The Collected Chronicles of Red Sonja

by Smith, David C.; Tierney, Richard L.

• ISBN13: 9780316605229
• ISBN10: 0316605220
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2027-01-19
• Publisher: Orbit
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Summary

All six original Red Sonja novels, co-written by sword-and-sorcery legends David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney, available now in one volume for the first time.

DISCOVER THE LEGEND. REVISIT THE GLORY.

Since her introduction to the Hyborian Kingdoms, Red Sonja has become one of the most iconic characters in fantasy, spawning dozens of comics, novels, and multiple live-action films. Now, almost fifty years later, the original novels are collected for the first time in one omnibus edition. Follow Red Sonja’s tale from sorcerous start to sword-slashing finish, and see, in the mists of legend, how the she-devil with a sword was born…

Author Biography

David C. Smith was born August 10, 1952, in Youngstown, Ohio. He is a freelance medical editor and the author of 29 novels, numerous short stories and articles, and the award-winning Robert E. Howard: A Literary Biography. He lives in Palatine, Illinois, with his wife, Janine, and their daughter, Lily.

Richard L. Tierney (August 7, 1936–February 1, 2022) was an author, poet, and scholar in the fields of heroic fantasy and modern fantastic fiction. His stories of Simon of Gitta (The Scroll of Thoth and the novels The Gardens of Lucellus, with Glen Rahman, and The Drums of Chaos) enlarged the genre of sword-and-sorcery fiction, while his acclaimed essay “The Derleth Mythos” (1972) served as a corrective to early misinterpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s philosophical cosmicism. His volume Collected Poems was published by Arkham House in 1981. While working as a foresterin the U.S. Forestry Service (1958–1971), Tierney studied Mesoamerican archaeology, particularly in the Yucatan, learned Spanish, and researched the Nahuatl culture and language, of which he made use in his fiction. He was awarded the Minnesota Fantasy Award in 1993 and in 2010 was nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Association Grand Master award.