this product is a breakdown of elements popular to sword and planet fiction and a very brief history of the genre. if you seek only pure emulation it will be helpful.

ultimately you get what you pay for here. wikipedia can provide you with more information than this PDF.

poor formatting, little content, and an assumed attitude that the genre can only provide very simplistic and childish stories mar this product from fully exploring the potential of the genre.

First rate introduction to the Swords and Planet style of fiction, and role playing. It is one of my favorite fiction genres. He give a list of sources and games. It was more popular in the early days of gaming with 3 John Carter of Mars games, and a half dozen others, but died out for a while in favor of harder sci-fi and medieval fantasy. But seems to be slowly coming back. One thing he missed is that like in the Conan style of Swords and Wizardry, many swords and planet does use magic or ESP type powers, but as in Conan et al, only villains tend to use it.