Manly fantasy novels (Recommendations)

[sailormanttt]

i love the manly fantasy genre. i want to read fantasy novels about manly men doing manly things around other men. i also want it to be set in a secondary fantasy world. thanks for reading and thanks in advance for your answers.

 

[hitmouse]

Just to avoid confusion, are you looking for gay fantasy specifically?

 

[BAYLOR]

Also confused.

 

[chongjasmine]

What in particular are you looking for?

 

[Elentarri]

First thing that came to mind is Conan the Barbarian* and variations? Muscly man doing man stuff like waving swords around, saving damsels in distress, and murdering monsters... in apparently an all-male group (what they do between the bed rolls is no one else's business but theirs!)? You know... those really old fantasy novels where there is a He-Man type figure in metal underpants waving a sword around. Is this correct, Sailormanttt?

*I've never read Conan so this might be wrong?

 

[Danny McG]

Gor

 

[Alex The G and T]

The Black Company series by Glen Cook.

(I guess. He never came back to clarify what the hell he was talking about. There is no buggery, if that's what he wants.)

 

[pogopossum]

Side tracking.
Do you mean buggery like this/

If it's violent manly fantasy figures, the Bloodsworn trilogy by John Gwynne has enough blood, death and fantasy violence for anyone. Not always perpetrated by males.

 

[BAYLOR]

First thing that came to mind is Conan the Barbarian* and variations? Muscly man doing man stuff like waving swords around, saving damsels in distress, and murdering monsters... in apparently an all-male group (what they do between the bed rolls is no one else's business but theirs!)? You know... those really old fantasy novels where there is a He-Man type figure in metal underpants waving a sword around. Is this correct, Sailormanttt?

*I've never read Conan so this might be wrong?

Never read Conan?!Oh No !

.Try the three volume dl ray editions
1. The Coming go Conan
2. The Bloody Crown of Conan
3. The Conquering Sword of Conan

You won' t be disappointed.

 

[hitmouse]

Gor

On the right track but I think the op was looking for more pecs and less baps.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Kane The Mystic Swordsman Saga by Karl Edward Wagner The main protagonist Kane is warrior and sorcerer , Immortal and amoral heroic villain/antihero , Its five book high octane Dark Heroic fantasy series.
1. Bloodstone
2. Darkness Weaves
3. Dark Crusade
4. Death Angels Shadow
5. Nightwinds

 

[Nephii]

No recs but I suddenly had 'We're men, we're men in tights' on a loop in my head when I read this.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Kagan the Damed Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry
1. Kagan the Damned
2. Son Of the Poison Rose
3. The Dragon In Winter

 

[BAYLOR]

No recs but I suddenly had 'We're men, we're men in tights' on a loop in my head when I read this.

Try Silverlock by John Myers Myers and The Complete Enchanter by L Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Try Silverlock by John Myers Myers and The Complete Enchanter by L Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt.

Oh, that reminds me of The Hounds of Skaith. And the rest of a real he-man series about the arousing adventures of Erik John Stark. By Leigh Brackett. Kickin' Ass and avoiding buggery!

 

[-K2-]

If someone is interested in reading R.E. Howard's Conan, Kull, Dark Agnes and so on as well as several classics now in the public domain, transcribed and many translated into English, feel free to PM me for a link to an online PDF, ePub, plaintxt library. (I say PM me since I'm unsure of how SFFChrons views such offsite links. If even the offer is unacceptable, please delete my post Moderators).
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