Flashing Swords! 1
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| Flashing Swords! #1 | |
 Cover art from the first paperback edition |
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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(s) | Fantasy short stories |
| Publisher | Nelson Doubleday |
| Publication date | 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 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.
[edit] 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
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