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Sword and sorcery

Sword and sorcery follows adventures shaped by dangerous magic, martial skill and personal stakes. Heroes often face immediate perils rather than a quest to save an entire world.

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January 2024

17Jan 2024

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1 (magazine review).

In his introduction, editor and publisher Oliver Brackenbury promises us sword and sorcery stories ‘made with love for the classics, and an inclusive,…

Dave Brzeski17 Jan 2024

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Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature).

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Cronos: Lazarus is dated for 3 December, and the Warden finally gets a hunter of his own (trailer).

Gulliver’s Travels at 300: how a Dublin dean invented the flying island, the mad scientist and the moons of Mars, and still found time to be rude about everyone (feature).

Creative Futures (Beyond And Within) edited by Allen Stroud (book review)

The Land Unknown (1957) (film review)

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Dogfights Over the Desert: The SFcrowsnest UFO Roundup, October 2026

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Maison Ghibli returns to London, and No-Face is moving to Oxford Street (news).

Dimensions: A Case Book Of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee (book review).

Sir Patrick Stewart (1940–2026): the captain’s final log.

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Netflix’s Bass X Machina unleashes steampunk cowboys, mechanical minotaurs and a suspiciously familiar name

Captain America #16: Doctor Doom repossesses Hell, voids Mephisto’s contracts, and Spider-Man fans start eyeing One More Day (comic news, spoilers).

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Sword and sorcery

January 2024

New Edge Sword & Sorcery #1 (magazine review).