Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I agree with you - completely.
Sword & Sorcery is a sub-category of Fantasy - a branch, if you will. A Sword & Sorcery thread would exclude the over-arching umbrella that includes Fantasy, which is all inclusive. I would want such authors/characters, as listed below - to name only a few of the classic examples:
Karl Edward Wagner's Kane stories
Fritz Leiber - Fafhrd and Gray Mouser
Some Michael Moorcock
Howard's Conan stories
Lin Carter's Thongor of Lemuria
Steve Dilks' stories of Gunthar
Gardner F. Fox 's Kothar stories
Joel Jenkin's Dire novels
T.C. Rypal
David C. Smith's novels
David C. Smith & Richard L. Tierney / Robert E. Howard - Red Sonja
Andrew J. Offutt
Davd Mason's Kavin novels
Now to be sure, these are only some of the classic writers (and a few newer ones). It's an easy jump to Sword and Planet stories, and from thence to Otis Adelbert Kline and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
There would then be authors such as:
C.L. Moore (certain works)
Henry Kuttner (certain works)
Leigh Brackett (certain works)
Publisher: DMR appears to be concentrating solely upon many of the newer writers of sword & sorcery.
My concern: I don't think the term sword & sorcery would be respected. You would start to get the overlapping term 'heroic fantasy, and then clueless individuals (e.g., those who have no idea what the term signifies) would start to include straight fantasy.
For those uninitiated who think that Fantasy alone - as a genre - is also sword & sorcery, they might wish to check out the link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_and_sorcery |