Flashing swords and fearsome magicks . . . high adventure and wondrous wizardry . . . dread monsters and vast rewards . . . Tales of swashbuckling sword and sorcery at their best offer keen wit, ingenious perception, freewheeling imagination, and canny invention. From its swashbuckling beginnings
Swords Against Darkness
β Scribed by Paula Guran
- Book ID
- 111183204
- Publisher
- Prime Books
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 455 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781607014867
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β¦ Synopsis
Flashing swords and fearsome magicks . . . high adventure and wondrous wizardry . . . dread monsters and vast rewards . . .Β
Tales of swashbuckling sword and sorcery at their best offer keen wit, ingenious perception, freewheeling imagination, and canny invention. From its swashbuckling beginnings of good versus evil battles to clashes of more nuanced principles set in complex settings to havoc shaped by grittier perspectives, ambiguous morality, deep history and expansive worldbuildingβreaders continue to be thrilled by the exploits of great warriors and mighty mages.
Swords Against Darkness: an epic anthology of short stories and novellas from classic to modern, each tale a memorable vision from masters andΒ mistresses of heroic fantasy past and present!
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Foreword to the Fifth Volume of Swords Against Darkness by Andrew J. Offutt The Mouths of Light by Ramsey Campbell Perfidious Amber by Tanith Lee Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds by Simon R. Green Rats by Robert Fester The Forging by Robin Kincaid Hungry Grass by Keith Taylor The Tale of the C
7 β’ Foreword - In Two Parts β’ (1979) β’ essay by Andrew J. Offutt 12 β’ Mai-Kulala β’ (1977) β’ shortstory by Charles R. Saunders 31 β’ At the Sign of the Brass Breast β’ (1979) β’ novelette by Jefferson P. Swycaffer [as by Jeff P. Swycaffer ] 60 β’ The Reaping β’ (1979) β’ shortstory by Ardath Mayhar 73