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<blockquote data-quote="13garth13" data-source="post: 6354773" data-attributes="member: 16979">Richard K. Morgan's &quot;The Steel Remains&quot;, and the sequel &quot;The Cold Commands&quot; (haven't read the third one yet; not even sure if it is out)....a little too in-your-face with some of the more....uh......alternative approaches to sex and violence <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />, but delightfully twisted and full of anti-heroes and grimness/nastiness aplenty for those who don't like their fantasy too terribly sanitized (like I said, he does try too hard sometimes to be &quot;grim-dark&quot;, but damn it all if I don't like it a bunch).And a big hearty &quot;hear, hear!!&quot; for [MENTION=371]Hand of Evil[/MENTION] for mentioning Karl E. Wagner's &quot;Kane&quot;; some truly fine dark fantasy/sword-and-sorcery with a wonderfully amoral/downright evil protagonist.&nbsp; The good doctor Wagner is much missed (his horror fiction is also exquisite, but this is a fantasy list....).Cheers,Colin</blockquote>

[QUOTE="13garth13, post: 6354773, member: 16979"] Richard K. Morgan's "The Steel Remains", and the sequel "The Cold Commands" (haven't read the third one yet; not even sure if it is out)....a little too in-your-face with some of the more....uh......alternative approaches to sex and violence :p, but delightfully twisted and full of anti-heroes and grimness/nastiness aplenty for those who don't like their fantasy too terribly sanitized (like I said, he does try too hard sometimes to be "grim-dark", but damn it all if I don't like it a bunch). And a big hearty "hear, hear!!" for [MENTION=371]Hand of Evil[/MENTION] for mentioning Karl E. Wagner's "Kane"; some truly fine dark fantasy/sword-and-sorcery with a wonderfully amoral/downright evil protagonist. The good doctor Wagner is much missed (his horror fiction is also exquisite, but this is a fantasy list....). Cheers, Colin [/QUOTE]

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