Monday, June 02, 2014

New Review of Swords of Talera

S E Lindberg has put up a detailed review of Swords of Talera, the first in the Talera series of Sword & Planet novels. I hope you can check it out.

As I mentioned to him in a comment, Swords of Talera was written when I was twenty-four, although it was polished up before it was printed in 2007. There was a pretty long gap between Swords and Wings over Talera, the second book, and another long gap before I wrote the third book, Witch of Talera. Swords is a bit more pure Sword & Planet, and very much an homage to ERB. The second and third books begin to bring in more Sword & Sorcery and horror elements, and the series gets progressively darker across the trilogy.



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15 comments:

  1. Erik Donald France11:57 AM

    All right, Charles - cool, man ~!

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  2. Brian Miller4:30 PM

    i am one book from completing the game of thrones series...and i will get right on these...

    popping over to check out the review...

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  3. Cloudia5:37 PM

    Always nice to get a thoughtful notice, Charles.

    Perhaps GOT will bring attention to Talera.




    ALOHA from Honolulu
    ComfortSpiral
    =^..^=

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  4. Charles Gramlich8:29 PM

    Erik, thankee, man.

    Brian, Lana has been watching the Game of Thrones show. I will eventually read the books myself although I haven't started them yet.

    Cloudia, yes it is.

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  5. Angie12:55 AM

    Hey, nice review! Congrats!

    Angie

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  6. Charles Gramlich9:53 AM

    Angie, yeah, I was happy for it.

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  7. BernardL11:13 AM

    I noticed something, my friend. There are multiple Talera series offerings on Amazon, and the reviews do not show up on all of them. Great series.

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  8. Charles Gramlich11:49 AM

    Bernard, I saw that and I'm not sure why. I should probably check with Amazon about it.

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  9. Prashant C. Trikannad12:46 PM

    That was a nice review of "Swords of Talera," Charles. I thought your poetic side touched every line I read over at Seth Lindberg's blog.

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  10. Charles Gramlich9:32 AM

    Prashant, thanks. I appreciate it. I really like poetic prose and try hard to produce it.

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  11. Oscar Case4:45 PM

    A fine review and I hope it encourages many people to pickup a copy for their library.

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  12. Tyhitia Green6:57 PM

    A nice review, Charles. Congratulations! I can't wait to read them all myself.

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  13. Riot Kitty2:43 PM

    Congrats, Charles! I didn't know you were so young when you wrote it. That's neat.

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  14. Charles Gramlich11:15 PM

    Oscar, me too!

    Tyhitia, thankee much!

    Riot Kitty, I actually wrote my first novel when I was 18, but it will never see the light of day! :)

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  15. sage2:33 PM

    If I understand this, as you age things are getting darker? Have you had your eyes checked? :)

    Congratulations on the review of your earlier work!

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