tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744833527939863023.post6955134704887345095..comments2022-11-10T04:26:24.129-06:00Comments on Grymvald Gazetteer: Revisiting Robert E HowardMark CMG Cloverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00160691331267309851noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744833527939863023.post-1026132759485235562011-10-07T18:11:23.853-05:002011-10-07T18:11:23.853-05:00True enough all around. Conjecture can rarely be ...True enough all around. Conjecture can rarely be proven. I'm just glad de Camp actually did do something about the Howard material he loved so much. It drew me toward genre fiction, particularly swords & sorcery short stories, which then got me into gaming and once D&D came out in 1974, I was hooked on Medieval Fantasy gaming and literature.Mark CMG Cloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00160691331267309851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744833527939863023.post-85047424554684347972011-10-07T02:12:56.930-05:002011-10-07T02:12:56.930-05:00It's hard to play the "what if" game...It's hard to play the "what if" game in regards to "what if de Camp never bothered with Conan and stuck to his science-fiction," mostly because there are so many vagaries. While it's possible REH could've languished in relative obscurity like Clark Ashton Smith, it's also possible that Glenn Lord could've done just as well without the various disagreements with de Camp.<br /><br />The thing about de Camp is that he was human, not some maniacal villain or some saintly hero: he made good decisions and bad decisions. He recognized that there was something in the Conan character that a lot of people enjoyed, even if he never fully recognized what that something was, and had something of a skewed idea of S&S in general. In any case, what's done is done, the unadulterated Howard stories are out there as well as de Camp's and Carter's, and there's no denying the cultural impact of the Lancers and Aces.Taranaichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.com