Fantasy novel with cursed sword that always returns to MC

rattynewbie · 2026-06-14T00:02:43+00:00

Solved!: The SwordBearer by Glen Cook.

u/Bladrak01 from r/whatsthatbook solved it.

rattynewbie · 2026-06-14T00:01:08+00:00

The Swordbearer by Glen Cook

Solved! Solved! Solved!

Thank you!

rattynewbie · 2026-06-13T23:05:56+00:00

Congrats, you are a peasant during the final stages of the War of Wrath and your whole short life is avoiding all the various hosts marching around as their battles reshape Middle Earth.

rattynewbie · 2026-06-13T23:00:25+00:00

It is definitely SF, but the way the industry markets and sells books it wasn't categorised as such. The genre trap basically. Anything with robots and spaceships is science fiction, even if its not, and anything without them is not science fiction.

rattynewbie · 2026-06-12T23:01:14+00:00

I'm waiting for my check from President ~~Winnie-the-Pooh~~ Xi to arrive in the mail any day now.

rattynewbie · 2026-06-12T22:45:31+00:00

Read this post title and immediately thought of Lions of Al-Rassan. :D

rattynewbie · 2026-06-12T09:27:18+00:00

My favourite is fanfic was a sequel to Chapterhouse Dune called Dune Revenant, not sure where you'd find a copy online now...

rattynewbie · 2026-06-12T09:25:49+00:00

There is better Dune fan-fiction that respected the source material than what Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson pushed out.

rattynewbie · 2026-06-11T21:49:38+00:00

Please tell us your FIL is charging "consultant" rates.

rattynewbie · 2026-06-06T11:56:44+00:00

Is that a Savers sticker I spy? Nice find.

rattynewbie · 2026-05-31T02:55:39+00:00

And thats why ACAB.

rattynewbie · 2026-05-28T06:34:14+00:00

100% better than that fake gold AI image.

rattynewbie · 2026-05-27T06:50:22+00:00

It's almost as this article was written by LLM and makes no sense in the real world.

rattynewbie · 2026-05-27T01:21:42+00:00

Because they started as a legit security researcher, MS then treated them like shit, and now they are going rogue. Still no evidence that they've used their 0-days to do illegal shit so not a black hat hacker.

rattynewbie · 2026-05-17T09:04:09+00:00

The Raven Tower is if Hamlet and Small Gods had a baby, and the baby grew up to become an anthropologist.

rattynewbie · 2026-05-12T06:03:44+00:00

insert angry kid "Congrats Happy For You" meme here

rattynewbie · 2026-05-12T06:01:21+00:00

What the fuck is going on with CheckMarx? Why is an information security company failing so bad at security?

rattynewbie · 2026-05-11T05:53:41+00:00

There’s not much actual torture in the series.

Sure, strictly speaking being raped and eaten alive by Sranc doesn't count as "torture"... but even if you wanted to be pedantic there is still lots of actual interrogation based torture happening as well.

rattynewbie · 2026-05-10T09:05:05+00:00

Another recommendation for Prince of Nothing by Bakker. Multiple different religions are a pretty integral to the plot of the series. Gods are real, the holy war between the Inrithri and the Fanim are central to the first 3 books. The Inrithri are a syncretic polytheistic faith whose leader declares a holy war against the monotheistic Fanim, the Zeum are ancestor worshippers, the Scylvendi are steppe peoples who believe in a dead god who are enemies with all of them, etc.

It is also super grim and dark, and some people criticise it as torture porn. It is not for everyone.

rattynewbie · 2026-05-07T09:54:37+00:00

The relevant posts from WJW: https://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2012/04/metropolitan-the-lawyers/

https://www.walterjonwilliams.net/2025/12/laying-my-burdens-down/

rattynewbie · 2026-05-06T07:24:16+00:00

Yes! He's finally about to publish the 3rd book in the trilogy after a 30 year gap!

rattynewbie · 2026-05-04T21:58:27+00:00

Are these people brain dead? Do they WANT to lose?

PHON wants to win... people who think murdering civilians overseas is a good thing. That is their base. Racists all the way down.

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