So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Christopher]

Could the Crom in B5 be a reference to his character from TRON? JMS does strike as the kind of person who could be a TRON fan.

You're getting mixed up. The mention of B5 was in reference to Peter Jurasik, not in reference to the name Crom, which does not appear in B5.

 

[Steve Roby]

But I was rereading some of Robert E. Howard's original "Conan" stories just a few months ago.

I also read a few of the Howard stories this year, along with a whole bunch of the 80s pastiches.

My first encounter with REH was around 1978, when I picked up a used copy of The Hour of the Dragon. It was a good time to discover Conan. At the time, there were three Berkley books of unedited Howard Conan stories and twelve volumes of Conan from L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, with occasionally edited Howard Conan stories, Howard stories about other characters rewritten to become Conan stories, and brand new Conan stories by de Camp and/or Carter. One thing de Camp and Carter got right was keeping most of the focus on short stories rather than novels. And then of course there were the Marvel comics. And by 1979 or so Ace put out a couple more novels and then Bantam did a run of six books, and then around 1982 Tor took over. I gave up maybe a dozen books into the Tor run. Got back in when Del Rey did its three volumes of pure REH Conan, and I've read one or two of the new Titan line of novels. Some of Tor's writers, like Robert Jordan, proved it's way too easy to fall into a formula writing Conan, but the new writers seem a bit more interesting.

The guy who really got me interested in Conan was the owner of the comic store I managed. Unfortunately, he took his own life in the beginning of September. I really wish he was around to talk about that Conan #25 with. He would have really loved it.

My condolences for your loss.

 

[JD]

There are edited versions of the Conan stories? Does anyone know if the editions that look like this are edited or unedited?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6606301-the-coming-of-conan-the-cimmerian

You're getting mixed up. The mention of B5 was in reference to Peter Jurasik, not in reference to the name Crom, which does not appear in B5.

Oh sorry, my mistake.

 

[Smiley]

I'm finishing up Star Wars: The High Republic Phase III with some of the novels and comics I have yet to get to. There are some great bits and characters in this project, but I don't think Marchion Ro and his group were interesting enough to warrant this many titles that deal with defeating him. I hope that Trials of the Jedi puts an end to his villainy one way or the other.

In the world of Trek, I am just starting Lost to Eternity. I'm a big fan of STIV and Gillian, so my hopes are high.