Posted by Frank Denton on January 28, 1999 at 20:13:06:
In Reply to: Re: Clark Ashton Smith posted by John Robinson on January 28, 1999 at 19:31:17:
: Fired up the trusty Grolier Science Fiction Encyclopedia CD. Re CAS they say "of most interest to the sf reader as a fantasist whose rich style and baroque invention had a loosening effect on the SF field, doing much to transform the interplanetary romance of the early years of the century into the full-fledged 'planetary romance', whose characteristic attitude towards the far future and the possibilities therein was capitalized upon by JACK VANCE and others."
: CAS 1893-1961 wrote most of his fantasy of note between 1930 and 1936 after which he virtually stopped writing. He was "not much interested in science, or in expressing the forward thrust of conventional sf, and it is perhaps inadvisable to think of him in sf terms. His work is better considered in conjunction with the weird fantasies written by his friend H.P. Lovecraft and by Robert E. Howard. His best work has not dated."
: A lot of his work seems to have been reprinted over the last 20 years in England mostly in chaps.
: Sounds a lot like the "fantasy" JV to me.
: John