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Sword and sorcery

Index Sword and sorcery

Sword and sorcery (S&S) is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures. [1]

110 relations: A. Merritt, Alexandre Dumas, Andre Norton, Andrew J. Offutt, Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, Barry Windsor-Smith, Barsoom, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Gate (magazine), Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Charles R. Saunders, Clark Ashton Smith, Cloak and dagger, Conan (comics), Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Barbarian (1982 film), Counterstereotype, Critical theory, Damsel in distress, Dark Agnes de Chastillon, David C. Smith (author), David Drake, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Elric of Melniboné, Eric Rücker Eddison, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Fantasy, Fantasy tropes, Flashing Swords!, Fritz Leiber, Genre, H. Bedford-Jones, H. Rider Haggard, Harold Lamb, Heroic fantasy, High fantasy, Historical fiction, Homer, Hyperborean cycle, Imaro, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Jirel of Joiry, Joe Abercrombie, Kane (fantasy), Karl Edward Wagner, Kull of Atlantis, L. Sprague de Camp, Lankhmar, ..., Leigh Brackett, Lin Carter, Magic in fiction, Magician (fantasy), Manly Wade Wellman, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Matter of Britain, Michael Moorcock, Miguel de Cervantes, Odyssey, One Thousand and One Nights, Peplum (film genre), Picaresque novel, Planetary romance, Poul Anderson, Protagonist, Pulp magazine, Queen of the Black Coast, Rafael Sabatini, Ramsey Campbell, Red Nails, Red Sonja, Red Sonja (film), Return to Nevèrÿon (series), Richard Fleischer, Richard L. Tierney, Rinconete y Cortadillo, Robert Asprin, Robert E. Howard, Romance (love), Roy Thomas, Saga, Samuel R. Delany, Scaramouche (novel), Science Fantasy (magazine), Scott Lynch, Seville, Steven Erikson, Supernatural, Swashbuckler, Sword and planet, Sword and Sorceress series, Swords Against Darkness, Swords and Sorcery, Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, Talbot Mundy, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The Shadow of the Vulture, The Ship of Ishtar, The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, The Tale of Satampra Zeiros, The Three Musketeers, The Worm Ouroboros, Thieves' World, Walter Scott, Weird fiction, Weird Tales, World Fantasy Award, Zebra Books, Zothique. Expand index (60 more) »

A. Merritt

Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884 – August 21, 1943) – known by his byline, A. Merritt – was an American Sunday magazine editor and a writer of fantastic fiction.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père ("father"), was a French writer.

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Andre Norton

Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction.

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Andrew J. Offutt

Andrew Jefferson Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

The Ballantine Adult Fantasy series was an imprint of American publisher Ballantine Books.

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Barry Windsor-Smith

Barry Windsor-Smith (born Barry Smith, 25 May 1949) is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known work has been produced in the United States.

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Barsoom

Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Beneath Ceaseless Skies (BCS) is a fantasy adventure online magazine published in the United States by Firkin Press.

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Black Gate (magazine)

Black Gate was a glossy fantasy magazine and published by New Epoch Press.

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Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard

Blood & Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard is a biography of the writer Robert E. Howard by Mark Finn, first published in a trade paperback edition in November 2006 by MonkeyBrain Books.

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C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore.

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Charles R. Saunders

Charles R. Saunders also credited as Charles Saunders (born July 12, 1946) is an African-American author and journalist currently living in Canada.

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Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

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Cloak and dagger

"Cloak and dagger" refers to situations involving intrigue, secrecy, espionage, or mystery.

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Conan (comics)

Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard was first adapted into comics in 1952 in Mexico.

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Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp-fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (cartoon and live-action), video games, role-playing games, and other media.

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Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)

Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 American fantasy adventure film directed and co-written by John Milius.

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Counterstereotype

A counterstereotype is an idea or object that goes against a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude, or uncritical judgment.

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Critical theory

Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

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Damsel in distress

The damsel-in-distress, persecuted maiden, or princess in jeopardy is a classic theme in world literature, art, film and video games.

