David Gemmell Legend Award Short List
The short list for the new David Gemmell Legend Award has been announced. The award is given to “a work written in the ‘spirit’ of the late, great David Gemmell, a true Master of Heroic Fantasy.”
Check out the nominees after the jump . . .
Book Review – Quest For Lost Heroes
Author: David Gemmell Cover Artist: Luis Royo Publisher: Del Rey Binding: Paperback MassMarket Publication Date: May 1995 I am a huge sword and sorcery fan. I grew up reading the mythical stories of Howard’s Conan , Moorcock’s Elric , Leiber’s Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser , and Moore’s Jirel of Joiry . The staging of [...]
Book Review – The Legend of Deathwalker
Author: David Gemmell Publisher: Bantam Binding: Paperback Publication Date: February 1996 The Legend of Deathwalker is another offering from author David Gemmell taking place in his Drenai setting, again chronicling the continuing, or perhaps more aptly put the past adventures and deeds of Gemmell’s most popular creation Druss, whom he both introduced, and depicted his [...]
Book Review – White Wolf
Author: David Gemmell Publisher: Del Rey Binding: Paperback Publication Date: April 2003 White Wolf is another David Gemmell offering from his Drenai setting. White Wolf is yet another story that can be described a heroic fantasy penned by Gemmell, a term that is becoming synonymous with the author for two reasons. One, Gemmell, in my [...]
Book Review – Ravenheart
Author: David Gemmell Publisher: Bantam Binding: Paperback Publication Date: April 2001 I have been on a bit of David Gemmell binge of late, and my most recent read Ravenheart, the third installment in Gemmell’s Rigante series continues to add to my wonder how anyone can think of his Drenai novel Legend to be the example [...]
Book Review – Ironhand’s Daughter
Author: David Gemmell Publisher: Del Rey Binding: Paperback Publication Date: February 1995 Admittedly, I haven’t read as much of David Gemmell as I have some other authors, my knowledge of his work consisting of perhaps a half dozen, or perhaps eight of his novels, I would have to say Ironhand’s Daughter represents the best written [...]
Book Review – Legend
Author: David Gemmell Publisher: Del Rey Binding: Paperback Publication Date: July 1986 Legend is the first book of David Gemmell’s Drenai saga, and the moniker of the central character Druss, and chronicles the events around the last stand of the most renowned warrior in the land. Gemmell dictates a fast, completely linear, direct pace in [...]
