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Publisher Delists Flashing Swords #6 After Authors Object to Foreword - Bleeding Cool News

Publisher Delists Flashing Swords #6 After Authors Object to Foreword - Bleeding Cool News

Jul 31, 2020 1 min, 31 secs

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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.

It has come to my attention that in the introduction to the book Flashing Swords #6, Editor Robert M.

I have requested that my name and story be removed from the anthology, and I cannot recommend that anyone buy the book.

I apologize to anyone who may have already purchased the book at my earlier recommendation.

RETRACTION: Earlier today I recommended and spoke of how proud I was in seeing my first published Sword and Sorcery story in the returning anthology series, Flashing Swords.

I wrote and requested my name and story be removed from the book as well as the book that followed.

RETRACTION: It has come to my attention that in the introduction to the book FLASHING SWORDS.

I have requested that my name and story be removed from the anthology.

I apologize to anyone who may have already purchased the book at my earlier recommendation.

(I am not the only author who has expressed these concerns to Robert M. Price, but I will let those other authors speak for themselves.).

When Bob Price sent me the manuscript, I assumed that he had shared his introduction with the authors, given the controversial content!

I don't agree with much of anything in that introduction, but I also don't like to censor other viewpoints – so, on the assumption that all the authors were on board, I published the book.

Price, Carter's literary executor, sought to revive the series with Lin Carter's Flashing Swords #6, to be published in August

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