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06-05-2011, 12:09 AM
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#391
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Scarlet Witch
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Frozen Wasteland
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I absolutely love the Kane series by Karl Edward Wagner. Put out in the 70's. Did anyone else read these? I actually even liked them better than the original REH Conan series.
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06-05-2011, 09:26 AM
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#392
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
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Re: Kane
Those stories were pretty cool, though I wish Wagner would have provided more of a definite origin for the character. I didn't enjoy Kane more than Conan, but almost as much, and Frazetta's covers were excellent!
Once upon a time, I had a hardcover collection of the shorter stories, The Book of Kane, published by Donald M. Grant in 1985. It had a jacket and several plates painted by Jeffrey Jones, who also signed and numbered the book. Why I ever got rid of it, I can't say. 
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06-09-2011, 08:33 AM
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#393
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
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Last night, I finished The Best of Gene Wolfe, a collection of his short stories. "Best" is hardly the adjective I'd use for it. I didn't enjoy them at all.
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06-11-2011, 03:43 PM
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#394
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,163
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Timeline of the Planet of the Apes by Rich Handley. He includes and somehow manages to incorporate pretty much the entire POTA mythos, including the 5 original movies, cartoon & regular tv series, the comics, novels & even the Burton movie. It's actually kinda boring but it's an easy read and fun for an Apes fan.
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06-11-2011, 09:27 PM
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#395
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What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Basement of The Alamo.
Posts: 1,601
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Stephen King - Full Dark No Stars. Good stuff.
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06-12-2011, 09:43 AM
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#396
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Baron Zemo
Join Date: May 2006
Location: we know each other, he's a friend from work
Posts: 16,341
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Is it an actual story or just a timeline fitting all the different movies and stuff together?
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Originally Posted by protector2814
Timeline of the Planet of the Apes by Rich Handley. He includes and somehow manages to incorporate pretty much the entire POTA mythos, including the 5 original movies, cartoon & regular tv series, the comics, novels & even the Burton movie. It's actually kinda boring but it's an easy read and fun for an Apes fan.
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06-12-2011, 10:46 AM
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
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Originally Posted by joefixit2
Is it an actual story or just a timeline fitting all the different movies and stuff together?
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Just a timeline. It starts, if you can believe it, in 1 Billion BC with a comet hitting a planet called Ashlar, creating hardship for the dominant lifeforce there as mentioned in the POTA novel POTA The Fall, and ends in 5041 w/ something that happened in an old Dark Horse comic. For each reference in the book, there's a sidebar on everypage on which you can easily find the original source material. By including the Marvel, Darkhorse, Malibu, gold Key, Topps, etc...comics and every published novel, cartoon & series, the timeline is extremely detailed and lengthy. There's also b&w copies of every comic book & novel covers ever made up to the books publ. The author somehow and much to his credit, strings it all together.
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06-15-2011, 09:53 PM
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#398
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It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere.
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: South Georgia,Usa
Posts: 4,782
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start the 10th book in the Sookie Stack house series "Dean in the family" today already 1/4 done lol
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06-17-2011, 04:09 PM
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#399
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Gorilla Grodd
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Dela-where??
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Oooo...book discussion!
Lee-- those books (and the show) are addictive like crack!
Right now I'm reading the first book of "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones"
If you guys haven't read them yet-- Hunger Games and Dragon Tattoo series are really really good.
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06-17-2011, 04:37 PM
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Scarlet Witch
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Frozen Wasteland
Posts: 7,872
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Babytoxie
Those stories were pretty cool, though I wish Wagner would have provided more of a definite origin for the character. I didn't enjoy Kane more than Conan, but almost as much, and Frazetta's covers were excellent!
Once upon a time, I had a hardcover collection of the shorter stories, The Book of Kane, published by Donald M. Grant in 1985. It had a jacket and several plates painted by Jeffrey Jones, who also signed and numbered the book. Why I ever got rid of it, I can't say. |
After Wagner died there were two books published that included every Kane story he ever wrote, usually you can get them on ebay (or could) I bought mine new from Amazon when they first came out.
"Midnight Sun" is the collection of short stories and includes some I didn't know existed like Kane in modern times and "Gods in Darkness" which is the collection of all the Kane novels that Wagner did. Both books are published by Nightshade Books.
If anyone has never read any Kane I would recommend the short stories first to get a good feel for who and what he is and then read the novels, but all are great, IMO. 
Oh and Midnight Sun also includes an essay that Wagner did but never published about the origins of Kane that might help you with the better explanation you are looking for. I know it helped me although it was pretty much what I thought.
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