Flashing Swords!
Flashing Swords! was a series of fantasy anthologies published by Dell Books from 1973 to 1981 under the editorship of Lin Carter. It showcased the heroic fantasy work of the members of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a somewhat informal literary group active from the 1960s to the 1980s, of which Carter was the guiding force. Most of the important sword and sorcery writers at the time of the group’s founding were members; later, membership was extended to other fantasy authors.
The Flashing Swords! series provides a cross-section of the heroic fantasy of the period. Carter and SAGA also sponsored The Gandalf Award from 1974-1981. With the collapse of Carter’s health in the 1980s the anthology series, the Gandalf award, and likely SAGA itself all went into abeyance.
An interesting precursor of the series was Swords Against Tomorrow, edited by Robert Hoskins (Signet Books, 1970), an anthology which included pieces by four of the eight SAGA members of that time.
Contents
In all, twenty-three stories were published in the series, all of them for the first time. These included two "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" stories by Fritz Leiber (in #1 and #3), two "Dying Earth" stories by Jack Vance (in vols. 1 and 4), the first two parts of the novel The Merman's Children by Poul Anderson (also in 1 and 4), two "Amalric the Mangod" stories by Lin Carter (in 1 and 3), a "Pusad" tale and the first part of the novel The Incorporated Knight by L. Sprague de Camp (in 2 and 3, respectively), two "Elric of Melniboné" stories by Michael Moorcock (in 2 and 4), two "Witch World" stories by Andre Norton (in 2 and 3), two "Brak the Barbarian" stories by John Jakes (in 2 and 4), one story by Avram Davidson (in vol. 3), a "Deryni" story by Katherine Kurtz (in 4), a "Dilvish" story by Roger Zelazny (in 5), a story by C. J. Cherryh (in 5), a story by Diane Duane (in 5), an "Ebenezum" story by Craig Shaw Gardner (in 5), and a story by Tanith Lee (in 5).
The series
- Flashing Swords! #1 (1973)
- Flashing Swords! #2 (1973)
- Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards(1976)
- Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians(1977)
- Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers (1981)
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| | | | | | The Mysteries of Mars |
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- The Flame of Iridar (1967)
- The Man Who Loved Mars (1973)
- The Valley Where Time Stood Still (1974)
- The City Outside the World (1977)
- Down to a Sunless Sea (1984)
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| Short works |
- "The Martian El Dorado of Parker Wintley" (1976)
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| | | Zanthodon series |
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| Novels |
- Journey to the Underground World (1979)
- Zanthodon (1980)
- Hurok of the Stone Age (1981)
- Darya of the Bronze Age (1981)
- Eric of Zanthodon (1982)
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| | | Zarkon series |
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- The Nemesis of Evil (1975)
- Invisible Death (1975)
- The Volcano Ogre (1976)
- The Earth-Shaker (1982)
- Horror Wears Blue (1987)
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| | | Minor SF series |
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| Great Imperium |
- The Man Without a Planet (1966)
- Star Rogue (1970)
- Outworlder (1971)
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| Hautley Quicksilver |
- The Thief of Thoth (1968)
- The Purloined Planet (1969)
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| | | Thongor series |
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- "Thieves of Zangabal" (1969)
- "Keeper of the Emerald Flame" (1970)
- "Black Hawk of Valkarth" (1974)
- "Diombar's Song of the Last Battle" (1975)
- "The City in the Jewel" (1975)
- "Black Moonlight" (1976)
- "Demon of the Snows" (1980)
- "The Creature in the Crypt" (2012)
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| Short works |
- "Exile of Atlantis" (1967)
- "Black Abyss" (1967)
- "Riders Beyond the Sunrise" (1967)
- "Wizard and Warrior" (1967)
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| | | The Gondwane Epic |
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| Novels |
- The Warrior of World's End (1974)
- The Enchantress of World's End (1975)
- The Immortal of World's End (1976)
- The Barbarian of World's End (1977)
- The Pirate of World's End (1978)
- Giant of World's End (1969)
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| | | Terra Magica |
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| Novels |
- Kesrick (1982)
- Dragonrouge (1984)
- Mandricardo (1987)
- Callipygia (1988)
