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Of course that depends on your Arthur . . . Arthur from The Once and Future King had a few more foibles than Arthur from La Morte d'Arthur.

Arthur in Le Morte D'Arthur takes all the newborn boys in his kingdom away from his parents and sends them off to sea because the child of his incestuous affair is prophesized to kill him.

I say that counts as a foible, and argues against "lawful good."

Dr. 3 wrote:

Quran and Bible aside

Thats a huge segment of the population and a significant period of time to set aside.

Except that those cultures, you know, don't prohibt intoxicants.

Alcohol is used throughout the "Christian" world, as were other substances at various times including cocaine, opiates (laudunum), tobacco, caffeine, and cannabis.

Ditto the Muslim world--as alcohol can still be found in some Islamic nations today, despite the Prophet's prohibition. To say nothing of caffeine, kef, cannabis, etc.

And then of course, their are the countries without religious prohibitions.

Many of these things are outlined in the wikipedia article you thoughtfully cited, but apparently didn't read.

Most of society has always condemned recreational drug use (especially refined drugs). I beleive there are old testament and Koran verses on the subject.

Quran and Bible aside, most cultures have not in fact put a blanket prohibition recreational drug use. See the use of alcohol throughout most human cultures, or the use of tobacco. Or caffeine.

Also check out D.C.A. Hillman's book The Chemical Muse for a look at drug use in the classical world, medicinal and otherwise.

I think the Nifft stories are still in print from Baen. And Nightshade published Imaro and Imaro 2 in the last couple of years. I hear through the grapevine that they had high hopes for the series, but that sales were not great.

Nightshade published the Imaro novels--not the short stories, which (other than the ones which were cannibalized for the first novel) have never been collected. But yeah, I don't think the sales were great.

I would suspect Baen doesn't still have Nifft in print as the only copies amazon has are from independent sellers.

Let me just say thanks for bringing the works of CL Moore and Leigh Brackett back into print. I have multiple versions of Northwest Smith and stark colelctions, but I'm always glad to buy another to try to keep 'em around.

suggestions:

"Flame Winds" by Norvell Page - Prester John as a sword and sorcery hero, by the author of most of the Spiders pulp adventures.

The "Nifft the Lean" stories of Michael Shea. Clark Ashton Smith-flavored.

Too bad Charles Saunders doesn't seem to want the original Imaro stories in print, because those would be perfect.