#swordandsoul — Public Fediverse posts

I am living for Jon Tattrie's biography of Saunders right now. So interesting! Highly recommended. And of course we're reading Imaro for TriCon.

And I'm really curious about that quote by Bell that "probably the chief reason that Ottawa has emerged as the fantasy capitol of Canada is...Saunders" (fourth picture) - I wonder if there's a direct line from his group of #Ottawa fantasists to James Botte and Farrell McGovern founding Can*Con in '91. Anybody know? (Or maybe this is later in the book! I am only on page 68.)

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It's a Deep Cut in a Howardian Vein this week as we look at “Hyborian Africa” (1980) & “To Kush and Beyond: The Black Kingdoms of the Hyborian Age” (1980), two essay by Charles R. Saunders that reflect on Robert E. Howard's Conan stories and the Black people in them.

https://deepcuts.blog/2024/09/21/hyborian-africa-1980-to-kush-and-beyond-the-black-kingdoms-of-the-hyborian-age-1980-by-charles-r-saunders/

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