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Niall of the Far Travels Collected

All 10 short stories have finally been collected. Originally published in Dragon magazine, this was Gardner F. Fox's final attempt of capturing the magic that is Sword & Sorcery. Before creating Niall, Fox had created two other Conan clones, Kothar and Kyrik, in addition to the suspiciously named Crom the Barbarian for comic books. Mr. Fox was well regarded by Gary Gygax and he's listed in Gygax's Appendix N. Appendix N was a list of authors that inspired Mr. Gygax to create Dungeons & Dragons. These short stories are all Sword & Sorcery classics. He came into Angalore from the eastern deserts, a big man wearing a kaunake of spotted fur over his linkmail, his legs bare above warboots trimmed with miniver, with a sense of his own doom riding him. Niall of the Far Travels had not wanted to come to Angalore, for an old seeress had prophesied that he would be taken from this world by demons, should those warboots carry him into that ancient, brooding city. Yet he had come here because his fate had so decreed. He was a mercenary, a sell-sword, a barbarian out of the forested mountains of Norumbria. A wanderer by nature, he earned his keep wherever he went by the might of his sword-arm, by his skill with weapons. He feared no living thing, man or animal, though the thought of demons put a coldness down his spine. Now he paused on the crest of a hill and stared at the city. Massive it was, and old, so old that some men said it had been here since men had first learned to walk upright. It lay between the river and the desert over which the caravans came from Sensanall to the south and Urgrik to the north. Ships lay in the little harbor that was formed by the river, riding easily to the lift and fall of its tides You can find more vintage paperback and pulp stories at the Gardner Francis Fox Library.Read more

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