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The blade of Conan
Title
The blade of Conan / edited by L. Sprague de Camp.
ISBN
0441116701
9780441116706
Published
New York : Ace Books, c1979.
Physical Description
ix, 310 pages ; 18 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 8620: Title page verso indicates first Ace printing. Paperbound. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
Cover art by Sanjulián.
Collection of articles reprinted from Amra, "the amateur magazine published since 1959 by George H. Scithers."
Variant and related titles
Amra.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 31, 2021
Series
Ace science fiction
Contents
Introduction: Swords and sorcery / Richard H. Eney
The Hyborian age: Informal biography of Conan the Cimmerian / John D. Clark, P. Schuyler Miller, and L. Sprague de Camp
Ocean trade in the Hyborian age / John Boardman
Hyborian technology / L. Sprague de Camp
Real Hyborian age / Lin Carter
Lord of the black throne / P. Schuyler Miller
Robert E. Howard's fiction: Art of Robert Ervin Howard / Poul Anderson
Memories of R.E.H. / L. Sprague de Camp
Conan on crusade / Allan Howard
Gent from cross plains / Glenn Lord
Editing Conan / L. Sprague de Camp
Howard's detective stories / Glenn Lord
Howard and the races / L. Sprague de Camp
Case for Solomon Kane / John Pocsik
Stirrups and scholarship / L. Sprague de Camp
Howard's Cthuloid tales / Ben Solon.
Howard's colleagues: Controlled anachronism / Fritz Lieber
Novels of Eric Rucker Eddison / John Boardman
Hyborians, be seated (the fantasy of A. Merritt) / Ray Capella
Mundy's vendhya / L. Sprague de Camp
Titivated romance / Fritz Lieber
The complete swordplay-and-sorcery hero: Weapons of choice, I / W.H. Griffey
Weapons of choice, II / Albert E. Gechter
On weapons of choice and/or necessity / Jerry E. Pournelle
Son of weapons of choice and/or necessity / Jerry E. Pournelle
Range / L. Sprague de Camp
Sublimated bloodthirstiness / Poul Anderson
As for the admixture of cultures on imaginary worlds / Leigh Brackett
Ranging afterthoughts / L. Sprague de Camp
Arming the incomplete enchanter / Jerry E. Pournelle
Complete duelist / L. Sprague de Camp
Rearming the incomplete enchanter / Jerry E. Pournelle
Richard the lion-hearted is alivev and well in California / Poul Anderson
The heroic-fantasy story: Strange-sounding names / Marion Zimmer Bradley
One man's BEM / R. Bretnor.
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