![]() ![]() Son of the Black Sword is a heroic fantasy novel set in a medieval-style world of magic swords, archaic magic elements and relics, and plenty of war. The story follows Ashok, the reluctant hero-a somewhat typical downcast orphan with a mysterious past, who finds himself on the wrong side of, well, pretty much everything-on his quest for justice. Although it’s not what I would call a literary masterpiece (see last issue’s review of Ian Tregillis’s The Mechanical), I enjoyed it and I think Grimdark Magazine readers will enjoy it as well. Overall, with a few reservations, I’m glad I did. ![]() Correia’s oeuvre. Well, that changed recently when I surfed across Son of the Black Sword on Amazon and decided to give it a try. When I searched out his books at the time, however, I found that both his Monster Hunter series and his Grimnoir Chronicles featured guys and gals with large machine-guns on the cover, and I’m just not that into guns. Correia seemed genuinely enthusiastic about writing gritty, entertaining SFF. Correia and author John Brown ( The Dark God series) were doing a writing seminar that someone had kindly posted to YouTube. I first came across Larry Correia while I was doing what most failed writers do-browsing the internet to find out how I can become a better writer instead of actually writing. ![]()
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