In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Gordon Gelder. Running Press Book Publishers, $15.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-1-56858-314-3

In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by Gordon Van Gelder, offers a dozen heroic fantasy yarns. While such classic writers as Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber are represented, the emphasis is on more recent contributors to this popular subgenre such as Ellen Kushner and Jeffrey Ford. (Sept.) .

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