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Post by deuce on Oct 20, 2016 19:30:15 GMT -5
Daniel Look's presentation on his stylometric analysis of Almuric: As he says, the jury's still out. The stylometric analysis seems very interesting. There are some great videos on this channel concerning REH. Watching this again, I'm really starting to wonder if Wright didn't just piece together two drafts like he said with minimal editing. That doesn't mean he didn't toss crap like "Thak's Jawbone!" and "carbines" in there, but one has to remember that Wright had Parkinson's. That's why Daniel Look has so much of a problem finding samples. Wright was so shaky, he only did minimal typing after about 1926. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth_Wright#Later_life_and_death
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Post by deuce on Oct 23, 2016 12:08:17 GMT -5
Roy G. Krenkel's rendition of Esau and Yasmina:
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Post by deuce on Nov 18, 2016 19:52:01 GMT -5
Many people don't realize that Almuric is one of REH's most reprinted works. There are several reasons. A major one is that it is one of Howard's few novels. Publishers far prefer novels over collections. Another factor is that it's "sword & planet". Almuric was published in paperback ( before the Lancers) as the '60s ERB boom got going for that reason. A third factor is that it was published in Weird Tales right after REH's death. That meant its PD status came up in the 1990s. Numerous publishers jumped all over it. A lot of publishers. Check it out: howardworks.com/storya.htm#almu
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Post by finarvyn on Nov 24, 2016 10:30:18 GMT -5
I'm about 3/4 of the way through the novel, having not read it in decades. A couple of thoughts: (1) Everyone compares Almuric to Barsoom, but I think it reads a lot more like Burroughs' Tarzan. (2) Does anyone else feel like the names ought to have been switched. I like the character name Almuric and planet name Esau, rather than the way REH did it.
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Post by themirrorthief on Nov 24, 2016 18:55:11 GMT -5
Almuric is pretty similar to Amalric. I also just read a story by Quiller Couch called the Statement of Highwayman Gabriel Foot. That would have been a much cooler name than Esau, yuck. Howard missed on that name for real.
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Post by deuce on Apr 3, 2017 12:06:10 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 18, 2017 16:41:20 GMT -5
Virgil Finaly illo for Almuric from the original Weird Tales appearance...
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Post by deuce on Jul 1, 2017 14:25:06 GMT -5
Just to throw more gas on the fire, here's this from last year: ashiverinthearchives.blogspot.com/2016/03/new-evidence-on-posthumous-editing-of.htmlWhile I think there might be something to Morg's theory, everything is up in the air now, for sure. I'm kinda leaning toward "Wright touched up the last part of the synopsis" theory now. A new stylometric analysis points to the last part being basically REH, but it would still allow for Wright adding in crap like "Thak's jawbone!" and "carbines" and "catamaran". Those are the glaring anomalies that Morgan Holmes first pointed out. Another thing to consider is that, by the time de Camp normalized the notion of posthumously "collaborating" with REH -- ie, the '60s -- almost all of the usual suspects were still alive, including Binder. They would've suffered no censure in regard to saying they touched up the last part of Almuric. Why not claim the credit? Wright died in 1940. infogalactic.com/info/Farnsworth_Wright
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Post by Von K on Jul 1, 2017 16:13:18 GMT -5
I used to agree with Morgan on the Otto Binder theory, but now strongly feel that Daniel's stylometric analysis, and the notion of Mr Wright combining the drafts and editing them slightly is now almost invariably correct.
Long time since I reviewed this material, but wasn't there also the issue of what some felt was a non Howardian ending. Could that be REH emulating ERB to some degree whilst tying to get his sea legs writing in a new genre, perhaps?
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Post by thedarkman on Sept 24, 2017 5:52:02 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 26, 2017 12:00:24 GMT -5
I saw this out on the Webz...
Whatever happened to...
ALMURIC: LOST GODS by Mark Ellis.
A proposed sequel to ALMURIC, a novel was due to see print in 2010 but never materialised. Ellis was a well known writer of Men's Adventure paperbacks for the now defunct Gold Eagle books on such series' such as OUTLANDERS and DEATHLANDS. He is also a popular comic book writer. I think it might have been interesting to see how he handled Howard's only foray into sword-and-planet...
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Post by thedarkman on Sept 26, 2017 12:21:46 GMT -5
I saw this out on the Webz... Whatever happened to...
ALMURIC: LOST GODS by Mark Ellis.
A proposed sequel to ALMURIC, a novel was due to see print in 2010 but never materialised. Ellis was a well known writer of Men's Adventure paperbacks for the now defunct Gold Eagle books on such series' such as OUTLANDERS and DEATHLANDS. He is also a popular comic book writer. I think it might have been interesting to see how he handled Howard's only foray into sword-and-planet...Hmmm...a lost opportunity? I wonder if there is a writer who could capture the essence of brute savagery that Howard poured into the character of Esau Cairn...
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Post by deuce on Oct 8, 2017 17:49:55 GMT -5
Rare Tim Conrad art for Almuric...
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Post by deuce on Apr 10, 2018 0:08:58 GMT -5
BREAKING NEWS!!!ALMURIC SIGNED AND NUMBERED PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE! A very special edition of ONLY 50 signed and numbered prints of Tim's wonderful Almuric cover art are now available directly from Tim Conrad. They measure 13" x 19" and are beautifully printed with crisp digital colors on a heavyweight semi-gloss stock. The colors have been carefully matched to be as close to the original painting as possible. The cost is $125 postage paid in the USA. Postage will be extra for shipping overseas. Please message Tim and Joann Conrad through their Facebook page or email them directly at cradcomm@Comcast.net 100% of the sales go directly to Tim. This is the print, sans text.
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Post by deuce on Oct 10, 2018 11:09:17 GMT -5
Almuric with a Frazetta cover! Yeah, I know that it's a reuse and wasn't painted as a cover for Almuric, but a good choice, nonetheless. I've seen some pretty wacky choices on foreign covers of REH books.
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