At 10:35 AM 2/23/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Terry Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: [rehfans] Amazon.co.uk Sword of South London
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>> Did this predate the DeCamp pastiches then?
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>I'll jump in. No. De Camp worked on the Gnome series between 1951 and 1957
>during which period all the original pastiches and editing were done.
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>Scotty
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Actually, Fantastic Universe published the pastiches as deCamp wrote them:
Oct. 1955: "Hawks over Shem" by Howard & de Camp
Dec. 1955: "Conan, Man of Destiny" by Howard and de Camp
April 1956: "The Blood-Stained God" by Howard & de Camp
Dec. 1956: "Gods of the North" by Howard
The first deCamp pastiche was FANTASY FICTION MAGAZINE, March 1953's
version of "The Black Stranger"/"Treasure of Tranicos" if I'm not mistaken.
So if they were asking Moorcock for Conan at the time they were folding
they had an audience from the Howard/de Camp stuff that had already run.
Steve Trout
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