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Sword & sorcery fiction due to its nature works better in novelette or novella length. Many classic works are actually collections of stories rather than novels. Paperback barbarians were in some great anthologies. L. Sprague de Camp was the first to edit sword & sorcery anthologies: Swords and Sorcery (Pyramid Books,1963), The Spell of Seven […]

There is a type of hybrid fantastic fiction that has the attitude of sword & sorcery but has a science fictional setting. It owes to Edgar Rice Burroughs but also has some Robert E. Howard in it. Gardner F. Fox’s “Sword of the Seven Suns” might be the first example I can think of. The […]