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The Mighty Barbarians

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The Mighty Barbarians
Cover of The Mighty Barbarians
Authoredited by Hans Stefan Santesson
Cover artistJim Steranko
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
PublisherLancer Books
Publication date
1969
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages221 pp.
Followed byThe Mighty Swordsmen 

The Mighty Barbarians: Great Sword and Sorcery Heroes is a 1969 anthology of fantasy short stories in the sword and sorcery subgenre, edited by Hans Stefan Santesson. It was first published in paperback by Lancer Books in 1969,[1] and was later followed up by the subsequent Lancer anthology The Mighty Swordsmen. It has been translated into Dutch.[1] Robert M. Price edited a later-day homage to both anthologies called The Mighty Warriors (2018).[2]

Summary

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The book collects five sword and sorcery tales of authors and protagonists prominent in the genre, featuring Robert E. Howard's Conan, Henry Kuttner's Elak, Lin Carter's Thongor, L. Sprague de Camp's Suar Peial, and Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

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Reception

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The book was reviewed by Fred Patten in Science Fiction Review no. 38, 1970.[1]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c The Mighty Barbarians title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. ^ Price, Robert M., ed. The Mighty Warriors, Warren, RI, Ulthar Press, 2018. p. 4.