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Over the weekend, Bleeding Cool published accounts from authors who had found their fantasy work publishing in the revived Lin Carter's Flashing Swords #6 sitting alongside a foreword by editor Robert M Price that they found fundamentally objectionable So a number of them objected and demand their work be removed The publisher then delisted the[...]

As of yesterday that seemed all about the decision of several sci-fi and fantasy authors to pull out of the revival of a classic anthology over a bizarre foreword by the man who was bringing it all together, in Flashing Swords #6 The Daily Lying In The Gutters, remains a long-running run around the day[...]

This morning, Bleeding Cool ran the news that the foreword by Robert M Price, as partially seen in an Amazon.com preview, to the revival of the classic fantasy anthology, Lin Carter's Flashing Swords #6, had caused considerable concern by a number of the included authors They included friend-of-Bleeding Cool, comic store owner Cliff Biggers, publisher of[...]

Flashing Swords! was a series of fantasy anthologies published by Dell Books from 1973 to 1981 under the editorship of Lin Carter It showcased the heroic fantasy work of the members of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America and included Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories by Fritz Leiber, Dying Earth stories by Jack[...]