Mark B. Gilgam

There comes the day when all the heroic tales written by storytellers like Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, or H.P. Lovecraft, three times are read, and there are no more new adventures of Conan the Barbarian and Tarzan of the Apes. After twenty times watching the “13th Warrior,” “The Princess Bride,” and “Desperado,” there is only one thing left for an aficionado of Sword & Sorcery to do: Build a world where magic is another force of nature. Send forth a young master blacksmith and warrior to see the horizons open up upon stark and beautiful lands and glittering cities and purple sails take bewitched crews to treasure islands. Larger than life, he faces steep odds and powerful evil and hits hard wherever innocent creatures suffer. For that is what heroes do.