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The Blade of Conan
1979
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Subtitle: The World's Greatest Living Fantasy Writers Pay Tribute to Robert E. Howard. Contents: “Swords and Sorcery” (Richard H. Eney) “An 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) “The Real Hyborian Age” (Lin Carter) “Lord of the Black Throne” (P. Schuyler Miller) “The Art of Robert Ervin Howard” (Poul Anderson) “Memories of R.E.H.” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Conan on Crusade” (Allan Howard) “A 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) “The Case for Solomon Kane” (John Pocsik) “Stirrups and Scholarship” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Howard’s Cthuloid Tales” (Ben Solon) “Controlled Anachronism” (Fritz Leiber) “The Novels of Eric Rücker Eddison” (John Boardman) “Hyborians, Be Seated [(The Fantasy of A. Merritt)]” (Ray Capella) “Mundy’s Vendhya” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Titivated Romance” (Fritz Leiber) “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) “And as for the Admixture of Cultures on Imaginary Worlds” (Leigh Brackett) “Ranging Afterthoughts” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Arming the Incomplete Enchanter” (Jerry E. Pournelle) “The Complete Duelist” (L. Sprague de Camp) “Rearming the Incomplete Enchanter” (Jerry E. Pournelle)

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L. Sprague de Camp
L. Sprague de Camp
Author · 69 books
Lyon Sprague de Camp, (Pseudonym: Lyman R. Lyon) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and biographer. In a writing career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred books, including novels and notable works of nonfiction, such as biographies of other important fantasy authors. He was widely regarded as an imaginative and innovative writer and was an important figure in the heyday of science fiction, from the late 1930s through the late 1940s.
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