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Lin Carter

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born

June 09, 1930 in St. Petersburg, Florida, The United States

died

February 07, 1988

gender

male

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. Lovecraft parody) and Grail Undwin.

Carter had a marked tendency toward self-promotion in his work, frequently citing his own writings in his nonfiction to illustrate points and almost always including at least one of his own pieces in the anthologies he edited. The most extreme instance is his novel Lankar of Callisto, which features Carter himself as the protagonist.

As an author, he was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black...more

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Books by Lin Carter

Average rating: 3.79 · 7,868 ratings · 336 reviews · 154 distinct works

	Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Rings 3.40 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1969 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Flashing Swords! #1 by Lin Carter (Editor/ contributor), Fritz Leiber (Contributor), Jack Vance (Contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards by Lin Carter (Editor), L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton 3.62 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1976	My rating:
	Under the Green Star 3.51 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1972 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria (Thongor, #1) 3.34 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1965 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Flashing Swords! 2 by Lin Carter (Editor), L. Sprague de Camp, Michael Moorcock 3.48 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Spawn of Cthulhu by Lin Carter (Editor), H.P. Lovecraft 3.96 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Thongor Against the Gods (Thongor, #3) 3.33 avg rating — 52 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Jandar Of Callisto 3.37 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions	My rating:
	By the Light of the Green Star 3.71 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1974 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Series by Lin Carter

Thongor (6 books)
by Lin Carter

3.37 avg rating — 294 ratings

Flashing Swords! (5 books)
by Lin Carter (Editor), Roger Zelazny (Contributor), C.J. Cherryh (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Diane Duane (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Craig Shaw Gardner (Contributor), Tanith Lee (Contributor)

3.54 avg rating — 278 ratings

Callisto (8 books)
by Lin Carter

3.37 avg rating — 262 ratings

Green Star (5 books)
by Lin Carter

3.62 avg rating — 226 ratings

World's End (6 books)
by Lin Carter

3.46 avg rating — 125 ratings

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