- The Blade of Conan
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name = The Blade of Conan
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image_caption = "The Blade of Conan" edited byL. Sprague de Camp ,Ace Books ,1979
author =L. Sprague de Camp (editor)
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cover_artist = Sanjulián
country =United States
language = English
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genre =Essays
publisher =Ace Books
release_date = 1979
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media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages = ix, 310 pp
isbn = ISBN 0441116701
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followed_by ="The Blade of Conan" is a
1979 collection of essays edited byL. Sprague de Camp , published in paperback byAce Books . The material was originally published as articles inGeorge H. Scithers 'fanzine "Amra ". The book is a companion to Ace’s later volume of material from "Amra", "The Spell of Conan " (1980 ). Most of the material in the two volumes, together with some additional material, was reprinted from three previous books issued in hardcover byMirage Press ; de Camp’s collection "The Conan Reader " (1968 ), and the de Camp and Scithers-edited anthologies "The Conan Swordbook " (1969 ). and "The Conan Grimoire " (1972 ).The book consists of thirty-one pieces, mostly essays on
fantasy writerRobert E. Howard and his seminalsword and sorcery heroConan the Barbarian , Howard's sources and literary successors, and other fantasy authors such asEric Rücker Eddison ,A. Merritt andTalbot Mundy .Contents
*“Swords and Sorcery” (
Richard H. Eney )
*“An Informal Biography of Conan the Cimmerian” (John D. Clark ,P. Schuyler Miller , andL. 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)References
*cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | coauthors=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | pages=107-108 | date=1983
External links
* [http://www.barbariankeep.com/cnspell.html A Brief Comparison of The Conan Reader, The Conan Swordbook, and The Conan Grimoire with The Blade of Conan and The Spell of Conan]
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