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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 8d

Ladies, gentlemen, lovers of sword-and-sorcery one and all:

Uncork the mead - we cracked 10k, and with that, BATTLEBORN #2 will drop in June 2026!

We cannot wait to bring blood-and-thunder back to the Frontlines of Fantasy with each and every one of you!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 8d

12 Hours left in the Battleborn crowdfunder. We are $300 shy of locking in the summer release of Issue 2, complete with @michaelastackpole.bsky.social cover story.
Plus, ALL backers get over $200 of free fiction on top of the magazine.
To glory!

www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

Battleborn Magazine

From the Frontlines of Fantasy | Check out 'Battleborn Magazine' on Indiegogo.

www.indiegogo.com

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 8d

Especially since there were three whole Final Fantasy games that skipped US release. That would have changed my childhood forever!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 8d

Those first six Final Fantasies are so confusing on numbering.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 9d

FFII here being FF6?

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 9d

BATTLEBORN just broke 9k - and with our next stretch goal firmly in sight, what say we sweeten the pot?

ALL backers of BATTLEBORN will get digital copies of the first 4 issues of ANVIL - and a few other goodies, too - to help you get a taste for our team's work!

www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 10d

Battleborn, Swords & Sorcery Magazine and New Edge S&S each have less than 3 days left in thier crowdfunders.

Battleborn and Swords and Sorcery Magazine are also just over 1k each away from the next stretch goals.

Do your part to spice up next year's fantasy scene! Swords Together!

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Swords & Sorcery Magazine @curtissandsm.bsky.social · 10d

Join me in backing Battleborn. Help them reach their next goal to lock in the date for their second issue. Swords together! www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

Battleborn Magazine

From the Frontlines of Fantasy | Check out 'Battleborn Magazine' on Indiegogo.

www.indiegogo.com

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 11d

Together, brother?

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 11d

How much for yours?

1k and we lock in issue 2 - lets conquer the stretches together!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 14d

Between them, Battleborn, and best of sword-and-sorcery monthly, this is a big week for crowdfunding in the scene isn't it?

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 14d

One of the many reasons for my crusade to bring Vettius and Dama back to print!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 14d

Raise your glasses and your blades to David Drake, born this day 80 years ago. Vietnam veteran, military scifi pioneer, and among the finest authors and champions of sword-and-sorcery that the genre has ever known.

Does anybody here have a favorite David Drake story?

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 15d

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 15d

It's a streaming service whose very existence is kept afloat solely by having the streaming rights to Bluey, a show Disney didn't even make.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 17d

It was a joy to speak, however briefly.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 17d

The NPR List of the Top 100 from 2011 I think is actually damned solid.

I would ditch MZB for obvious reasons, but otherwise? I've used it as a checklist to work down for years and haven't had a bad read yet.

Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 17d

We both have 9 days left, eh?

Ready for a charge to the front together?

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 17d

They certainly sold me on the book the first time I saw it!

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 17d

And it's excellent! I'd love more like it!

There's just something so evocative about underwater scifi.

Plus, we don't get nearly enough scifi with sharks on the cover.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 18d

You could make it Aquapunk/Underwater scifi themed!

That subgenre had not received the love it should since the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 18d

I don't suppose the warm glow of helping an author you like/admire, and occasionally seeing your name/outlet on cover copy counts as pay?

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 18d

Joe Haldeman said he had written the rough draft of a Conan novel while deployed to Vietnam, whose manuscript ended as "casualties of a fire fight."

If you excuse me, I must know lament that we could have had sword-and-sorcery from Joe Haldeman, joining David Drake as a MilSF titan that did both.

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Sean CW Korsgaard @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social · 19d

Lets take a moment to remember Tanith Lee today, on what would have been her 78th birthday.

Lee straddled horror, fantasy, romance and science fiction in her sword-and-sorcery in a way few authors did.

Do any of you have a favorite story by Tanith Lee?

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Nerds of a Feather @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social · 19d

Today at the blog, @princejvstin.com interviews @scwkorsgaard.bsky.social

www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/inte...

Interview with Sean CW Korsgaard

Sean CW Korsgaard is a U.S. Army veteran, award-winning freelance journalist, author, editor, and publicist who has worked with Analog Scien...

www.nerds-feather.com

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