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	Sword and sorcery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sword and sorcery (SandS) is a fantasy sub-genre featuring swashbuckling heroes in violent conflict with a variety of villains, chiefly wizards, witches, evil spirits, and other supernatural creatures.
		Magazines such as Black Gate and Flashing Swords have recently attempted to revive the genre to the state that it enjoyed during the pulp era of the twenties and thirties.
		Sword and Sorcery, a website dedicated to the genre and its history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sword_and_sorcery (836 words)

	Fanzing 10 - September 1998 - Classics Revisited
		Sword Of Sorcery #1 gives us an adaptation of Leiber's "The Price Of Pain Ease." This exciting story introduces us to our two main characters, Fafhrd The Barbarian & The Gray Mouser, and involves them in taking refuge from a brawl in a seemingly vacated luxurious palace.
		Sword Of Sorcery #3 is titled "Betrayal." No credits are given, but we learn in a later issue it's O'Neil & Chaykin again.
		Sword Of Sorcery #5 credits Denny O'Neil and Fritz Leiber for the first story "The Sunken Land." The truly inspired art is by Walt Simonson and Al Milgron.
	www.fanzing.com /mag/fanzing10/clsrev.shtml (673 words)

	SF Citations for OED
		Sword and sorcery would be encountered out of space and out of time in such tales as `The Sapphire Goddess' by Nictzin Dyalhis.
		This subgenre is distinguished from its close cousins, the space opera and the sword and sorcery fantasy, by its setting (an exotic, technologically primitive planet), although it shares with them the adventure-plot conventions of chases, escapes, and quests.
		Sword and sorcery attempts to combine the vigor of the slam-bang adventure story with the heroic grandeur of the old epics: Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and the like.
	www.jessesword.com /sf/view/235 (1274 words)

	The Conan Forums -> Sword&sorcery/fantasy
		As to the term Sword and Sorcery, it was a term coined by Fritz Leiber to fit Howard's style of fantasy.
		Sword and Scorcery; For me, this is a style of fantasy that tends to focus on the individual character dealing with threats or diffaculties that arise either because of his own actions or failure to act.
		Sword and Sorcery tends to be--though I suppose it doesn't have to be--more of a physical-type story, i.e., there is more hacking, bloodletting, and as far as most that I've read, the story moves along rather quickly, as opposed to a multi-book 'High Fantasy'; genre-style story.
	www.conan.com /invboard/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=807 (3713 words)

	Sword & Sorcery - your resource for fiction, interviews, articles, information and more
		This is the home of Flashing Swords E-zine and a growing body of works about sword and sorcery and its related genres.
		Flashing Swords is a quarterly ezine published in winter, spring, summer, and fall, and its next issue will appear the last week of June, 2006.
		More often sorcery is just one more obstacle used against them and is usually wielded by villains or monsters.
	www.swordandsorcery.org (763 words)

	Sword & Sorcery - sffworld.com
		Sword and Sorcery is more of an adventure tale than fantasy like Tolkein, Jordan, Farland and the like.
		High Fantasy usually has complex worlds invented by the authors, while swords and sorcery worlds are created only as a set to the heroes and aren't really described or built in a logical way.
		In High Fantasy there is a lot more politics, intrigues and armies clashing, swords and sorcery is usually about sole heroes and their swords and spells fighting hordes of monsters.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1668 (637 words)

	The Conan Forums -> Sword & Sorcery.org
		I usually associate "Sword and Planet" with Edgar Rice Burroughs (the Mars novels) and Leigh Brackett: basically, stories with an interplanetary and science fiction setting, but where characters wield archaic weapons like swords, act like they exist in a medieval fantasy setting, and where science is treated like magic.
		McCullough compares sword and sorcery to heroic fantasy in a thoroughly researched and entertaining look at both fantasy genres.
		In the second of his columns examining forgotten sword and sorcery characters, Andy Beau examines a nearly forgotten immortal, Casca.
	www.conan.com /invboard/index.php?showtopic=1374 (3055 words)

	Sword & Sorcery - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So I went with the Microcabin RPG "Sword & Sorcery", which I had already played under the title "Lucienne's Quest" when Panasonic released it for the 3DO back in March of 1996.
		"Sword & Sorcery" for 3DO used a third revision of that engine which gives us an all-polygon world with nice but rough-looking worlds that vary in look and texture.
		If you are an RPG nut who happens to stumble upon a cheap version of "Sword & Sorcery", and aren't jaded yet by visually stunning eye-candy like "Shining of the Holy Ark" or "Rayearth", I say give it a shot if you don't mind having a game with very little or no replay value.
	www.sega-saturn.com /saturn/software/reviews/sword&sorcery-1.htm (1302 words)

	swordsor.html
		Sword and Sorcery, a term usually ascribed to Fritz Leiber who first used the phrase in 1960, refers to a sub-genre of fantasy which deals with the swashbuckling exploits of violent, amoral swordsmen and their (often) bloody confrontations with agents of evil in imaginary lands.
		Setting his tale in an imaginary past (known as the Hyborian Age), "The Phoenix and the Sword" (Weird Tales, 1932) featured the first appearance of this violent and mighty swordsman.
		The legend of Conan as well as the notions of Sword & Sorcery were greatly expanded upon in sixteen additional stories, including "The Scarlet Citadel," "The Tower of the Elephant," "Black Colossus" and "Red Nails."16
	www.towson.edu /~flynn/swordsor.html (1904 words)

