*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: It’s a kurious koincidence that so many fantasy heroes have names beginning with K or a hard C. In this update alone we’ve got Kandar (Kenneth Bulmer), Carson and Carter (both Edgar Rice Burroughs), Kothar and Kyrik (both Gardner F Fox). And it’s not just heroes – Burroughs’ The Moon Men has Kalkars as villains while Jack Vance’s The Blue World has King Kragen as the featured baddie. Heroically bucking the trend are Thundar, Man Of Two Worlds (John Bloodstone) and the Goddess Of Ganymede (Michael D Resnick), while the editor of an anthology, Swordsmen And Supermen opted to remain anonymous despite featuring Cap’n Kidd in one story. Not kontent (oh, leave off! ed) with focusing mainly on K, many of these books have great cover artists, including Jeff Jones (Kandar, Kothar Of The Magic Sword and The Goddess Of Ganymede), Ken Barr (Kyrik Fights The Demon World), Romas (The Amazons Of Somelon, Raymond Kaminski) and Virgil Finlay (Swordsmen And Supermen).