LIN CARTER SCI-FI ITEMS 1953 FANZINE FANTASY POEMS BOOK

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Click Double your traffic. Get Vendio Gallery - Now FREE! THIS AUCTION IS FOR ISSUE OF 1953 FANZINE... GALLEON OF DREAM FANTASY POEMS BOOK. I BELIEVE THIS TO BE HIS FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK. Please see pictures. . I guarantee 100% that all items to be authentic .If you have any questions please contact me. 100%, money back guarantee. Lin Carter - FROM Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia..Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. Lovecraft parody) and Grail Undwin. Carter had a marked tendency toward self-promotion in his work, frequently citing his own writings in his nonfiction to illustrate points and almost always including at least one of his own pieces in the anthologies he edited. The most extreme instance is his novel Lankar of Callisto, which features Carter himself as the protagonist. As an author, he was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers. Carter himself was the model for the Mario Gonzalo character. He was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of Heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose work he anthologized in the Flashing Swords! series. Carter is most closely associated with fellow author L. Sprague de Camp, who served as a mentor and collaborator and was a fellow member of both the Trap Door Spiders and SAGA. Carter served in Korea, after which he attended Columbia University. He was a copywriter for some years before writing full-time. A chain smoker, Carter developed cancer in the mouth in later life and had to endure disfiguring surgery to have it removed. Never really eradicated, the disease subsequently spread to his throat, leading to his death in 1988. Carter as author As a fiction writer most of Carter's work was derivative in the sense that it was consciously imitative of the themes, subjects and styles of other authors he admired. He was quite explicit in regard to his models, usually identifying them in the introductions or afterwords of his novels, and introductory notes to self-anthologized or collected short stories. His best-known works are his sword and planet and sword and sorcery novels in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard. His first published book, The Wizard of Lemuria, first of the "Thongor the Barbarian" series, combines both influences. His other major series, the "Callisto" and "Zanthodon" books, are direct tributes to Burroughs' Barsoom series and Pellucidar novels, respectively. Other works pay homage to the styles of contemporary pulp magazine authors or their precursors. Some of these, together with Carter's models, include his "Simrana" stories (influenced by Lord Dunsany), his horror stories (set in the "Cthulhu mythos" of H. P. Lovecraft), his "Green Star" novels (uniting influences from Clark Ashton Smith and Edgar Rice Burroughs), his "Mysteries of Mars" series (patterned on the works of Leigh Brackett), and his "Prince Zarkon" books (based on the "Doc Savage" series of Kenneth Robeson). Later in his career Carter assimilated influences from mythology and fairy tales, and even branched out briefly into pornographic fantasy. Some of Carter's most prominent works were what he referred to as "posthumous collaborations" with deceased authors, notably Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. He completed a number of Howard's unfinished tales of Kull and Conan the Barbarian, the latter often in collaboration with L. Sprague de Camp. He also collaborated with de Camp on a number of pastiche novels and short stories featuring Conan. The posthumous collaborations with Smith were of a different order, usually completely new stories built around title ideas or short fragments found among Smith's notes and jottings. Carter is also notorious for his unfinished proj... read more

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