Imaro Ascends to the Pantheon
Charles Saunders’ sword-and-sorcery hero Imaro has been around for years, for most of my lifetime in fact. I’ve been aware of the character, encountering him
May 4, 2025
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Setting and Sword-and-Sorcery. Plus Savage Journal Entry 31.
Location, location, location. Setting is a vital component of Sword-and-Sorcery fiction. The action needs to occur in some pre-industrial locale, a secondary world, a fictionalized
February 19, 2023
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S&S 202: Does Sword-and-Planet Fiction Qualify as Sword-and-Sorcery? Resurrected Post.
March 15, 2020 S&S 202: Does Sword-and-Planet Fiction Qualify as Sword-and-Sorcery? Does the Sword-and-Planet (also known as Planetary Romance) genre qualify as Sword-and-Sorcery? Or, more
November 20, 2022
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Intro to Sword and Sorcery: Five Names You Should Know. Resurrected Post.
November 24, 2019 Intro to Swords and Sorcery: Five Names You Should Know Perhaps you are new to this planet, or have been living in
November 13, 2022
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What is Sword and Sorcery? Resurrected Post.
November 17, 2019 What is Swords and Sorcery? Sword & Sorcery is one of those terms that defies precise definition. So, it is, I suppose,
November 13, 2022
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How Does Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Tie in to Sword and Sorcery? Plus Savage Journal Entry 4.
The end of modern civilization. What caused it? Nuclear war, plague, zombies, alien invasion? Pick your poison. But the world we know is gone. Survivors
August 21, 2022
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Brak the Barbarian. Resurrected Post.
July 3, 2016 Brak the Barbarian John Jakes, you magnificent bastard. Brak the Barbarian served up a feast, complete with tankard of ale and haunch
July 3, 2022
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“Heroic Fantasy” Earns Its Title.
I finally got my hands on a copy of the anthology Heroic Fantasy. That’s a good cover, isn’t it? There’s a story in that illustration
May 15, 2022
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Lin Carter, Appendix N Supplemental. Resurrected Post.
October 24, 2021 Lin Carter, Appendix N Supplemental Rereading DMG’s Appendix N, I noted that the Lin Carter entry specified a single series. Now, I’ve
April 16, 2022
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