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Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Fritz Lieber, and many others were publishing classic swords-and-sorcery tales well before the post-Tolkien fanta
by thedailymail 3y ago
Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Fritz Lieber, and many others were publishing classic swords-and-sorcery tales well before the post-Tolkien fantasy boom described in this article.
- Finnucane 3y agoAnd, for the most part, not making a heck of a lot of money at it. Yeah, the article kind of overstates its case (I think that is required for academics), but it is also true that in a publishing-business sense, Del Rey had a huge effect.