tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post2008482512848807342..comments2024-03-29T00:32:33.920-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: Thunder in the DawnJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-67201238613266591472011-08-08T18:51:08.406-04:002011-08-08T18:51:08.406-04:00I reads this in a 1960's (early 70's?) col...I reads this in a 1960's (early 70's?) collection whose name I now forget. <i>Fantastic Swordsmen</i>, maybe. Definitely inferior S&S. Yet, perhaps exactly because of that, it also reminded me of a D&D game. Kuttner writing was pedestrian tot say the least, although I thought Lycon had some potential as a character and might have served as an inspiration for Moonglum.Matthew Slepinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04056247825064943944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-139245236573638742011-08-08T14:06:34.659-04:002011-08-08T14:06:34.659-04:00I think the Elak stories are fun, and I agree that...I think the Elak stories are fun, and I agree that Kuttner seemed to have stumbled on a certain formula that Leiber would later perfect with this F&GM stories, but certainly not among his most distinguished work.Andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14624614486574035692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-1707073373411861202011-08-08T10:29:45.408-04:002011-08-08T10:29:45.408-04:00Another Seabury Quinn story takes the cover illo o...Another Seabury Quinn story takes the cover illo on <i>Weird Tales</i>. Dude was awesome! And is still much under appreciated.radnoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11006466605445207729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-8078166624900728932011-08-08T07:33:14.919-04:002011-08-08T07:33:14.919-04:00'Assuming the name "Henry Kuttner" o...'Assuming the name "Henry Kuttner" occasions any recognition whatsoever, it's likely in relation to his wife, ...'<br /><br />I disagree. C. L. Moore was a great writer, but so was Kuttner. I used to ransack the library's collection of Kuttner stories. I also used to notice that Kuttner's story details tended to get ripped off in later sci-fi stories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-77996918065604275852011-08-08T06:10:22.282-04:002011-08-08T06:10:22.282-04:00I have 3 Kuttner books:
"The Dark World&quo...I have 3 Kuttner books:<br /> <br />"The Dark World" - Ace Books, 1946, features a quote from Marion Zimmer Bradley on the cover: "I consider the work of Henry Kuttner to be the finest science fantasy ever written."<br /> <br />"The Best of Henry Kuttner" - Nelson/Doubleday, 1975, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury entitle: "Henry Kuttner, A Neglected Master". The dust jacket identifies it as a "Book Club Edition"<br /> <br />"The Startling Worlds of Henry Kuttner" - Popular Library/Warner Books, features the same quote as the eariler book.<br /> <br />I am sometimes reminded of Stanislaw Lem (The Cyberiad, Tales of Pirx the Pilot).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-58193994927505598522011-08-08T01:16:39.783-04:002011-08-08T01:16:39.783-04:00I bought the Planet Stories collection of Elak of ...I bought the Planet Stories collection of Elak of Atlantis a few years back, but despite the praise from Karl Edward Wagner and Joe Lansdale I could never really get into the stories. I tried starting with _Thunder in the Dawn_ but it just felt flat. <br /><br />But to be fair to Kuttner, his two Prince Raynor stories are pretty good - perhaps because they were a bit more grim in their execution. Wagner called them something of a precursor, in their attitude and atmosphere, to Moorcock's Elric stories. <br /><br />Lin Carter supposedly said that Kuttner was a better writer of sword & sorcery than Howard himself. For such an astute editor, this is an amazing lapse of critical judgement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com