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    Sword and sorcery (S&S) or heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures....
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  • Heroic Fantasy is a computer-moderated, dungeon crawl play-by-mail game. It has been active since 1982 when it was published by Flying Buffalo. The initial...
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  • Magic Sword: Heroic Fantasy is a 1990 hack-and-slash arcade game by Capcom. The game casts the player as a hero who must fight his way through a mystical...
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  • The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Japanese: アルスラーン戦記, Hepburn: Arusurān Senki, lit. 'Arslan War Records') is a Japanese fantasy novel series written by Yoshiki...
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  • "High Fantasy and Heroic Romance", which was originally given at the New England Round Table of Children's Librarians in October 1969. Many high fantasy stories...
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    fantasy, whose supernatural aspects are intended to be internally consistent and explainable, named in analogy to hard science fiction Heroic fantasy...
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    Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy, p 10 ISBN 0-87054-076-9 John Grant and John Clute, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, "Arabian fantasy", p 52 ISBN 0-312-19869-8...
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    The Makers of Heroic Fantasy, p 132-3 ISBN 0-87054-076-9 L. Sprague de Camp, Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy, p 116 ISBN 0-87054-076-9...
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  • The Name of the Wind (category Heroic fantasy)
    Chronicle: Day One, is a heroic fantasy novel written by American author Patrick Rothfuss. It is the first book in the ongoing fantasy trilogy The Kingkiller...
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  • fantasy Contemporary fantasy Dark fantasy Fantasy of manners Heroic fantasy Magic realism Mythic Paranormal fantasy Shenmo fantasy Superhero fantasy Sword...
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  • David Gemmell (category British fantasy writers)
    Gemmell (/ˈɡɛməl/; 1 August 1948 – 28 July 2006) was a British author of heroic fantasy, best known for his debut novel, Legend. A former journalist and newspaper...
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  • Heroic Fantasy is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Gerald W. Page and Hank Reinhardt. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in April...
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    classification generally take place prior to the 20th century. Heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy in which events occur in a world where magic is prevalent...
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    Makers of Heroic Fantasy, p. 6 ISBN 0-87054-076-9 Carter, Lin, Imaginary Worlds, the Art of Fantasy. Ballantine, 1973. Brian Attebery, The Fantasy Tradition...
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  • the like. It was intended to be a heroic fantasy quest that followed a protagonist growing and maturing into a heroic role to save the world. Fire Emblem...
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  • the United States as The Jerusalem Man) is a 1987 post-apocalyptic heroic fantasy novel by British author David Gemmell. It is similar to Gemmell's first...
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  • The Kingkiller Chronicle (category Fantasy novel trilogies)
    The Kingkiller Chronicle is a planned fantasy trilogy by the American writer Patrick Rothfuss. The first two books, The Name of the Wind and The Wise...
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  • The Eye of Argon (category Heroic fantasy short stories)
    The Eye of Argon is a 1970 sword and sorcery fantasy novella by Jim Theis (1953–2002) that narrates the adventures of the barbarian Grignr. It has been...
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    Julie Bell (category American fantasy artists)
    bodybuilder and wildlife painter. Bell is also a fantasy artist and a representative of the heroic fantasy and fantastic realism genres. Bell has won Chesley...
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  • Rocannon's World (category Heroic fantasy)
    technological Hainish Cycle, the story itself has many elements of heroic fantasy. The hero Gaveral Rocannon encounters lords who live in castles and...
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    Goodman Publishers Goodman Games Publication 2012- (9th printing in 2021) Genres Heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, science fantasy Systems customized d20...
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  • Jack the Giant Killer (1962 film) (category Heroic fantasy)
    Jack the Giant Killer is a 1962 American heroic fantasy adventure film starring Kerwin Mathews in a fairy tale story about a young man who defends a princess...
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    within Slavic fantasy: historical and heroic fantasy. Sergei and Zhanna Zhuravlev classify Slavic fantasy into three trends: historical, heroic, and comedic...
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  • American fantasy authors active from the 1960s through the 1980s, noted for their contributions to the "Sword and Sorcery" kind of heroic fantasy, itself...
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  • Versus (2022 manga) (category Heroic fantasy)
    Versus First tankōbon volume cover バーサス (Bāsasu) Genre Heroic fantasy Isekai Manga Written by One (story) bose (composition) Illustrated by Kyōtarō Azuma [ja]...
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    to build their respective worlds in a rigorous and logical manner. Heroic fantasy – chronicles the tales of heroes in imaginary lands. Frequently, the...
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  • similar name. A version of Madame Web makes a brief appearance in the heroic fantasy world of Avataars: Covenant of the Shield as "the Widow of the Web"...
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    The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (category Heroic fantasy)
    The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a 1958 American Technicolor heroic fantasy adventure film directed by Nathan H. Juran and starring Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher...
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  • The Broken Sword (category Heroic fantasy)
    that "The first portion of this novel is perhaps the finest American heroic fantasy, with good characterizations, excellent surface detail, good plotting...
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  • The Worm Ouroboros (category Heroic fantasy)
    The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by English writer E. R. Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war between...
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