Thanks for the tip!
My favorite bookseller recommended Joe Abercrombie to me, but his works just seemed like they'd be too "grim-dark" for my taste, I'll take a second look.
Incidentally, Joanna Russ in her 1967 short story "Bluestocking" has her heroine Alyx reminisce about Fritz Leiber's character "Fafhrd" (an old favorite of mine), and Leiber in his 1968 story "The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar" includes an appearance by Joanna Russ's heroine Alyx!
Yes, old Sci-Fi/Swords & Sorcery had stuff like the "Gor" novels (no links on purpose), but I think it was also for more "inclusive"/"progressive" than it gets credit for.