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Flashing Swords #11

By Seija Szilagyi ⋅ August 14, 2008

Flashing Swords #11 is a collection of historical, historical-fantasy, and fantasy stories and poetry, with an essay thrown in for variation. Most of the pieces spotlight swords, as is appropriate for a publication with the name Flashing Swords, as well as chronicling the adventures of various heroes.
The title of Lyn McConchie’s “Faer Trading” is a [...]

Flashing Swords #10

By Chris Butler ⋅ May 22, 2008

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 [...]

Flashing Swords, #9, Winter 2008

By David Kopaska-Merkel ⋅ April 1, 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 [...]

Flashing Swords #8

By Marshall Payne ⋅ November 25, 2007

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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