Swords & Rockets: Tales of Futures Past (short story collection)

Sword and planet stories were popularised many years ago for the first time by Edgar Rice Burroughs with his immortal novels set either on the sands of Mars or the luxuriant jungles of an imaginary Venus, the first of which was A Princess of Mars, serialised as “Under the Moons of Mars” in 1912 in The All-Story.
Of course, all of these tales fly in the face of scientific fact, but exist in an alternative reality where high technology, sword fights and fantastical heroics can co-exist on what we now know are dead, inhospitable planets.
There are many other writers who partook in these entertaining fantasies, including Robert E. Howard, with his unfinished novel Almuric, and Michael Moorcock, who wrote pastiches of the Burroughs tales. Nor should we forget C. L. Moore and her tales of Northwest Smith, the legendary hero of the spaceways.
Here we present eight new tales of swords and planets, written by new writers in the genre:
The Vaults of Ban-Erach by Steve Dilks
The Fountains of Mars by Tais Teng
The Demon from Another World by David A. Riley
Jotnar by J. Benjamin Sanders Jr
A Sand-ship of Mars by Charles Gramlich
Huetta Gloom and the Monkey-Boy by Andrew Darlington
A Star Shines Brightest by Constantine Bech
Serpent God of Mars by Adrian Cole