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Cover artist Virgil Finlay Language English Publication date 1972 Originally published 1972 Publisher Centaur Press OCLC 12820329 | 2.8/5 Goodreads Country United States Series Time-Lost series Media type Print (paperback) Illustrator Virgil Finlay Genres Short story, Fantasy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Similar Works by Virgil Finlay, Robert E Howard books, Fantasy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Swordsmen and Supermen is an anonymously edited anthology of fantasy stories by Robert E. Howard and others, with a cover by Virgil Finlay. It was first published in paperback by Centaur Press in February 1972. The anonymous editor has been identified by bibliographers Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings and by critic Roger C. Schlobin as the publisher, Donald M. Grant.
Contents
The book collects five novelettes and short stories by various fantasy authors, with a general introductory note and introductory notes on the authors and stories prefacing each story. The stories are "swashbuckling fantastic yarns" both from the pulp era of the 1920s and 1930s and the period in which the book was published.
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Reception
The anthology has been characterized by critic Roger C. Schlobin as "an outstanding group of five new and reprinted examples and sorcery." He considers "the Crombie tale, concerning a questing shape-changer ... a particular treat."