Top Ten Favorite Swords in Heroic Fantasy
The enchanted sword has been a part of heroic fantasy since the beginning. Beowulf slays Grendel’s mother with an elder blade he conveniently finds in Read More
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The Underwater City in the Golden Age
The concept of the underwater city, usually a futuristic deal under a glass dome, is as old as Science Fiction. John Wilkins, in Mathematicall Magick Read More
Magic Versus Science: Campbellian Fantasy After 1943
Unknown Worlds of Science Fantasy Unknown Worlds was an important magazine for Fantasy fiction. Before its run between 1939 and 1943, the fantastic genre was Read More
Wan Tengri in Conan the Barbarian
Flame Winds was a Sword & Sorcery novel written by Norvell W. Page back in the Pulp days of John W. Campbell. It appeared in Read More
The Men Who Saved Sword & Sorcery
It’s easy to assume, while perusing through old Lancer paperbacks or any of the dozens of 1970s novels, that Sword & Sorcery was a roaring Read More
Adventures in Pusad or How L. Sprague de Camp Tried To Steer Sword & Sorcery
In the October 1939 issue of Unknown, editor John W. Campbell published a story called “The Elder Gods” by Don A. Stuart. Though not an Read More