Flashing Swords! 1
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Author | Lin Carter (editor) |
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Cover artist | Frank Frazetta |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Flashing Swords! |
Genre | Fantasy short stories |
Publisher | Nelson Doubleday |
Publication date
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1973 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | xiv, 175 pp |
Followed by | Flashing Swords! #2 |
Flashing Swords! #1 is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in hardcover by Nelson Doubleday in April 1973 as a selection in its Science Fiction Book Club, and in paperback by Dell Books in July of the same year. The first British edition was issued by Mayflower in 1974.[1]
The book collects four heroic fantasy novelettes by members of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a somewhat informal literary group of fantasy authors active from the 1960s to the 1980s, of which Carter was also a member and guiding force, together with a general introduction and introductions to the individual stories by the editor.
Contents
- "Introduction: Of Swordsmen and Sorcerers" by Lin Carter
- "The Sadness of the Executioner" (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) by Fritz Leiber
- "Morreion" (Dying Earth) by Jack Vance
- "The Merman's Children" by Poul Anderson
- "The Higher Heresies of Oolimar" (Amalric the Mangod) by Lin Carter
Notes
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- ↑ Flashing Swords! 1 title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database