*Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Category for a John W Campbell quickie and the first part of our Lin Carter stock (with new additions). John W Campbell was a colossus of the Golden Age of science fiction, most famous for his editorship of the pulp mag Astounding, he brought into the field such all-time greats as Asimov, Heinlein, Sturgeon and many others. But his own writing should not be discarded. He wrote The Thing From Another World (later filmed twice), and his novel here is a vision of the first men on the moon. Lin Carter was a major figure of fantasy and sword and sorcery in the 1960s-1980s. Not only the editor of the famous Pan Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, for which he brought back into print many forgotten masterpieces of fantasy, he also wrote many scholarly works (eg on Tolkein, Lovecraft and the genre in general). As if that wasn’t enough, he wrote dozens of novels of fantasy and sword and sorcery, most often in series, including Thongor, his Conan clone and most famous creation. And of course, he also collaborated with others on new Conan novels. A renaissance man of the genre!
PICTURED:
JOHN W CAMPBELL: THE MOON IS HELL NEL 1975 1st UK PB GD/VG £4
BY LIN CARTER:
GREAT IMPERIUM #3: OUTWORLDER Lancer 1971 1st US PB VG/FN £5
MARS #1: THE MAN WHO LOVED MARS Fawcett 1973 1st US PB GD £3 (NEW)
THONGOR #2: THONGOR OF LEMURIA Tandem 1973 2nd UK PB GD/VG £3
THONGOR #3: THONGOR AGAINST THE GODS Tandem 1973 2nd UK PB VG £4
THONGOR #4: THONGOR IN THE CITY OF MAGICIANS Tandem 1973 2nd UK PB GD/VG £3
THONGOR #5: THONGOR AT THE END OF TIME Tandem 1973 2nd UK PB VG £4
THONGOR #6: THONGOR FIGHTS THE PIRATES OF TARAKUS Tandem 1971 1st UK PB VG £4