![]() ![]() The story is really a simple one, although there are several plot lines, all involving to one degree or another the swordsman Richard St. It is billed as "A Melodrama of Manners," and it is that, and more. ![]() Swordspoint is that most unusual fantasy, one without mages, wizards or sorcerers, no spectral visions, no medieval jousts or merry bands of thieves, no dire prophecies, goblins or dark spiritual presences. Parked happily outside the throng is Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint, the newest edition of which also contains three related short stories, "The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death," "Red-Cloak" and "The Death of the Duke." ![]() It's a melancholy trend, although perhaps inevitable, that something that should be as fresh and inventive as fantasy literature so easily becomes formulaic, to the degree that there are subcategories with many examples, all easily identifiable and few really standing out. ![]()
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