Planet Stories Spring 1947 — Sword of the Seven Suns Cover by Allen Anderson
A flame-haired warrior woman in gleaming silver armor dominates this classic Fiction House cover, blazing a ray-gun into a chaotic battlefield while a yellow-clad swordsman reels from a laser hit behind her. The composition crackles with pulp energy — swirling orange smoke, fallen combatants, and a clash of futuristic weapons against primitive swords, perfectly capturing the featured novelet's premise: a dying machine civilization reverting to the age of the blade.
A masterclass in pulp maximalism — ray-guns versus swords, a barely-armored redhead as the most competent person on the battlefield, and a sky that looks like the apocalypse ordered extra flames. Allen Anderson delivers exactly what the genre promised and then some.
“PLANET stories SPRING 1947 20c FICTION HOUSE MAGAZINES SWORD OF THE SEVEN SUNS Dead was the Machine-God. So the men of Klarn reverted to the Era of the Sword. A future-world novelet by GARDNER F. FOX Also WALTON BRADBURY HASSE WELLS”
