Part of our salute to Gary Gygax:

My first post in the salute to Gary Gygax was a discussion of his novel, The Anubis Murders.  So I thought it fitting to end our ten days of Gary Gygax and D&D posts with a mention of what appears to be his final novel.

I saw a news story on SFGate that Paizo’s Planet Stories is publishing a “lost” Gygax novel.  The novel, named The Infernal Sorceress, features new characters (”the handsome swordsman Raker and his cunning daggerman Ferret”) but is set in the Aerth world of previous Gygax novels.

When he responded that he had an entire novel ready to go, I almost fell out of my chair.  Infernal Sorceress is Gary’s eleventh and final novel, produced when he was at the top of his game as a novelist.

Hopefully the “lost novel” angle will lend some cachet to the book. You can check out the cover art and read a description of the novel; it looks like it will be available in August.

I’ve read a couple of other fantasy novels since I read Anubis Murders and it’s “held up” remarkably well in my mind.  So, I’m happy that I have ten more Gygax novels out there to read instead of nine.

Well, we hope you enjoyed some of the posts we did in honor of Gary Gygax and D&D.  We actually thought of many more topics for this salute than we had time to write.  But, of course, just because this little salute is over doesn’t mean we won’t be discussing D&D from time to time and covering other topics that can be traced directly to Gygax and D&D.  The amazing thing about Gary Gygax and the game he co-created is that, as we continue to post on any geeky topic, we’ll often still be saluting him in one way or another.