{"id":483,"date":"2007-02-06T06:08:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T13:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2007-07-22T02:10:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T09:10:52","slug":"remembering-david-gemmell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/remembering-david-gemmell\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering David Gemmell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/gemmell_collage.jpg\" alt=\"gemmell_collage.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cimmerian readers have been well aware of the passing of fantasist David Gemmell (1948-2006). In <a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?page_id=351\">V3n10<\/a> I published an article by <em>Cimmerian<\/em> blogger Steve Tompkins called &#8220;Dog-Brothers,&#8221; that went a long way toward demonstrating how simpatico the author of <em>Legend <\/em>and thirty other fantasy bestsellers was with the work of Robert E. Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Now Steve has contributed to another, longer tribute to Gemmell, this one available online. Head on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/index.htm\"><em>Black Gate<\/em> website<\/a> and read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/articles\/gemmelllegacy.htm\">David Gemmell: An Appreciation<\/a>&#8221; by Tompkins and Wayne McLaurin.  <em>Black Gate<\/em> is currently edited by Howard Jones, a noted Harold Lamb scholar and a good friend of REH as well. Those of you who read the World Fantasy Convention coverage in <a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?page_id=434\">V3n11<\/a> heard all about Jones sticking up for Two-Gun on a WFC panel. Nice to see him also doing his part to honor David Gemmell at <em>Black Gate<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cimmerian readers have been well aware of the passing of fantasist David Gemmell (1948-2006). In V3n10 I published an article by Cimmerian blogger Steve Tompkins called &#8220;Dog-Brothers,&#8221; that went a long way toward demonstrating how simpatico the author of Legend and thirty other fantasy bestsellers was with the work of Robert E. Howard. Now Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}