A reader, who I will call Utahjim, asked me a great question the other day. He had been reading L. Sprague de Camp’s The Spell of Seven (1965) and recognized that many of Sword & Sorcery’s most famous characters appeared there. Fafhrd & Gray Mouser, Elric, Conan. He asked: If you could only have one book to sum up the superstars of the genre, which one would you pick?
I thought of de Camp first, since his four anthologies, of which The Spell of Seven was the second, were so important for establishing S&S in the 1960s. But their publication date makes them too incomplete. Plenty happened after 1970. My second thought was Sprague’s partner-in-crime, Lin Carter. Surely, I need look no further than Lin. However, his S&S anthologies, Flashing Swords, were collections of new works so they would not fit the bill.
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