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Dark Agnes de Chastillon

Dark Agnes de Chastillon (also known as Agnes de Chastillon, Dark Agnes, Agnes de la Fere and The Sword Woman) is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard and the protagonist of three stories set in 16th Century France, which were not printed until a long time after the author's death.

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David C. Smith (author)

David C. Smith (born August 10, 1952) is an American author of fantasy, horror, and suspense fiction, medical editor, and essayist.

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David Drake

David Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.

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Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany.

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Elric of Melniboné

Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by Michael Moorcock and the protagonist of a series of sword and sorcery stories taking place on an alternate Earth.

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Eric Rücker Eddison

Eric Rücker Eddison, CB, CMG (24 November 1882 – 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant and author, writing epic fantasy novels under the name E. R. Eddison.

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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are two sword-and-sorcery heroes appearing in stories written by American author Fritz Leiber.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Fantasy tropes

Fantasy tropes are a specific type of literary tropes that occur in fantasy fiction.

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Flashing Swords!

Flashing Swords! is a series of fantasy anthologies published by Dell Books from 1973 to 1981 under the editorship of Lin Carter.

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Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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H. Bedford-Jones

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908.

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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

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Harold Lamb

Harold Albert Lamb (September 1, 1892 – April 9, 1962) was an American historian, screenwriter, short story writer, and novelist.

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Heroic fantasy

"Heroic fantasy" is the name I have given to a subgenre of fiction, otherwise called the "sword-and-sorcery" story.

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High fantasy

High fantasy or epic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, defined either by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Hyperborean cycle

The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea.

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Imaro

Imaro is a sword and sorcery novel written by Charles R. Saunders, and published by DAW Books in 1981.

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Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born January 6, 1950John Clute and John Grant, "", in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, pp. 832-833, Orbit, London / St Martin’s Press, New York (1997).) is an American author and editor of fantasy and horror fiction and poetry.

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Jirel of Joiry

Jirel of Joiry is a fictional character created by American writer C. L. Moore, who appeared in a series of sword and sorcery stories published first in the pulp horror/fantasy magazine Weird Tales.

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Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie (born 31 December 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor.

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Kane (fantasy)

Kane is a literary character created by Karl Edward Wagner in a series of sword and sorcery novels and short stories first published between 1970 and 1985.

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Karl Edward Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 14 October 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist.

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Kull of Atlantis

Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by writer Robert E. Howard.

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L. Sprague de Camp

Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November 1907 – 6 November 2000), better known as L. Sprague de Camp, was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction.

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Lankhmar

Lankhmar is a fictional city in the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber.

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Leigh Brackett

Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera.

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Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic.

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Magic in fiction

Magic in fiction is the endowment of characters or objects in works of fiction with powers that do not naturally occur in the real world.

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Magician (fantasy)

An enchanter, enchantress, mage, magician, sorcerer, sorceress, warlock, witch, or wizard, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources.

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Manly Wade Wellman

Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (June 3, 1930 – September 25, 1999) was an American author of fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, and science fantasy novels, and is best known for the Arthurian fiction novel The Mists of Avalon, and the Darkover series.

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Matter of Britain

The Matter of Britain is the body of Medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain, and sometimes Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur.

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Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed)23 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey (Ὀδύσσεια Odýsseia, in Classical Attic) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights (ʾAlf layla wa-layla) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Peplum (film genre)

The peplum film (pepla plural), also known as sword-and-sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made historical or Biblical epics (costume dramas) that dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by Eurospy films and Spaghetti Westerns.

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Picaresque novel

The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for "rogue" or "rascal") is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by their wits in a corrupt society.

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Planetary romance

Planetary romance is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one or more exotic alien planets, characterized by distinctive physical and cultural backgrounds.

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Poul Anderson

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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Queen of the Black Coast

"Queen of the Black Coast" is one of the original short stories about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine c. May 1934.

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Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels.

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Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946 in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years.

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Red Nails

"Red Nails" is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard.

