A swordsman may have a license to kill—but not to be rude. It's "The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death" by Ellen Kushner, from the September 1991 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction!
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Short Story Review: “The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death” by Ellen Kushner
(Cover by Bob Eggleton. F&SF, September 1991.) Who Goes There? Author, anthologist, and (curiously) radio personality, Ellen Kushner has been active off and on since the early ’80s. As fa…