Zanthodon (Eric Carstairs of Zanthodon #2)
Beneath the trackless sands and shifting wastelands of the Sahara, there lies a world unknown to modern man, the underground land of Zanthodon. In its vast unmapped terrain are great jungles, strange seas and forbidding mountains, and there can be found many of the beings that have long since vanished from the surface of the earth: dinosaurs, flying monsters and primitive...more
Mass Market Paperback, 185 pages
Published
June 3rd 1980
by DAW Books
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The book centers on a good if unoriginal idea: an underground city enslaved by man-eating mesmeric leech-slugs. Aside from the phylum of these overlords, this is heavily cribbed from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar.
It takes time for all the characters to arrive at the Gorpak city, which I find to be common in Carter's writing. The real story can't start until the characters are bussed to the expected set piece, and assorted dilly-dallying occurs. The cast is large, and every one of them must...more
It takes time for all the characters to arrive at the Gorpak city, which I find to be common in Carter's writing. The real story can't start until the characters are bussed to the expected set piece, and assorted dilly-dallying occurs. The cast is large, and every one of them must...more
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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...more
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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...more
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