English Explanatory Dictionary

sword and planet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy based around action and adventure on exotic alien worlds.

Word forms

sword and planet

Etymology

Perhaps modelled on earlier sword and sorcery and sword and sandal.

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