Flashing Swords! 1

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 first British edition was issued by Mayflower in 1974.^[1]

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.

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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