tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post6642344614927768626..comments2024-03-28T15:30:09.903-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: I Remember LemuriaJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-33212574863394925412011-01-29T13:23:34.417-05:002011-01-29T13:23:34.417-05:00I love the whole Richard Shaver story and am curre...I love the whole Richard Shaver story and am currently working on a comic book about Richard <i>Shaver's life, stories and art (for a sneak peek at chapter 1 (which I may or may not revise before the whole thing is done, visit:<br />http://aldeboran.blogspot.com/2010/11/evil-underground-chapter-one_06.html ). (sorry for spamming your blog to flog my comic --- hopefully other Shaverians will find it interesting).</i><br /><br>I'd forgotten about this project! How is progressing? I'd love to see it finally see print, because what I saw of your samples was amazing.James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-8916143234507642192011-01-26T16:30:49.352-05:002011-01-26T16:30:49.352-05:00I also ATTEMPTED to read some of Shaver's stor...I also ATTEMPTED to read some of Shaver's stories (including this one) due to my interest in hollow-Earth and such topics. However, I found the writing to be so bad that it was an impossible slog, and after finally finishing this story (with some skimming) and starting to skim another story long enough to realise it was the more of the same I had to give up in disgust.kipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986436534528705471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-42090281795309530362011-01-24T15:34:57.153-05:002011-01-24T15:34:57.153-05:00I've read Shaver's stories many times, chi...I've read Shaver's stories many times, chiefly because of their historical place in hollow-Earth fiction. Looking at them from our perspective, it's a bit hard to wrap your head around the level of excitement and devotion generated by Shaver and his "memories," at least initially. The stories seem rather pathetically dated now, but I suppose they were fresh at the time, and a sizable body of people latched onto them with the fervor of religious converts. They couldn't ALL have been paranoid schizophrenics ... could they? <br /> It would seem that Gary was familiar with the stories, too, since they seem to be the source for the derro (which Shaver spelled with one r).Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11677895164302972957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-34164336951130174622011-01-24T15:33:13.557-05:002011-01-24T15:33:13.557-05:00I love the whole Richard Shaver story and am curre...I love the whole Richard Shaver story and am currently working on a comic book about Richard Shaver's life, stories and art (for a sneak peek at chapter 1 (which I may or may not revise before the whole thing is done, visit:<br />http://aldeboran.blogspot.com/2010/11/evil-underground-chapter-one_06.html ). (sorry for spamming your blog to flog my comic --- hopefully other Shaverians will find it interesting).<br /><br />I understand the Shaver and Palmer had some pretty vehement disagreements about the way that the stories of the Shaver Mystery were presented. Palmer wanted to present them as 'ancestral memories' or out-of-body experiences --- so when Shaver would tell a story about being captured and tortured by the Dero, Palmer wanted to make it more "plausible" by explaining it as some sort of 'out of body' experience or ancestral memory. Shaver insisted that he, himself, had been in the caverns and was against Palmer's re-interpretation.Stefan Poaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192911890556534923noreply@blogger.com