Jirel of Joiry: First Heroine of Sword-and-Sorcery

Posted By pandabrett on Apr 13, 2021

Jirel of Joiry: First Heroine of Sword-and-Sorcery by Ryan Harvey The sword-swinging, laser gun-blasting, wooden-stake carrying women who are an enormous part of today’s popular entertainment owe their existence to a medieval lady who first appeared more than eighty years ago in the pulp pages: Jirel of Joiry. Flame-haired, tenacious as a she-lion, “a shouting battle-machine,” sojourner in forbidden magical lands—Jirel was the first...