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My understanding is that the Wagner estate is hoping to try and get a movie deal out of the Kane stories.
I'm sure that he's been mentioned be for. I might have been the one who brought up his name, but is there still any consideration for Lin Carter?
Any update on the possibility of getting the Kane stories?
Just wanted to add that I would love it if the covers could be made into prints/calanders.
Another series that, IMO, would be worth getting is the Kane series by Karl Edward Wagner. A sword and sorcery series set on a planet that with Lovecraftian horrors, strange gods, constant battle, and a rich history. Through all of this wonders Kane. A human cursed with immortality. As the first human to use violence he must now travel the world until killed by the same violence he brought into the world. To relive the boredom brought about by this eternal life he uses entire nations as chess peices to create massive slaughter and put himself in a position to rule. Until the boredom sets in and he is off to find new ways to amuse himself.
Would it be possible to get a collection of Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique stories?
What about some of the lesser known works of Burroughs. Meaning some of the novels that the estate let slip under their radar and go in to public domain. Like The Moon Maid.
Can't help you with any info on hardcopy editions.
Just came across this thread so if any of the names I mention have been used before, sorry. In a straight up fist fight I think that there are only three who could hold their own against Conan, Kull, King of Valusia
Using swords I'd add;
Be glad it was just PC points. If you search the web you'll find whole groups of people who have lost their humanity to those books.
IIRC, Andrew Offuitt wrote several sword and planet novels that are no longer in print. Cannot recall the titles of all of them except for one. King Dragon had the concept of a madman using recreated genetic material and recombined material to populate a planet with dragons, prehistoric beasts and other weird alien lifeforms to fit his concepts of what a "barbaric and savage" world should be like.
It was the Gor books by John Norman. I'm half-embarassed to have read a few. I really liked the fantastic elements of the world he had envisioned; the whole "slave girl" thing was too wanky for me. Your right. It was that series. I remember getting as far as the fifth book. The whole slavery/sex plot became so overbearing that I gave up on it.
--Erik
John Carter was either teleported to Barsoom or did some form of astral projection that recreated his body on the planet. Kane got to Mars through a teleportation accident. Carson got to Burroughs Venus by miscalculatining the trajection of his spacecraft. In Lin Carter's series the main character got to one of the moons of Jupiter by going through an ancient teleportation device located in a Cambodian jungle. I also recall one series where the main character, along with several additional characters in the series, were kidnapped and taken to a planet that was in a opposite orbit from Earth.There was also a series, in the 70's I belive, where the main character found himself in a new body, on an alien world, after an attempt to download his mind into a computer system. you could consider this a formof teleportation that only shifted the mental abilities of the character and left all the physical. So it would seem that teleportation or spaceship are the two most common ways to travel from earth to an alien world.
John Carter, now and forever!
There is currently a Mars D20 game on the market. Done, in part, by the writer of the "Iron Lords of Jupiter", writer.
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