tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post5931860737393751106..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: "Homaging" the bestEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-44573615168903811172007-03-11T19:48:00.000-07:002007-03-11T19:48:00.000-07:00Carter wrote some of the worst prose ever publishe...Carter wrote some of the worst prose ever published, and Robert E. Howard fans curse his memory for propagating those terrible Conan pastiches, but my God, the guy was all over the newsstands in his heyday from a dozen different publishers (Dell, DAW, Berkley, Fawcett, Ace ...), so somebody must have been buying.<BR/><BR/>My favorite of the '60s/early '70s paperback SF guys was the late Keith Laumer. Laumer might have been almost as imitative as Carter in his own way (Carter mostly imitated Lovecraft, Howard, and Burroughs -- Laumer's stories were strongly flavored by Van Vogt, Heinlein, and Chandler), but he was a fine storyteller who always gave good read. Luckily, some of his best stuff (DINOSAUR BEACH, GALACTIC ODYSSEY, A TRACE OF MEMORY, THE DAY BEFORE FOREVER) has been reprinted in recent years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com