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'The Writer of Today'
Robert E. Howard, As a Literary Mirror
© 2016 James LaFond
AUG/29/16
Below is the dustcover and subtitle from my defunct and error-laced first book on Robert E. Howard, which I am correcting and rewriting a piece at a time for inclusion in Volume Two of A Well of Heroes.
The writer of today faces the same prejudices as the writer of Howard’s day, with mainstream readers recoiling from any depiction of a nonwhite or female villain, just as reactionary whites and masculinity advocates cannot abide the depiction of a diverse racial cast or of striving female characters. For the reader interested in realism in fiction, or in the question of the monolithic political correctness currently smothering any attempts at realism in fiction, whether in print or on film, Dark Art of an Аrуаn Mystic will illuminate the white, black and red corners of our collective imagination with that most hated and rejected shade of illumination, the gray of truth, which is sought by few and accepted by none.
The Racially Charged Fiction of Robert E. Howard
The selections for this book had been intended to illuminate Howard’s treatment of race in storytelling, and will therefore slant this volume in that direction, with the Race theme dominant. As a reviewer I was tempted to spread the re-worked content or Dark Art of an Аrуаn Mystic out. But on second thought, an effort to enforce an unnatural balance would be antithetical to the subject of this quest to connect on a textual and subtextual level with my dominant literary influence.
A Well of Heroes
‘A Species with Amnesia’
author's notebook
My Infernal Device
eBook
broken dance
eBook
ranger?
eBook
within leviathan’s craw
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taboo you
eBook
on combat
eBook
under the god of things
eBook
winter of a fighting life
eBook
the sunset saga complete
eBook
blue eyed daughter of zeus
eBook
logic of steel
eBook
song of the secret gardener
eBook
orphan nation
eBook
honor among men
eBook
son of a lesser god
eBook
on the overton railroad
eBook
uncle satan
eBook
triumph
eBook
the fighting edge
eBook
hate
eBook
advent america
eBook
fate
eBook
by the wine dark sea
eBook
cracker-boy
eBook
when you're food
eBook
your trojan whorse
eBook
barbarism versus civilization
eBook
z-pill forever
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night city
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thriving in bad places
eBook
fiction anthology one
eBook
predation
eBook
the year the world took the z-pill
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fanatic
eBook
the combat space
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masculine axis
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the first boxers
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let the world fend for itself
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sons of aryas
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dark, distant futures
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menthol rampage
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all-power-fighting
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america the brutal
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the lesser angels of our nature
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into leviathan’s maw
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time & cosmos
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logic of force
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beasts of aryas
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book of nightmares
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sorcerer!
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the greatest lie ever sold
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solo boxing
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the gods of boxing
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wife—
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the greatest boxer
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songs of aryas
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