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Red Sonja

Red Sonja is a fictional character, a sword-and-sorcery comic-book heroine created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor Smith for Marvel Comics in 1973, partially based on Robert E. Howard's own creation 'Red Sonya of Rogatino' a female swashbuckler from his 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture" and to a certain degree also based on Howard's character Dark Agnes de Chastillon.

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Red Sonja (film)

Red Sonja is a 1985 Dutch-American sword and sorcery action film directed by Richard Fleischer.

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Return to Nevèrÿon (series)

Return to Nevèrÿon is a series of eleven sword and sorcery stories by Samuel R. Delany, originally published in four volumes during the years 1979-1987.

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Richard Fleischer

Richard O. Fleischer (December 8, 1916 – March 25, 2006) was an American film director known for such movies as The Narrow Margin (1952), Fantastic Voyage (1966) and Soylent Green (1973).

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Richard L. Tierney

Richard Louis Tierney (born August 7, 1936) is an American writer, poet and scholar of H. P. Lovecraft.

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Rinconete y Cortadillo

Rinconete y Cortadillo (or Novela de Rinconete y Cortadillo) is one of the twelve short stories included in Novelas Ejemplares, by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

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Robert Asprin

Robert Lynn Asprin (June 28, 1946 – May 22, 2008) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.

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Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.

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Romance (love)

Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.

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Roy Thomas

Roy William Thomas Jr."Roy Thomas Checklist" Alter Ego Vol.

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Saga

Sagas are stories mostly about ancient Nordic and Germanic history, early Viking voyages, the battles that took place during the voyages, and migration to Iceland and of feuds between Icelandic families.

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Samuel R. Delany

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Scaramouche (novel)

Scaramouche is an historical novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1921.

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Science Fantasy (magazine)

Science Fantasy, which also appeared under the titles Impulse and SF Impulse, was a British fantasy and science fiction magazine, launched in 1950 by Nova Publications as a companion to Nova's New Worlds.

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Scott Lynch

Scott Lynch (born April 2, 1978) is an American fantasy author who wrote the Gentleman Bastard series of novels.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville, Spain.

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Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson (born October 7, 1959) is the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist.

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Supernatural

The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra "above" + naturalis "natural", first used: 1520–1530 AD) is that which exists (or is claimed to exist), yet cannot be explained by laws of nature.

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Swashbuckler

A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword, acrobatics and chivalric ideals.

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Sword and planet

Sword and planet is a subgenre of science fantasy that features rousing adventure stories set on other planets, and usually featuring humans as protagonists.

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Sword and Sorceress series

The Sword and Sorceress series is a series of fantasy anthologies originally edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and originally published by DAW Books.

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Swords Against Darkness

Swords Against Darkness is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Andrew J. Offutt.

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Swords and Sorcery

For the combination table-top and role-playing game by SPI, see Swords & Sorcery (SPI).

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Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America

The Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America or SAGA was an informal group of American fantasy authors active from the 1960s through the 1980s, noted for their contributions to the "Sword and Sorcery" kind of heroic fantasy, itself a subgenre of fantasy.

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Talbot Mundy

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 23 April 1879 – 5 August 1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The Shadow of the Vulture

"The Shadow of the Vulture" is a short story by American writer Robert E. Howard, first published in The Magic Carpet Magazine, January 1934.

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The Ship of Ishtar

The Ship of Ishtar is a fantasy novel by A. Merritt.

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The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others.

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The Tale of Satampra Zeiros

"The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" is a short story written in 1929 by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Hyperborean cycle, and first published in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales.

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas.

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The Worm Ouroboros

The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by English writer Eric Rücker Eddison, first published in 1922.

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Thieves' World

Thieves' World is a shared world fantasy series created by Robert Lynn Asprin in 1978.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Weird fiction

Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Weird Tales

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in March 1923.

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World Fantasy Award

The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year.

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Zebra Books

Zebra Books is an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp. As the company's flagship imprint and its only until the late 80s, it currently publishes women's fiction, romantic suspense and bestselling historical, paranormal and contemporary romance.

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Zothique

Zothique is an imagined future continent in a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_and_sorcery

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