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series23 books2005

Sword and sorcery, set in east asia.

“A collection of stories about an impoverished nobleman in medieval Japan fighting monsters and investigating supernatural problems.”
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Brak the BarbarianSeries

series16 books1963

completed

Sword and sorcery, about quests, set in secondary world.

“John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian follows his own wandering barbarian swordsman, Brak, through sword-and-sorcery adventures modeled on the pulp tradition of the 1930s and '40s but original to Jakes rather than adapted from an earlier author.”
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DamianoSeries

series3 books1984

Emotional in tone, about angels, set in europe and renaissance and early modern.

“R. A. MacAvoy's trilogy continues through Damiano's Lute and Raphael, later collected as A Trio for Lute, and was praised for its light touch with small-scale magic set against real cruelty.”
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