	RPGnet Forums - Sword & Sorcery?
		I noticed that the Sword and Sorcery line is produced under three different publishing names.
		Sword and Sorcery is an affiliation of design studios producing fantasy roleplaying products fully compatible with the open-gaming D20 System.
		FDP and Malhavoc actually started out as their own companies, and put out stuff under the Sword and Sorcery banner after they struck a deal.
	forum.rpg.net /printthread.php?t=880 (980 words)

	Wulf's Pit of Sword and Sorcery Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beefcake barbarians, bountifully-bosomed heroines, big swords, bad special effects, horrific dialog and budgets that wouldn't buy you a cup of coffee in Times Square.
		That's the world of Swords and Sorcery, kids, and welcome to it.
		One of the greatest cycles in sword and sorcery cinema history begins with the marginally-articulate Rick Hall portraying blonde bombshell Deathstalker on a quest to destroy the evil sorcerer Munkar and free the land from tyranny.
	www.wulfarchives.com /SSPitHome.htm (868 words)

	Sword & Sorcery: Modern, p. #2
		One of the most distinctive and interesting figures in the field, however, is Fritz Leiber, a highly intelligent writer who has gained respect in a number of genera.
		In sword & sorcery he is thought of as the thinking man's writer, for his stories are full of wit and irony, rare commodities in the field.
		There are many good artists working in the sword & sorcery/ fantasy field, but it has been dominated for the last thirty plus years by two figures, Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo.
	meadhall.homestead.com /Swordmodren.html (2610 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Sword and Sorcery Refined: The Books Of The Raven
		It will also see the birth of an ancient magic which combines the elements of the four disparate teachings in their world, but has the unfortunate side effect of being almost too strong for any mage to handle without their mind being fried.
		Well it is, but it's more then just simple sword and sorcery, although there's plenty of that too.
		It's sword and sorcery set in a world similar to ours, with the difference being that the consequences of your actions end up biting you in the nose a lot quicker there then they do here.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/07/25/061845.php (1623 words)

	Good Fantasy (sword and sorcery) Movies! - DUNGEONS & DRAGONS ONLINE: Stormreach Forums
		Sword and the sorcerer was also an excellent movie (Kurt Russell maybe not sure came out when i was a kid).
		You know my buddies and I were just joking about this the other day because of the three-bladed sword he had that "launched" its blades.
		Your star of Sword and the Sorcerer was Lee Horsley (sp?), of "Matt Houston" TV series fame (yaaaaa).
	www.ddo.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1326 (704 words)

	Sword & Sorcery - Your resource for fiction, interviews, articles, information & more
		I once taught junior high school, which is as exhilarating and demanding a task as any sword-and-sorcery hero ever faced.
		But here it is: fantasy, and sword-and-sorcery in particular, is beneficial for the health of the human mind.
		Ryan Harvey is the Managing editor of Sword and Sorcery.
	www.swordandsorcery.org /thirteen.asp (2630 words)

	Filmtracks: Conan: Sword & Sorcery Spectacular (Poledouris)
		The Adventures of Conan: A Sword and Sorcery Spectacular: (Basil Poledouris) In the early 1980s, Americans were consumed by the need for adventures from the mythical age of sword and sorcery.
		The most successful film of the genre is, of course, Conan the Barbarian, and not only did the film inspire a full-length motion picture sequel (the substandard Conan the Destroyer), but it also led to the creation of a live-action Conan stage show located at Universal Studios in 1983.
		The show, formally titled The Adventures of Conan: A Sword and Sorcery Spectacular, ran for ten successful years before being replaced by newer, more technically sophisticated attractions such as Jurassic Park: The Ride.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/conan_spectacular.html (817 words)

	Sword & Sorcery Kennels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sword and Sorcery Staffordshires was established in 1979, based on the best of the old Ruffian/Har-Wyn and Sooner bloodlines.
		Our crowning achievement is the founding of a line which remains sound and active into advanced age.
		Sword and Sorcery is proud to be the home of CH.
	www.hund.ch /zuechter/zpages/z258.htm (139 words)

