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43 - Sword & Sorcery with Jared Shurin
Cabbages and Kings
English - February 22, 2017 14:07 - 27 minutes - 25 MB - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsArts Books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We discuss a Lyn Ballantine Quote, some classics (new & old), and Charles Payseur has short fiction recommendations
This episode I'm joined by Jared Shurin (@straycarnivore) of the award-nominated genre site Pornokitsch (@pornokitsch), and editor with Mahvesh Murad of the upcoming anthology The Djinn Falls in Love. We discuss the Sword & Sorcery subgenre, and an old quote from Lin Carter defining the genre.
We call a story Sword & Sorcery when it is an action tale, derived from the traditions of the pulp magazine adventure story, set in a land, age or world of the author's invention - a milieu in which magic actually works and the gods are real - a story, moreover, which pits a stalwart warrior in direct conflict with the forces of supernatural evil.In addition, Charles Payseur joins us to recommend short fiction centered around falling.
Jared & Mahvesh's (now-completed) Dragonlance Reread
The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (#SPFBO)
"What Glistens Back" by Sunny Moraine (Lightspeed)"The Sky, Falling" by Anton Rose (Terraform)"One Giant Leap" by Jay Werkheiser (Strange Horizons)"Vernal Fall" by Edward Ashton (Flash Fiction Online)
Transcript here. Transcript of Charles' review here.
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