- Flashing Swords! 1
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name = Flashing Swords! #1
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image_caption = Cover art from the first paperback edition
author =Lin Carter (editor)
cover_artist =Frank Frazetta
country =United States
language = English
series =Flashing Swords!
genre = Fantasyshort stories
publisher =Nelson Doubleday
release_date =1973
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media_type = Print (Hardcover )
pages = xiv, 175 pp
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followed_by = Flashing Swords! #2"Flashing Swords! #1" is an
anthology offantasy stories, edited byLin Carter . It was first published in hardcover byNelson Doubleday in April1973 as a selection in itsScience Fiction Book Club , and in paperback byDell Books in July of the same year.The book collects four
heroic fantasy novelettes by members of theSwordsmen 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 ) byFritz Leiber
*"Morreion" (Dying Earth ) byJack Vance
*"The Merman's Children" byPoul Anderson
*"The Higher Heresies of Oolimar" (Amalric the Mangod) byLin Carter
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