- Flashing Swords!
Flashing Swords! was a series of
fantasy anthologies published by Dell Books from 1973 to 1981 under the editorship ofLin Carter . It showcased theheroic fantasy work of the members of theSwordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA) , a somewhat informal literary group active from the 1960s to the 1980s, of which Carter was the guiding force. Most of the importantsword and sorcery writers at the time of the group’s founding were members; later, membership was extended to other fantasy authors.The "Flashing Swords!" series provides a cross-section of the heroic fantasy of the period. Carter and SAGA also sponsored The
Gandalf Award from 1974-1981. With the collapse of Carter’s health in the 1980s the anthology series, the Gandalf award, and likely SAGA itself all went into abeyance.Contents
In all, twenty-three stories were published in the series, all of them for the first time. These included two "
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser " stories byFritz Leiber (in #1 and #3), two "Dying Earth " stories byJack Vance (in vols. 1 and 4), the first two parts of the novel "The Merman's Children " byPoul Anderson (also in 1 and 4), two "Amalric the Mangod" stories byLin Carter (in 1 and 3), a "Pusad" tale and the first part of the novel "The Incorporated Knight " byL. Sprague de Camp (in 2 and 3, respectively), two "Elric of Melniboné " stories byMichael Moorcock (in 2 and 4), two "Witch World " stories byAndre Norton (in 2 and 3), two "Brak the Barbarian" stories byJohn Jakes (in 2 and 4), one story byAvram Davidson (in vol. 3), a "Deryni " story byKatherine Kurtz (in 4), a "Dilvish" story byRoger Zelazny (in 5), a story byC. J. Cherryh (in 5), a story byDiane Duane (in 5), an "Ebenezum" story byCraig Shaw Gardner (in 5), and a story byTanith Lee (in 5).The series
# "Flashing Swords! #1" (1973)
# "Flashing Swords! #2" (1973)
# ""(1976)
# ""(1977)
# "" (1981)
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