Comments on: A bit about sword and sorcery

By: pauljessup

pauljessup — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:08:43 +0000

Thanks! I’m a huge fan of the genre.

By: best razor

best razor — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:47:02 +0000

That was a really incredible piece of writing…

By: Paul Jessup

Paul Jessup — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:44:08 +0000

You’re kidding, right? You must be. Or it’s been a really long time since you’ve read the first few books in the series.

By: Fabien

Fabien — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:11:35 +0000

Michael Moorcock’s Elric is an example of S&S without piece of Lovecraft inside.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:48:41 +0000

I’m not complaining! It’s cool.

Oh, I know it’s a pure HPL influence. Howard wrote some Cthulu stories, there are some correspondences between the two, etc. Same with Lieber, I think. Although some pre-HPL writers, I would agree that it’s a similar existentialist way of looking at the universe

By: Max Cairnduff

Max Cairnduff — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:29:40 +0000

It just shows how far your influence extends.

Anyway, my argument there was that S&S embraces existentialism (as did HPL) whereas trad fantasy is still essentially Christian, I tend to think S&S is a profoundly existentialist genre. I think what you may be seeing is a common philosophical source in common with HPL, rather than pure HPL influence.

By: Paul Jessup

Paul Jessup — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:30:55 +0000

It always strikes me as funny when people talk about my blog posts on someplace other than my blog

By: Max Cairnduff

Max Cairnduff — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:19:09 +0000

Hey Paul,

Some of us are discussing this blog entry of yours over here: http://www.sfdiplomat.net/sf_diplomat/2008/08/you-may-have-missed-200808.html?cid=127142202#comments

Thought I’d mention it in case you were interested.

By: Matt’s Bookosphere 8/19/08 « Enter the Octopus

Matt’s Bookosphere 8/19/08 « Enter the Octopus — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:22:11 +0000

[...] Paul Jessup discusses sword and sorcery fiction [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:49:39 +0000

Lol. A lot of people have problems keeping sub genres separate. I love the micro classification, but it’s not for everyone. People should just write what they like to read, and let the critics classify it for them. Makes it all easier.

Thundar! I loved that show in my childhood. Not sure if it would hold up with hte test of time. Right, well the attitude of the show was similar to pre-history humanity- you have dinosaurs, the way people behave, society is barely existent. Even though it is post apocalyptic future, it still contain grains of pre history, if that makes sense.

Conan type person in early greek culture? Easily doable! Sounds like it would be a cool story