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Elak of Atlantis
Explore the origins of Sword & Sorcery with Henry Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis! Published in Weird Tales to satisfy fans of Conan the Barbarian in the wake of Robert E. Howard's death, the four long stories depict a brutal world of flashing swords and primal magic, touched by a hint of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Never collected in a mass market edition since their publi...more
Paperback, 221 pages
Published
February 5th 2008
by Paizo Publishing
(first published 1985)
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When budding author Henry Kuttner wrote a fan letter to the already established "Weird Tales" favorite C.L. Moore in 1936, little did he know that the object of his admiration was a woman...a woman who, four years later, would become his wife, and with whom a collaboration would begin that was ultimately recognized as one of the sturdiest pillars of the Golden Age of Sci-Fi. Such a melding of talents was Henry and Catherine Lucille's, it has been said, that if one of the two stopped writing to g...more
I read a couple of Kuttner's sci-fi short stories some years ago and had been very impressed. Since then I've been keeping an eye out for more of his work as it can be hard to come by. So I was excited when I spotted this volume of fantasy stories in the Library.
On the whole, I found it quite disappointing: the pace was too fast and the subject matter treated too 'pulpily'; had it been nearly any other author, I might have tossed it aside. However, some nice passages and Lovecraftian references...more
On the whole, I found it quite disappointing: the pace was too fast and the subject matter treated too 'pulpily'; had it been nearly any other author, I might have tossed it aside. However, some nice passages and Lovecraftian references...more
Sword and sorcery in Atlantis. Some perfectly entertaining stuff. Playful too. Kuttner adds a touch of humor to these tales of dark gods, sorcerers, would be conquerors and deposed royalty. He uses Lovecraft a bit much maybe, or is it that others have used it a bit much since then? For my money I think he's the better writer of the marriage (C.L. Moore), at least for fun sword and sorcery. As with all Planet Stories releases (well, maybe not all the Gygax): recommended.
My favorite Planet Stories book so far. An adventure story, pure as a baby seal. It rings my D&D bell like few other fantasies.
This Kuttner fellow could really write. Going to dig into more of his and C.L. Moore's work soon!
Aug 22, 2008
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Elak of Atlantis (Planet Stories) by Henry Kuttner (2007)
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Henry Kuttner was, alone and in collaboration with his wife, the great science fiction and fantasy writer C. L. Moore, one of the four or five most important writers of the 1940s, the writer whose work went furthest in its sociological and psychological insight to making science fiction a human as well as technological literature. He was an important influence upon every contemporary and every sci...more
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