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Lemurian books pulse with a color and vitality that we miss in many of Lin Carter's later works. ... Yet to his relative inexperience we may also lay the blame for certain inconsistencies and failures to reckon with the implications of what he has written." Among these he notes "Thongor
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in July 1970, and reprinted in June 1976. The first
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The Xothic Legend Cycle: The
Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter
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1433:Year's Best
1251:anthologies
1235:Anthologies
1208:Lost Worlds
1192:Collections
1103:Mandricardo
1095:Dragonrouge
915:Collections
793:Black Tears
1648:Categories
1566:Nonfiction
1111:Callipygia
439:Green Star
354:Lin Carter
237:novels of
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199:city-state
167:Lin Carter
51:Jeff Jones
41:Lin Carter
1407:(2020/21)
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668:(1966/70)
660:(1965/69)
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596:Zanthodon
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57:Language
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1435:Fantasy
1354:Swords!
1087:Kesrick
648:Thongor
235:Barsoom
217:Setting
175:Lemuria
163:fantasy
79:Fantasy
60:English
1634:(1975)
1626:(1959)
1620:(1953)
1612:(1951)
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1237:edited
1227:(2018)
1219:(1997)
1211:(1980)
1203:(1969)
1184:(2004)
1176:(2001)
1168:(1979)
1149:(1984)
1141:(1978)
1133:(1971)
1114:(1988)
1106:(1987)
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1071:(1969)
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1012:(1967)
982:(2004)
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926:(1967)
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760:(1971)
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733:Novels
708:(2012)
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692:(1968)
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639:(1982)
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37:Author
1543:Other
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1122:Kylix
923:Conan
778:works
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725:Conan
350:Works
276:Notes
269:Locus
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227:Conan
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