#lin carter

[smbhax]

Cover illustration by Roy G. Krenkel

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Cover illustrator unknown

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[tomoleary]

Roy G. Krenkel "As The Green Star Rises” by Lin Carter Preliminary Cover Art (c.1975)

Roy G. Krenkel "As The Green Star Rises” by Lin Carter Cover Art (1975)

[the25centpaperback]

Hurok of the Stone Age by Lin Carter, cover by Josh Kirby (1981)

[dvoeverie-stitches]

Header Image Inspiration or Checkout This ADHD Mindsuck

My ADHD hyperfocus was in overdrive last night when I stayed up too late playing with snapseeed’s double exposure feature to get a moody image of my eyes looking out over my new favorite wetlands area; a photo I took last week as we walked back to the car in near dark. I was loosely inspired by this Ballantine adult fantasy cover. And a certain vibe I get from a childhood favorite called The Witch of Blackbird Pond. ADHD includes several of these mindsucks a month. Fun, but ultimately pointless when I have a million other things that need doing.

[spacenoirdetective]

Roy Krenkel, cover art for "As the Green Star Rises" by Lin Carter, 1975

[oldschoolfrp]

Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age: A Wargamers Guide to the Age of Conan, by Lin Carter and Scott Bizar, with Roy Krenkel illustrations, FGU, 1975. Dennis Mize sculpted a range of 25mm miniatures for this game, appearing in Ral Partha's 1979 catalog.

[dragonatthedinnertable]

Out of all the fantasies written this century, The Lord of the Rings is the greatest, beyond all question. Professor Tolkien's magnificent three-part super-novel is the single most magnificent masterpiece in fantasy literature. In breadth of conception, depth of characterisation, scope of imagination, it stands alone... The first publication of that masterpiece...is likely to be remembered by connoisseurs of fantasy as a milestone, a major turning-point, marking the beginning of a new era. Fantasy can never quite be the same after Tolkien as it was before; every future writer who enters the genre of the imaginary world fantasy will be aware of Tolkien, just as every mountain-climber is aware of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Whole generations of new writers will be influenced by Tolkien and will seek to emulate him, to learn from him, and will attempt to equal his achievement...

--Lin Carter, The Young Magicians (1969)

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Carter might have been a derivative hack, but he knew how to anthologise fantasy. And he has an objectively correct opinion about Tolkien.