Vote for favourite stories in Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 10

Well, there wasn't massive response to my question on Facebook as to whether or not to have a poll about readers' favourite stories in the last volume of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy, but the majority of those who did vote were favourable.

 

So I'll see what response an actual request for votes goes.

 

In order no writers will suffer the ignominy of getting nil points (viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest will know what I mean), the overall voting will not be public and only the names of the top three favourites will be published by me. 

 

Please send only your votes for the best three stories in Volume 10 at paralleluniversepublications@gmx.co.uk

 

The stories in Volume 10 are, in order of appearance:

 

MASKS FOR THE MADNESS Harry Elliott

SAFE AS BANKS Geoffrey Hart

DEATH ABANDONED Virgo Kevonté

CAVERN OF STONES Phil Emery

BAD MOON RISING Robert Mammone

THE SALT OF TILANTOKKA Gregory D. Mele

SHANGLOR A Stranger Tale Jay Litwicki

A CONFUSION OF RENEGADES Adrian Cole

 

 

Continuing stories in Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy

What has been really interesting to see in the ten volumes of Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy published so far are some worthwhile and fascinating series of stories that follow on from each other like a serial.

One of the first of these was Dev Agarwal's Stone Snake stories, which started off in Volume 2 with "Stone Snake", "In the Iron Woods" in Volume 4, "Bridge of Sorrows" in Volume 5, and, finally, "Land of the Dead" in Volume 6.

 

Another series is Harry Elliott's Under-Valley stories: "Skulls for Silver" in Volume 5, "Trials for Treasure" in Volume 6, "Blades for a Bounty" in Volume 7, "Masks for the Madness" in Volume 10. 

 

We have also Geoff Hart's humorous play on Ffafrd and Gray Mouser with his female protagonists Mouse and Freya, which starts with "Chain of Command" in Volume 1, "At Sea" in Volume 4, "The Quality of Mercy" in Volume 8, and "Safe as Banks" in Volume 10.

 

Of course Adrian Cole has switched from one continuing character to another, from Elak of Atlantis to the mysterious Voidal. And Andrew Darlington's Eternal Assassin.

 

I am sure I have missed some, but it's fascinating how many continuing characters there are in sword and sorcery which, much like detective stories, seems made for them.

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