	Aphelion Short Story Contest: Sword and Sorcery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This time we are mining the genre of Sword and Sorcery for story ideas.
		Yes, we are requesting submissions for an issue of short fiction dedicated entirely to tales of fighters battling supernatural evil with nothing more than their sharp wits and their sharper swords -- in short, an all Sword & Sorcery issue.
		Submissions for this special issue should be sent to sword@aphelion-webzine.com and should be clearly labeled as entries for the Sword & Sorcery Contest in the subject line.
	www.aphelion-webzine.com /sscontest.htm (529 words)

	SF Citations for OED
		Jeff Prucher submitted a 1963 cite from L. Sprague de Camp's introduction to his anthology "Sword and Sorcery".
		The tales collected under this name are adventure-fantasies, laid in imaginary prehistoric or medieval worlds, when (it's fun to imagine) all men were mighty, all women were beautiful, all problems were simple, and all life was adventurous.
		It was in letters with Fischer that the characters and some of the background of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser were first developed, and it was one of these that sold to Unknown and brought the author an immediate following among `heroic fantasy' fans.
	www.jessesword.com /sf/view/466 (768 words)

	Home Page
		It introduced several characters that are still among my favorites: Arilyn Moonblade, Danilo Thann, and the moon elf crime lord Elaith Craulnober.
		Sequels followed every few years, and when the Harper series was discontinued, the books were reissued as the Songs and Swords series.
		Plans are underway for a sixth and final book to this series, due in early 2007.
	www.elainecunningham.com (275 words)

	Sword and Sorcery Guide A - Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I have spent quite a bit of time documenting any Sword and Sorcery film I can obtain.
		I love seeing all kinds of sword and sorcery flicks.
		This site I hope will be the definitive shrine to all films Sword and Sorcery.
	www.jesseacosta.net /ss/main.htm (185 words)

	White Wolf Online Catalog
		Sword & Sorcery books are published under the Open Game License and are 100% compatible with v.3.5 rules and the d20 System.
		White Wolf is a registered trademark, and Sword and Sorcery Studios is a trademark of White Wolf Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.
		D20 system and the d20 logo are registered trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. and used under license.
	secure1.white-wolf.com /catalog/product_info.php?products_id=663 (342 words)

	What's New at Sword & Sorcery Studio at GenCon 2004 :: GamingReport.com :: Where Gamers get their News
		"Sword & Sorcery Studio presented a stunning review of their current and upcoming projects under the monitoring skill of the White Wolf marketing director Philippe Boulle.
		The panel, though, was superb offering plenty of details as they went and then rounded out the session with an open floor question period open to the floor."
		Sword and Sorcery March Release Details and Pictures
	www.gamingreport.com /article.php?sid=14017&mode=thread&order=0 (636 words)

	Sword and Sorcery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Welcome to the Halls of the Sisterhood of Sword and Sorcery, strange traveler.
		We are ususally just called the Sisterhood by outsiders, we are a secretive group of women of various races and backgrounds that train in the arts of sword and sorcery.
		Path of the Warrior -prefers the arts of the sword
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/swordandsorcery (214 words)

	Gamma World Home
		Now it's the 25th anniversary of the original Gamma World and Sword Sorcery Studios is releasing an entirely new edition updated for the modern age.The biggest difference with this take on Gamma World is a move away from fearsome atomic radiation as the source of mutations and other troubles.
		Instead, biotechnology and nanotechnology are the sources of change.
		Arthaus and Sword and Sorcery are trademarks of White Wolf Publishing, Inc. Gamma World™ is a registered trademark of Wizards of the Coast™, Inc. and is used by White Wolf under license.
	www.swordsorcery.com /gammaworld (471 words)

	My Sword and Sorcery book project - Movie Discussion Forum & Message Board
		When I was in college, I once tried writing a little bit, on a sword and sorcery style book.
		But I wanted to make it more believable: that the characters were REAL like you and I. It would be a realistic history, period piece in a sense, although magic did exist.
		He'd work for the flsmith as an apprentice, and be "into" swords and other weapons in a way a kid today would be into guns.
	www.filmhobbit.com /forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1002 (5661 words)

	Sword and Sorcery Studio - GameWyrd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sword and Sorcery Studio « Cyber Nexus « GameWyrd «
		Sword & Sorcery is an affiliation of design studios producing fantasy roleplaying products fully compatible with the open-gaming D20 System.
		The studios include: Sword & Sorcery Studio, Necromancer Games, Arthaus (Ravenloft), Fiery Dragon Productions and Malhavoc Press.
	www.gamewyrd.com /others/cyber86 (162 words)

	Sword and Sorcery Studios Legal Notice
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		The mention of or reference to any company or product in these pages is not a challenge to the trademark or copyright concerned.
	www.white-wolf.com /swordsorcery/Legal.html (876 words)

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