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| | | The Chronicles of Kylix |
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| Short works |
- "Vault of Silence" (1970)
- "The Higher Heresies of Oolimar" (1973)
- "The Curious Custom of the Turjan Seraad" (1976)
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| | | Tara of the Twilight |
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| Short works |
- "For the Blood is the Life" (1984)
- "The Love of the Sea" (1984)
- "Pale Shadow" (1985)
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| | | Simrana the Dream World |
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| Short works |
- "The Gods of Niom Parma" (1966/70)
- "The Whelming of Oom" (1969)
- "Zingazar" (1971)
- "How Sargoth Lay Siege to Zaremm" (1972)
- "The Laughter of Han" (1982)
- "The Benevolence of Yib" (1987)
- "The Thievery of Yish" (1988)
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- "The Red Offering" (1997)
- "The Dweller in the Tomb" (1971)
- "The Thing in the Pit" (1980)
- "Out of the Ages" (1975)
- "The Horror in the Gallery" (1976/97)
- "The Winfield Heritance" (1981)
- "Perchance to Dream" (1988)
- "Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods" (1988)
- "Something in the Moonlight" (1980)
- "The Fishers from Outside" (1988)
- "Behind the Mask" (1987)
- "The Strange Doom of Enos Harker" (1989/2001)
- "The Bell in the Tower" (1989)
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- "The Tired Tailor of Oz" (2001)
- "The Awful Ogre of Ogodown" (2004)
- "High TImes on Tip Top Mountain" (2004)
- "The Wooden Soldier of Oz" (2004)
- "No Joy in Mudville" (2004)
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| Collections |
- The Merry Mountaineer of Oz (2004)
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| | | Other speculative fiction |
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| Novels |
- The Star Magicians (1966)
- Destination: Saturn (1967)
- Tower at the Edge of Time (1968)
- Lost World of Time (1969)
- Tower of the Medusa (1969)
- The Black Star (1973)
- Time War (1974)
- Found Wanting (1985)
- The Black Pharaoh (2007)
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| Short works |
- "The Castle beyond the World" (1950)
- "Masters of the Metropolis" (1956) with Randall Garrett
- "The Slitherer from the Slime" (1958)
- "Uncollected Works" (1965)
- "Crown of Stars" (1966)
- "Owlstone" (1969)
- "Keru" (1969)
- "Harvey Hodges, Veebelfetzer" (1969)
- "Under the Eaves" (1969)
- "A Guide to the City" (1969)
- "Azlon" (1969)
- "The Mantichore" (1969)
- "The Seal of Zaon Sathla" (1970)
- "Shaggai" (1971)
- "The Sword of Power" (1971)
- "The Double Tower" (1973)
- "The Utmost Abomination" (1973)
- "The Scroll of Morloc" (1975)
- "In the Vale of Pnath" (1975)
- "The Tower of Time" (1975)
- "The Twelve Wizards of Ong" (1976)
- "People of the Dragon" (1976)
- "The Stairs in the Crypt" (1976)
- "The Pillars of Hell" (1977)
- "A Farmer on the Clyde" (1978)
- "Rhian and Garanhir" (1979)
- "Zurvan's Saint" (1980)
- "The World Beneath the World" (1980)
- "Dreams in the House of Weir" (1980)
- "The Descent Into the Abyss" (1980)
- "The Light From the Pole" (1980)
- "The Offering" (1982)
- "The Vengeance of Yig" (1983)
- "History & Chronology of the Book of Eibon" (1984)
- "The Necronomicon: Concerning Them from Outside" (1984)
- "Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus: The Incantation of the Elder Sign" (1984)
- "The Feaster from the Stars" (1984)
- "The Goblinry of Ais" (1985)
- "Geydelle's Protective" (1985)
- "The Acolyte of the Flame" (1985)
- "The Stone from Mnar" (1985)
- "Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom" (1988)
- "From the Archives of the Moon" (1988)
- "How Ghuth Would Have Hunted the Silth" (1988)
- "The Secret in the Parchment" (1988)
- "How Her Doom Came Down at Last on Adrazoon" (1988)
- "Black Stars in the Skulls of Doom" (1988)
- "Dead of Night" (1988)
- "Carcosa Story about Hali" (1989)
- "Terror Wears Yellow" (1989)
- "A Bottle of Djinn" (1989)
- "Sweet Tooth" (1989)
- "The Necronomicon, Book II: The Book of Preparations" (1990)
- "The Necronomicon, Book III: The Book of the Gates" (1990)
- "The Necronomicon, Book IV: The Book of Dismissals" (1990)
- "King in Yellow: A Tragedy in Verse" (1993)
- "Cthulhu & Co." (1997)
- "The Light in the East" (1997)
- "Curse of the Black Pharaoh" (1997)
- "Khymyrium (excerpt)" (1997/98)
- "The Demon Star" (1998)
- "The Life of Eibon According to Cyron of Varaad" (2002)
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- Sandalwood and Jade (1951)
- Galleon of Dream (1955)
- A Letter to Judith (1950)
- Dreams from R'lyeh (1975)
- The Intelligent Child's Own Book of Interesting and Instructive (1987/88)
- Limericks from Yuggoth (1983/88)
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