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Charles Robert Saunders (July 12, 1946 – May 2020) was an African-American author and journalist, a pioneer of the "sword and soul" literary genre with his Imaro novels. During his long career, he wrote novels, non-fiction, screenplays and radio plays.
Jan 21, 2021 · A Black Literary Trailblazer’s Solitary Death: Charles Saunders, 73. His speculative fiction was built on Black heroes and African themes. He died alone and unrecognized, but friends are trying...
Nov 12, 2020 · Back in April 2020, when I started planning and drafting my article on Black Fantasy writers, one of the first names I came across was Charles Robert Saunders — a former-journalist living in...
Charles R. Saunders, whose speculative fiction was built on Black heroes and African themes, died alone and unrecognized in May 2020 in Nova Scotia. He was 73. Via Taaq Kirksey via The New York Times.
Imaro is a sword and sorcery novel written by Charles R. Saunders, and published by DAW Books in 1981. It may have been one of the first forays into the sword and sorcery genre by a black author. Saunders wrote and had published two more books in the series, The Quest for Cush in 1984 and The Trail of Bohu in 1985.
Sep 16, 2020 · Few Canadians knew about his other world. Inside, Saunders was a symphony of swords, beasts, heroes and villains, unfolding an epic adventure of an African warrior named Imaro in a world...
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Jul 16, 2021 · A tribute to the late fantasy author Charles R. Saunders, who created the hero Imaro and wrote the Dossouye novels. The blog post recounts the author's personal encounter with Saunders and his influence on the sword-and-sorcery genre.
