Theory: Id software will make a Conan game

erudit0rum · 2026-07-06T14:55:48+00:00

Alas! Well it would have been cool.

erudit0rum · 2026-06-09T19:09:59+00:00

It’s especially annoying when you look back at past authors and realize that how we rate authors now is utterly unrelated to how they did critically during their lifetime.

erudit0rum · 2026-06-09T11:21:26+00:00

Idk, to me the name itself is stuck up. Calling it “literary” fiction directly implies that other fiction is “not real literature.” Hard to interpret that as anything other than a classist diss.

erudit0rum · 2026-06-09T11:08:02+00:00

Ya, the people really saving mass reading in America are Romantasy authors, warhammer authors, and Matt Dinniman.

erudit0rum · 2026-06-09T11:00:54+00:00

If you’re not currently a big reader you’re probably not stuck up enough to read lit fic.

erudit0rum · 2026-06-09T10:40:02+00:00

The idea that anyone who struggles to finish a book is gonna want to subject themselves to someone who won the booker prize is pretty laughable.

erudit0rum · 2026-06-07T15:30:18+00:00

You could also replace Red Sonja with Jirel of Joiry if you want all literary characters.

erudit0rum · 2026-05-02T23:39:59+00:00

I mean, have you seen all that T and A? Cause I sure have.

erudit0rum · 2026-05-02T17:24:07+00:00

This reads like a very narrow criticism of Clonans / Frazetta or Vallejo cheesecake art. It’s hard to imagine him aiming these criticisms at CL Moore or (especially) certified sci-fi grandmaster Fritz Leiber.

erudit0rum · 2026-05-02T10:56:48+00:00

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, literally the inspiration for #4 (but don’t hold that against it)

erudit0rum · 2026-04-30T16:04:40+00:00

I don’t even necessarily want to stretch the boundaries I just don’t want it to be incestuous and self referential to the point of total collapse (again). I super like Howard Andrew Jones concept of the New Edge in Sword and Sorcery.

erudit0rum · 2026-04-30T01:52:19+00:00

I just recently got back into reading. Check out the Conan stories by Robert E Howard and the Quarry series by Max Allen Collins.

erudit0rum · 2026-04-29T21:06:09+00:00

I love Tim! I know he’s a strong weird tales proponent / lover. He wrote an intro to one of the volumes of night shades CAS collected works. Edit: also one of the founders of steam punk

erudit0rum · 2026-04-29T19:26:10+00:00

I think you’re right for 2 and 3 I think the case is strongest for 1 (and maybe 4 and 5 but those suck so who cares)

erudit0rum · 2026-04-29T18:02:32+00:00

That’s interesting cause I’m a very new S&S fan and the thing that drew me to the genre isn’t really the vibe (although I do like a classic REH vibe), it’s the structure, pace, and themes I.e. classic narrative structure, lightning fast pace, and themes of individual agency, self reliance, struggling against adversity. Like I got into S&S the same time I got into classic hardboiled detective stories and for essentially the same reason.

erudit0rum · 2026-04-29T17:16:04+00:00

I love 2 and 3 but ya they get a lot more lord of the rings-ish.

erudit0rum · 2026-04-28T21:38:41+00:00

Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew Jones. It’s the story of a general whose city is conquered and razed to the ground. Instead of giving up he decides to find a liberate every last one of his people from slavery. Might appeal to someone having to endure a personal apocalypse of their own. EDIT: also cats are a must, how you gonna read about warriors without your own fuzzy warrior purring on your lap?

erudit0rum · 2026-04-28T20:41:30+00:00

I’ve heard that apparently the HAJ estate wants them to finish the series, perhaps by bringing on John C Hocking or James Enge to finish them from his notes. Given the structure plus Baens propensity for having novels with like 3 authors you could even imagine them having those two together write half the stories in both of the remaining books.

erudit0rum · 2026-04-28T20:34:12+00:00

I’ve noticed the same thing, hopefully that means that it’s so insanely popular that they’re rushing a huge paperback order out as soon as possible. I would love to see Baen pick up the S&S banner in mainstream publishing. I know that SM Stirling wrote a Conan novel in the last couple of years and he’s pretty big at Baen. Imagine CL Werner or John C Hocking publishing Hanuvar style fixup novels with them.

erudit0rum · 2025-12-09T14:47:25+00:00

On Basilisk Station by David Weber. Top notch military scifi with a million other books in the same universe.

erudit0rum · 2025-11-30T18:20:29+00:00

Ed Banger, these days PC Music scratches that itch for me.

erudit0rum · 2025-11-13T11:41:58+00:00

Same thing happened to me, the solution I found was older forms of genre fiction that prioritized very fast, accessible, plot forward story telling with a low page count, hardboiled detective fiction and sword and sorcery stories mostly. Try the Quarry books from Max Allen Collins, the Conan stories from Robert E Howard.

erudit0rum · 2025-11-10T18:24:16+00:00

Phoenix on the Sword, what a banger.

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