When I write one of these blog pieces I usually begin by reading all the stories concerned. This time around I haven’t. Let me explain.
Fantasy as a genre has many towering figures such as JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis and Robert E Howard. Some classic authors who preceded them, such as William Morris, Lord Dunsany, and even Lewis Carroll, also stand out high above the rest. These figures are well documented thanks to editors like Lin Carter and his Ballantine Fantasy series. Carter was also good at finding little known bits of fun in fanzines, ancient tales, and the pulps. Because of this, I am truly surprised when I discover an unknown (to me) fantasy novel from the 1950s.
Nobody wrote fantasy in the 1950s (excepting the well-noted Poul Anderson with The Broken Sword and Three Hearts and Three Lions, a few lesser Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales by Fritz Leiber, and of course, Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings). Other than these famous exceptions, most fantasy was disguised as science fiction in Planet Stories or as Jack Vance did it in The Dying Earth.
Read the rest:
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I saw that ad recently and was intrigued. Did you ever read the book?
I have a digital copy but haven’t got more than 4 chapters in. I need to read it all the way through.
I clicked “Look Inside” on the Amazon page for the digital version (PageTurner Editions). It appears that there are no quotation marks used for dialogue! Is the version you have like that?
My version has ” “.