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Published Between Starfalls (ebook) on itch.io in preparation for the big Narratess Sale this weekend! It's already on sale for 80% off (for 5 days only)

Check it out! https://skaeth.itch.io/between-starfalls

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Are there any newer fantasy series that fall into the sword and planet category? I'm thinking of stuff like Pern, Darkover, and Gramarye where the fantasy world is an Earth colony on a distant planet in the far future.

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Looking for fantasy stories with a non-European setting? Here are 21 books for you to browse and step into a new world with non-European based cultures!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/NonEuropeanFantasy/j3g7cv4uf4

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Looking for escape from *gestures at everything*? Here's a collection of 47 #fantasy and #ScienceFiction books, all about PG-13 or younger, all available across multiple stores. Head off on an adventure!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/widesffnov24/5yilzy4s7w

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Or perhaps you're looking for dragons and danger! You don't want to miss these 22 books then. Some have romance & others do not, but all are rated about PG-13 or less.
https://books.bookfunnel.com/dragonsanddanger/avhqd9zrbz

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Gor (1987) removes everything provocative and interesting and original from John Norman's excellent first Gor novel. It becomes a stock-standard barbarian warrior adventure movie that lacks pace and energy. Very tame and very disappointing.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2024/09/gor-1987.html

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Who's looking for more Epic Sci-fi and Fantasy? Here are 138 books are all grouped in one spot for your perusal including fantasy, science fiction, horror, & all the crossovers between those genres.

https://books.bookfunnel.com/sffh_megasale/9rzoa5ssqo

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Leigh Brackett's The Ginger Star is a fine fast-moving, action-packed, atmospheric1974 sword-and-planet adventure and a first contact story. Brackett was at her best describing decaying civilisations and the planet Skaith qualifies as that.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/leigh-bracketts-ginger-star.html

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Berkeley Livingston’s novel Queen of the Panther World dates from 1948. A man, a woman have a telepathic link with a panther. They end up on a strange planet with giant lizard-like creatures with human riders. Some fine ideas poorly developed.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/berkeley-livingstons-queen-of-panther.html

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Poul Anderson’s 1952 novella Sargasso of Lost Starships is superior-grade complex space opera. With three interstellar civilisations in conflict and no clear-cut good guys and bad guys. High adventure and action plus a twisted love story.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/07/poul-andersons-sargasso-of-lost.html

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Looking for more stories? These 48 #books are all free for July. All are fantasy and science fiction stories from a variety of authors.

https://books.bookfunnel.com/fantasyscifijuly/uzcprtyhu3

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101 Epic Science Fiction and Fantasy books here! All subgenres can be found here, though scrolling through I see a lot of sci-fi & a lot of historical-looking books. Check it out!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/junsff002b/huwbaxiyta

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Oh wow, I just realized that I'm free to republish "Dark Hour." #samuraipunk
My greatst thanks to Matt and Cameron for publishing it. The FUTURES THAT NEVER WERE is a fun (and super THICC) anthoogy. If you like #pulp #swordandplanet, check it out!

Krull (1983) is more a sword-and-planet than a sword-and-sorcery film and has a lot in common with Star Wars. It includes every fantasy cliché imaginable but it looks fabulous and has energy, enthusiasm and style. And lots of action. Pure fun.

My review: https://princeplanetmovies.blogspot.com/2016/06/krull-1983.html

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But instead of heading to Hollywood after the end of the pulps, Edmond ended his long career at DC Comics. She died from cancer in 1978, but not before turning in the first draft script for what would become “The Empire Strikes Back!” Although her script was rewritten by others, many key elements remain.

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...he told his secretary to "get this guy Brackett." She then left for Hollywood, leaving a half-finished tale for Planet Stories 'Lorelei of the Red Mist'. She asked an emerging writer friend to complete it for her, which Ray Bradbury did seamlessly. Her husband was another SF/F writer of the era, Edmond Hamilton.

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The great science fiction writer Leigh Brackett was #BOTD

The “Queen of Space Opera” wrote SF/F for the pulps of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1944 she wrote her first mystery novel, which came to the attention of legendary director Howard Hawks. When Hawks needed help on an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’…

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Are you on #KoboPlus ? Do you love #SFFBooks ? Here are 104 #fantasy and #sciencefiction books to check out, all free with your KoboPlus subscription! There's incredible variety here. My #StoneAge #SwordAndPlanet #ScienceFantasy #EpicFantasy series Between Starfalls and Let Loose the Fallen & my #dragon rider fantasy novel Windward are included.

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Yesterday's #Hex23 #Dungeon23 post is Area D: The Viperbird's Lair, which is a 4-room mini-dungeon itself.

https://rubicon4.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log/r1-zendas-dungeon-environs-area-d

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Today is a two-for on #RedSunsOverRubicon4 Room 20 of Zenda's Dungeon is Gorf's room.

https://rubicon4.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log/zendas-dungeon-room-20

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Zenda's Dungeon Room 19: Salvager's Quarters.

https://rubicon4.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log/zendas-dungeon-room-19

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And here is Room 15: The Supply Room. Here we get close enough to Zenda that the PCs may encounter her! There is a random table dictating Where's Zenda? at any given moment from here onward.

https://rubicon4.obsidianportal.com/adventure-log/zendas-dungeon-room-15

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Some more info about #Rubicon4 and its day-night cycle, gravity, and weather are here:

https://rubicon4.obsidianportal.com/wikis/planetary-cycle-of-rubicon-4

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