Flashing Swords

An e-zine of fiction and poetry in the fantasy sub-genres of Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, Heroic Fantasy, Epic/High Fantasy, Swashbuckling Adventures, and Historical Adventure.

Flashing Swords #10

Flashing Swords is a magazine of Heroic Adventure Fantasy. Fans of the genre should find a great deal to enjoy within the pages of issue #10. Certainly you get value for money with thirteen short stories, plus poems, art, and nonfiction. On the whole, I thought the stories were fine pulp adventures, either dark-and-grim or […]

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Flashing Swords, #9, Winter 2008

Flashing Swords, #9, Winter 2008, serves up a generous helping of sword and sorcery fiction and verse. This issue, 133 pages long, contains illustrations by a variety of artists and 19 written pieces. Alas, the table of contents does not distinguish between stories, essays, and poems, although interviews are always titled as “interview […]

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Flashing Swords #8

Having fallen into hiatus, Flashing Swords is back with a new editorial staff for issue #8.
“The Gods-Forsaken World” by Steve Goble is a tale of adventure upon the high seas. But first, Calthus of Thaal, ancient warrior resurrected by the monks, must meet up with Kostas and the wizard who hires them, Revlin. […]

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