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These articles originally published in Amra magazine and curated by L Sprague de Camp, with material split between stuff only of interest to the true Howard enthusiast, and more general subject matter pertinent to writing Howard-style stories.
It leads off with the most deadly-dull of the bunch, an "informal biography" of Conan reading like a stack of story summaries welded together and treating the Lin Carter / de Camp / etc pastiches-rewrites-fragment completions as equally valid as the Howard ...more
It leads off with the most deadly-dull of the bunch, an "informal biography" of Conan reading like a stack of story summaries welded together and treating the Lin Carter / de Camp / etc pastiches-rewrites-fragment completions as equally valid as the Howard ...more
essays about the character of Conan, created by Robert E. Howard. Over the years I've read a lot of such articles, which are mostly fan based ones. This book has some articles by pro writers who have worked in the Conan series and some good stuf about backgrounds. Enjoyable. Didn't light me on fire.
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