Very Excited

I was finally able to pick up Fritz Leiber's wonderful Swords series in full on Amazon. Going to be a bit of a wait, as the vender I choose is in Britain, but I've bought from them before, and have never had a complaint. Still, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, squee (What? I really like Fantasy , and these two are just as influential as Conan, Elric, The Lord of the Rings and Lovecraft's works, especially in the Swords and Sorcery sub-genre. Squeeing like a schoolgirl is entirely appropriate)! Also saw in Barnes and Noble recently that the first Corum trilogy is coming back into print in 2015, which is also making me giddy. The Prince in the Scarlet Robe is sadly underappreciated, in my not so humble opinion.

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[Elric of Melnipony]

As rare as Elric fans seem to be sometimes, it's even more difficult to track down people who appreciate guys like Corum and Hawkmoon.

[Elric of Melneighbone]

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Which is very unfortunate, they really are very interesting series, if a bit trippy at times. Still, I'm hoping that changes in the near future. The book I saw the upcoming Corum releases in was a reprint of The Eternal Champion (ah, Erekosë. The obscurest of obscure characters), and Elric himself got that lovely comic/graphic novel adaption not too long ago.

I always find it sad that so few people have Moorcock, Leiber, or Clark Ashton Smith. Just as influential as Tolkien on modern fantasy, in some ways even more so. Tolkien may have given us the D&D core races, but Moorcock gave us the Multiverse. Howard created Swords and Sorcery, but Leiber gave a far more human element to it (Conan, while technically human, is just a bit to idealized. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are much more flawed, and identifiable), and essentially created the idea of the Thieves Guild that shows up so often. Well, maybe that Elric Movie idea that's been banded about since the 70's will finally get made. Of course, then you'd have people calling a Game of Thrones ripoff, or comparing Elric to Sepheroth, of all the inane things.

Really, it makes me wish modern RPGs came with those lovely indexes of suggested reading, like D&D used to.