Re: (ReacTor) Sweet Revenge: Five Works Featuring Vendettas

In article <slrnvv8g7i.22kq.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

On 2025-04-07, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
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Sweet Revenge: Five Works Featuring Vendettas
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Forgive and forget? Not bloody likely...
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https://reactormag.com/sweet-revenge-five-works-featuring-vendettas/

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Jack Vance's _Demon Princes_ novels.
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Douglas Hill's _Last Legionary_ novels, I guess?  I don't quite
remember if Keill Randor is motivated by revenge, or the purity of
his heart to fight evil, or both.
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Since you're including audiovisual media: The _Conan the Barbarian_
(1982) movie.
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Sherwood Smith  Dave Trowbridge's "Exordium", a wonderful series I don't
believe I've ever successfully persuaded another soul to read.

https://www.sherwoodsmith.net/other-things/exordium/

Exordium
Background

On August 13, 1977 Dave Trowbridge and I sat down at his
cool little carved table, with wine and other substances
to inspire us, candles to write by, and began the Exordium
saga. What a long, strange trip it's been!

In 1980, it was a six hour mini-series that very nearly
sold to HBO. Our "elevator pitch" for our five-book space
opera: Exordium is a cross between Star Wars and Dangerous
Liaisons with a touch of the Three Stooges.


The Phoenix in Flight newly rewritten edition 2011:

Revised with added material in this edition. Brandon
nyr-Arkad, dissolute youngest son of the ruler of the
Thousand Suns, abandons the life of Service planned for him
and flees into the lawless Rift. Only slowly does he discover
that the world he rejected now lies in smoking ruins as the
ritual vengeance of Jerrode Eusabian against Brandon's
father, twenty years in preparation, culminates in an
explosion of interstellar violence. With both his brothers
dead and his father the Panarch imprisoned, Brandon becomes
the Panarchy's last hope.
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