Russell Letson

2 Quotations from Russell Letson

Cerean adj. 2016 R. Letson The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred in Locus (#667) Aug. 49/3 (review) The other story line follows the acceptance of Vestan refugees into Cerean society and includes social-theory conversations that parallel those of the Vesta thread.
sword and sorcery n. 1978 R. Letson in P. J. Farmer Green Odyssey Introd. p. v The major tradition is the subgenre which may be called the planetary romance. This subgenre is distinguished from its close cousins, the space opera and the sword and sorcery fantasy, by its setting (an exotic, technologically primitive planet), although it shares with them the adventure-plot conventions of chases, escapes, and quests.