{"id":8468,"date":"2009-12-16T04:36:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T16:17:53","slug":"more-el-borak-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/more-el-borak-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More El Borak<\/em> News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over at the Official Robert E. Howard Forum<\/a><\/em>, Paradox rep Jay Zetterberg proffered REH fandom the lowdown\u00a0regarding the final contents of El Borak and\u00a0Other Desert Adventures<\/a><\/em>. This volume, due out\u00a0February 2, 2010\u00a0from Del Rey\/Ballantine, looks like another keeper. For those not\u00a0willing or able to click over to\u00a0conan.com<\/a>, I\u00a0reproduce the table of\u00a0contents (and submit some random thoughts of my own) below.<\/p>\n

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El Borak by Bradstreet<\/p><\/div>\n

Artists’ Forewords
\nIntroduction (Steve Tompkins)
\nSword of the Hills
\nThe Daughter of Erlik Khan
\nThree-Bladed Doom (long)
\nHawk of the Hills
\nBlood of the Gods
\nSons of the Hawk
\nSon of the White Wolf
\nGold from Tartary
\nSwords of Shahrazar
\nTrail of the Blood-Stained God
\nThe Fire of Asshurbanipal<\/p>\n

Miscellanea:
\nThree-Bladed Doom (short)
\nUntitled Fragment (“Feel the edge, dog, and move not!”)<\/p>\n

Appendices:
\nGunfighters of the Wild East (David A. Hardy)
\nNotes on the Original Howard Texts<\/p>\n

Looks like a solid package to me.\u00a0It’s easy to see why the Publishers Weekly<\/em> reviewer liked it<\/a>. The “Artists’ Forewords” should be interesting. I’m especially looking forward to what Tim Bradstreet has to say, since I’ve never read his opinions regarding Robert E. Howard.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0anyone ever mentioned that Steve Tompkins<\/a>\u00a0had written the introduction to this volume, I wasn’t aware of it. That is fantastic news. One of the first things I ever read by Tompkins was his “There’s a White Wolf on the Ottoman” essay from The Dark Man #6<\/a><\/em>. The man had real insights regarding Francis X. Gordon. I’m assuming that this will be the last such piece we will ever\u00a0see from the keyboard of Mr. Tompkins.\u00a0Howard Studies will feel that\u00a0lack\u00a0in the future.<\/p>\n

“Gold\u00a0from Tartary” had me slightly bemused until I realized that it must be an alternate title for the Kirby O’Donnell<\/a> yarn,\u00a0“The Treasures of Tartary.” Some of the El Borak titles may also\u00a0sound unfamiliar to long-time REH fans. I suggest going here<\/a> to sort things out. I’m looking forward to reading the “Untitled Fragment,” which, according to Paul Herman, is the first four pages of an alternate version of “Swords of Shahrazar.” I’ve also never read the\u00a0“short version” of “Three-Bladed Doom.” That particular yarn has an interesting history behind it. If you’re curious, click on over to REH: Two-Gun Raconteur<\/em> and check it out.<\/p>\n

David A. Hardy has long been considered one\u00a0of Howardom’s most knowledgeable and thoughtful scholars in regard to REH’s “desert adventures.” He earned his credibility with ground-breaking, well-researched\u00a0essays like “The Great Game” and “Indomitable Wildness, Unquenchable Vitality,” both written for The Cimmerian<\/a><\/em>. I have no doubt that Mr. Hardy’s “Gunfighters of the Wild East” will be up to his previous standards.<\/p>\n

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Over at the Official Robert E. Howard Forum, Paradox rep Jay Zetterberg proffered REH fandom the lowdown\u00a0regarding the final contents of El Borak and\u00a0Other Desert Adventures. This volume, due out\u00a0February 2, 2010\u00a0from Del Rey\/Ballantine, looks like another keeper. For those not\u00a0willing or able to click over to\u00a0conan.com, I\u00a0reproduce the table of\u00a0contents (and submit some random […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reh-and-history","category-news","category-the-cimmerian-print-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16766,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions\/16766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}