your taste!
A big thing for me is that they tend to be shorter, quicker reads, not so concerned with world building, and they aren't usually one long continuing series you have to read in order.
I, too, never considered reading Star Trek books until, on a whim, I picked a couple up at my local used book store. Avatar 1 and 2 are the first two books in the DS9 "relaunch" series. The relaunch line picks up the story directly after Season 7 with the idea of being Season 8. I can't get over how fun it is to have all my favorite characters, and a few new ones, back in action. Quark has a romance, and it's amazing :D
Oh no got the seedbears trilogy on a whim too, haven’t gotten to it yet! And yeah the worm of Urakhu is absolutely awesome, love Tierney and audibly gasped when you showed that Yog-sothoth cycle volume didn’t even know it existed! The repairer of reputations is one of my all time favourite short stories as well, it’s sooooo weird! I love that somehow the ambiguity is maintained throughout! And as other people have said now I have to, ehem, go buy some books…
Campbell really is the best writer in the Lovecraftian tradition. Not getting along with him means not getting along with great writing. He really has elevated pulp beyond pulp.
No it doesn't. I love great and well written prose - Dunsany, Ligotti, Cisco, etc. (all better writers than Campbell can ever dream of being). Get out of here with that crap. I just don't like Campbell. I also don't care about elevating pulp. Pulp is brilliant. It doesn't need to be elevated. Yuk!
The Arthur Barnes collection has a story co written with Henry Kuttner. An ok collection, with the story taking place on the comet (the Kuttner story) being the best. I tracked down a copy of 'We Are All Legends' as soon as you described it 👍
Glad to see you back. That Frazetta cover might be one of his collaborations with Roy G Krenkel. The Marcel Schwob book is from 1892, only the Wakefield edition is new, Snuggly Books has translated some of his other works. That Adrian Cole trilogy is coming out in an omnibus in January, maybe revised (?), he has revised quite a bunch of his early work, I've been eager to read his Voidal series for a long time.
Looks like a lot of good reading on the horizon. I love Conan and will have to check out some of those Alien titles also. Have fun and see you in the next one.
Great as always! Carmen Maria Machado, who wrote the intro and did the notes for the version of "Carmilla" that you have is an amazing writer as well. Check out her collection "Her Body and Other Parties".
I got lucky this past month! I found copies of Tanith Lee’s Birthgrave, Jean Lorrah’s Savage Empire, the last book in the Fafhrd & Grey Mouser series (Knight & Knave), and the first two Horeseclans books by Robert Adams; all in good condition for low prices! Also, Happy Holidays, man! I can’t wait to see what books you recommend next!
So glad you let me know about “We are all Legends” what a great book. Such a wicked, doomed vibe. WTF was that story about the hands and fingers? So wild. These books you highlight are some deep cuts for me. Thanks for sharing! If you want to check out some Warhammer Fantasy type role playing books, check out Kriegmesser and Warlock! if you’ve not already. Kreigsmesser is particularly clever with a wicked twist on the Law vrs Chaos plot.
I picked up Star Axe and Power of the Serpent a few years ago. Star Axe had a lot of promise out of the gate (nice world map) but devolves to the party trudging around in misery interminably until the book just ends. Not inspired to get anything else by the author. I didn't LOVE Power of the Serpent but I'd like to read the others, some interesting good/evil druid magic in there. It does get pretty grimy as you said.
Your taste seems extremely heavy metal! 🤘🎸As for me, I’m into original series Star Trek novels. I asked my girlfriend for Star Trek 1-12 for Christmas, here’s hoping! They’re laid-back, mediocre reading.
Having been unable to finish the 2nd TCrow novel (it was awful), I can only imagine how bad the series had become in this second trilogy! Lovecraft is probably spinning in his grave.
I've been following your tabletop game channel for ages but never knew about this one!! As an avid reader who also relishes in fantasy, I'm beyond excited to go through all these and find new gems! I always trust your taste!
Awesome, thank you!
Classic pulpy horror and sword & sorcery just hits different. Awesome collection.
A big thing for me is that they tend to be shorter, quicker reads, not so concerned with world building, and they aren't usually one long continuing series you have to read in order.
I, too, never considered reading Star Trek books until, on a whim, I picked a couple up at my local used book store. Avatar 1 and 2 are the first two books in the DS9 "relaunch" series. The relaunch line picks up the story directly after Season 7 with the idea of being Season 8. I can't get over how fun it is to have all my favorite characters, and a few new ones, back in action. Quark has a romance, and it's amazing :D
That’s awesome. I love Quark, Rom and Nog. Nog is probably my favorite character in the entire ensemble.
Oh no got the seedbears trilogy on a whim too, haven’t gotten to it yet!
And yeah the worm of Urakhu is absolutely awesome, love Tierney and audibly gasped when you showed that Yog-sothoth cycle volume didn’t even know it existed!
The repairer of reputations is one of my all time favourite short stories as well, it’s sooooo weird! I love that somehow the ambiguity is maintained throughout!
