Sword and sorcery

:This article is about a fantasy sub-genre. For information on the game company, see Sword & Sorcery.

Seminal S&S

Seminal S&S books and series include:

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• Robert E. Howard's tales of Conan the Barbarian, mostly in Weird Tales from 1932.
• Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales, beginning with "The Empire of the Necromancers" (1932).
• C. L. Moore's "Black God's Kiss" (1934), which introduced the first notable S&S heroine, Jirel of Joiry; the story was later collected with others in Jirel of Joiry (1969).
• Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser sequence, beginning with "Two Sought Adventure" (1939).
• Michael Moorcock's Elric sequence, beginning with The Dreaming City (published in Science Fantasy 1961).
• Karl Edward Wagner's Kane novels, beginning with Darkness Weaves first published in 1970.

Other pulp fantasy fiction - such as Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars and Leigh Brackett's Sea Kings of Mars - have a similar feel to S&S, but, because alien science replaces the supernatural, it is usually described as science fantasy or Sword and Planet.

Related Topics:
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Leigh Brackett - Science fantasy - Sword and Planet

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