Omnibus edition containing: The Man Who Loved Mars by Lin Carter The Valley Where Time Stood Still by Lin Carter Lin Carter - The City Outside the World by Unknown Author Lin Carter - Down to a Sunless Sea by Lin Carter

EPUB v3I see Gondwane as it shall be in the untold ages of dim futurity, near the time when the Earth shall be man’s habitation no more, and the great night shall enfold all, and naught but the cold stars shall reign. The first sign of the end ye shall see in the heavens, for Lo! the moon is falling, falling. And there shall come a man into the lands, a man not like other men, but sent from Galendil . . ."The name of the man is Ganelon Silverman—and this is the first of the classic science fantasy adventure series by Lin Carter!

Like Lin Carter’s other splendid “look behind” volumes (on J. R. R. Tolkien and H. P. Love-craft), this book examines the background and creation of the imaginary worlds of some of the most famous writers to appear in the field of Adult Fantasy, of which Ballantine Books is the leading publisher.IMAGINARY WORLDS is a book about fantasy, about the men who write it, and how it is written. It is a joyful excursion by a man who himself loves fantasy, into the origins and the magicks of such writers as Duns any, Eddison, Cabell: it examines the rise of fantasy in the American pulp magazines and delights in the sturdy health of “sword and sorcery”: it looks with pleasure on the works of some modern masters and knowledgeably explores the techniques of world-making.It is, in short, a happy exploration of worlds, and men, and writers, and writings, by an author whose enthusiasm for his subject is boundless—and is thus a joyous guide for fantasy lovers everywhere.

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