And as other people have said now I have to, ehem, go buy some books…
The two Tierney novels in the Yog-Sothoth cycle are A-tier. Just amazing. Over the last year he has become one of my favorites.
Thanks for the shout-out. What a great book-hoard!
Are you John F? I can't see your user name. :)
WOW - so many cool books! My cart is filled to overflowing.
Campbell really is the best writer in the Lovecraftian tradition. Not getting along with him means not getting along with great writing.
He really has elevated pulp beyond pulp.
No it doesn't. I love great and well written prose - Dunsany, Ligotti, Cisco, etc. (all better writers than Campbell can ever dream of being). Get out of here with that crap. I just don't like Campbell. I also don't care about elevating pulp. Pulp is brilliant. It doesn't need to be elevated. Yuk!
The Arthur Barnes collection has a story co written with Henry Kuttner. An ok collection, with the story taking place on the comet (the Kuttner story) being the best. I tracked down a copy of 'We Are All Legends' as soon as you described it 👍
I bought We Are All Legends after you recommended it in a previous video. It is awesome. Thank you, Daniel.
It is so good!
Glad to see you back. That Frazetta cover might be one of his collaborations with Roy G Krenkel. The Marcel Schwob book is from 1892, only the Wakefield edition is new, Snuggly Books has translated some of his other works. That Adrian Cole trilogy is coming out in an omnibus in January, maybe revised (?), he has revised quite a bunch of his early work, I've been eager to read his Voidal series for a long time.
Thanks for the additional info!
Just found your channel. Great stuff! I also just picked up an older version of that Etidorhpa book. I didn't know what to make of that either.
Seems like such a wild book!
Looks like a lot of good reading on the horizon. I love Conan and will have to check out some of those Alien titles also. Have fun and see you in the next one.
Great as always! Carmen Maria Machado, who wrote the intro and did the notes for the version of "Carmilla" that you have is an amazing writer as well. Check out her collection "Her Body and Other Parties".
I have “Her Body…” :). Read a couple of stories out of it and really liked them.
I got lucky this past month! I found copies of Tanith Lee’s Birthgrave, Jean Lorrah’s Savage Empire, the last book in the Fafhrd & Grey Mouser series (Knight & Knave), and the first two Horeseclans books by Robert Adams; all in good condition for low prices!
Also, Happy Holidays, man! I can’t wait to see what books you recommend next!
Oh wow! Sounds like you scored some great books! I’ve been wanting to revisit the Horseclan series.
Great to see such a celebration of print. & I’m remembering an old Gryphon Books bookmark I once had…
Happy New Year!
Happy new year to you as well. :) thanks for stopping by. We should chat more in 2025.
The covers on those David Gemmell novels are fantastic! I'm a sucker for a good fantasy novel cover. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I know! The covers are what drew me in.
@@allfictionisfantasyI believe Against the Horde was the original title for Legend. That is a great story. Don’t wait too long. Druss kicks arse!
Everytime you release a new book video I end up spending way too much time on ebay trying to find some of them 😂
Ha. Welcome to my life! ;)
I have an entire bookshelf behind me because of exactly this haha.
So glad you let me know about “We are all Legends” what a great book. Such a wicked, doomed vibe. WTF was that story about the hands and fingers? So wild. These books you highlight are some deep cuts for me. Thanks for sharing! If you want to check out some Warhammer Fantasy type role playing books, check out Kriegmesser and Warlock! if you’ve not already. Kreigsmesser is particularly clever with a wicked twist on the Law vrs Chaos plot.
By Divers Hands has got to be one of the all time great fantasy stories.
Just got the first 6 of Sword-Dancer saga, almost finished it. I've really enjoyed it.
Getting the 7th is pretty expensive. But the 8th seems easy.
Didn't even know it was a series!
Peter David also wrote Babylon 5 novels. They are very good stories. I have one novel signed by him 👍
He’s a very kind of workman like author. Gets the job done kind of guy.
If you like a bit of warhammer and haven't read Drachenfles by Kim Newman writing as Jack Yeovil I'd really recommend it, great fantasy horror book.
Thanks!
A few of the books you showed are print on demand, not just the ones with the non descript covers.
Nice!
I picked up Star Axe and Power of the Serpent a few years ago. Star Axe had a lot of promise out of the gate (nice world map) but devolves to the party trudging around in misery interminably until the book just ends. Not inspired to get anything else by the author. I didn't LOVE Power of the Serpent but I'd like to read the others, some interesting good/evil druid magic in there. It does get pretty grimy as you said.
Your taste seems extremely heavy metal! 🤘🎸As for me, I’m into original series Star Trek novels. I asked my girlfriend for Star Trek 1-12 for Christmas, here’s hoping! They’re laid-back, mediocre reading.
Total comfort reads.
Having been unable to finish the 2nd TCrow novel (it was awful), I can only imagine how bad the series had become in this second trilogy! Lovecraft is probably spinning in his grave.
I like Lumley more than Lovecraft.