THE SWORD AND SORCERY ANTHOLOGY

This book is not just an anthology. Beginning at the beginning, it collects works from Weird Tales in 1933 and 1934 by two foundational authors, Robert E. Howard and C.L. Moore, it is a retrospective, a sequential look at the most representative authors of a healthy subgenre as dominant in the Eighties as dark urban fantasy is today. Its editors are unimpeachable and its authors as good as they get. -- There is nothing else that covers this ground. It is a book any serious fan/collector of the literature of the fantastic needs to ingest - which is not to say that the casual reader will not enjoy herself . . . especially if she goes beyond the very early efforts." (Agent Linn Prentis)

Further entries come from early legends such as Jack Vance and Catherine Louise Moore, the next wave of talents including Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock, and modern trendsetters like George R.R. Martin, Karl Edward Wagner, and David Drake. This essential, fast-paced anthology is a chronological gathering of influential, inventive, and entertaining fantasy - sure to appeal to action-oriented fans.

"Hartwell and Weisman have selected some of the best short-form work in the genre. . . . This is an unbeatable selection from classic to modern, and each story brings its A game." - PW, starred review

"The 19 stories in this volume span a time period from 1933 to 2012 and provide a strong introduction to this fantasy subgenre." - Library Journal

David G. Hartwell is a senior editor at Tor/Forge Books and the publisher of the New York Review of Science Fiction.

Jacob Weisman is the founder, editor, and publisher at Tachyon Publications.