The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction records a chance example of "sword and sorcery" from 1953, where it appears in a … See more

Sword and sorcery stories take place in a fictional world where magic exists. The setting can be an Earth in the mythical past or distant future, an imaginary other world or an alien … See more

Despite the importance of C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton, and other female authors, as well as Moore's early heroine, sword and sorcery has been characterized as having a masculine bias. Female characters were generally distressed damsels See more

• Planetary romance
• Sword and planet
• Wuxia – the Chinese equivalent of Western sword and sorcery fantasy literatures
• List of sword and sorcery films See more

Origins
In his introduction to the reference Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers by L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter notes that the heritage of sword … See more

The genre has been defined by Robert E. Howard's work, especially his tales of Conan the Barbarian and Kull of Atlantis, mostly in Weird Tales from 1932 and 1929 respectively.
Other books and series that define the genre of sword-and … See more

• The dictionary definition of sword and sorcery at Wiktionary
• entry for Sword and Sorcery in the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
• Sword and Sorcery in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction See more