![]() ![]() However, smaller presses have continued to issue new works in the genre, most notably Wildside Press, primarily through The Borgo Press imprint. Stirling and published by Tor: The Sky People (2006) and In the Courts of the Crimson Kings (2008). One notable exception are two books written by S. ![]() Except for continuations of the extended Dray Prescot and Gor sequences, and occasional parodies of earlier series, not many new works in the genre have appeared from major publishers since 1980. Such authors included Lin Carter and Michael Moorcock. The second and larger group includes authors who began to write Burroughs pastiches from the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Burroughs' Pellucidar series could arguably be considered sword-and-(inner) planet, as it follows most of the plot conventions described below. Burroughs followed up this first book with several more Barsoom stories, and another series that could be considered Sword & Planet, featuring as hero Carson Napier and his adventures on Venus, natively known as Amtor. There he encounters savage and monstrous aliens, a beautiful princess, and a life of adventure and wonder. Under mysterious circumstances, he is transported to Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants. In A Princess of Mars, John Carter, a Confederate officer and soldier, has taken up prospecting in Arizona after the war to regain his fortune. The first includes the stories of Burroughs himself and his early imitators, of whom Otis Adelbert Kline was the most significant. Stories in the sword and planet genre fall primarily into two chronological classes. 3.22 Kenneth Bulmer (writing as Alan Burt Akers and as Dray Prescot).3.18.1 Den Series, a comics character featured in Heavy Metal and other publications.3.15 John Frederick Lange (writing as John Norman).3.14.2 Storm series, stories by Lawrence, Martin Lodewijk and others (1977–).3.14.1 The Trigan Empire series, written by Mike Butterworth (1965–1982).3.13.2 Kane of Old Mars series (writing as Edward Powys Bradbury).3.13.1 Sojan the Swordsman series (juvenile short stories).3.3 Roger Sherman Hoar (as Ralph Milne Farley).This leads to anachronistic situations such as flying ships held aloft by anti-gravity technology, while ground travel is done by riding domesticated native animals. In general, the alien planet will seem to be more medieval and primitive than Earth. That is to say that the hero is alone as the only human being from Earth, swords are the weapon of choice, and while the alien planet has some advanced technology, it is used only in limited applications to advance the plot or increase the grandeur of the setting. Influenced by the likes of A Princess of Mars yet more modern and technologically savvy, sword and planet more directly imitates the conventions established by Burroughs in the Mars series. ![]() There is a fair amount of overlap between sword and planet and planetary romance, although some works are considered to belong to one and not the other. Both Ace Books and DAW Books were instrumental in bringing much of the earlier pulp sword and planet stories back into print, as well as publishing a great deal of new, imitative work by a new generation of authors. Wollheim, editor of Ace Books, and later of DAW Books at a time when the genre was undergoing a revival. The phrase appears to have first been coined in the 1960s by Donald A. The genre tag "sword and planet" was constructed to mimic the terms sword and sorcery, and sword and sandal. Native technology will often break the known laws of physics. For example, little thought is given to explaining why the environment of the alien planet is compatible with life from Earth, just that it does in order to allow the hero to move about and interact with the natives. The genre predates the mainstream popularity of science fiction proper, and does not necessarily feature any scientific rigor, being instead romantic tales of high adventure. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905 published in the US in 1964 as Gulliver of Mars), the prototype for the genre is A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs originally serialized by All-Story in 1912 as "Under the Moons of Mars". Although there are works that herald the genre, such as Percy Greg's Across the Zodiac (1880) and Edwin Lester Arnold's Lieut. The name derives from the heroes of the genre engaging their adversaries in hand-to-hand combat primarily with simple melée weapons such as swords, even in a setting that often has advanced technology. Sword and planet is a subgenre of science fantasy that features rousing adventure stories set on other planets, and usually featuring humans as protagonists. ![]() Cover of Amazing Stories, October 1941 Fantasy ![]()
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