Quote Originally Posted by Irulan View Post
The distinction is important to me because I won't read the sword/sorcery stuff at all.
I know there IS a distinction, and it's a significant one, but "Who Fears Death" by Nnedi Okorafor and "Throne of the Crescent Moon" by Saladin Ahmed - just to name two I've really enjoyed recently - are about as far from Tolkien as you can get and still have magic and battles without firearms...