I’ll be tackling at least one of his collections later this year for the posts I’m doing at Black Gate on the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. In spite of the work involved at times, Smith is still very much a writer worth reading. (You see, kids, in the dark days before computers we had these things called dictionaries and when you didn’t know a word, you went to the dictionary and…ah, never mind.) And if Asimov had to look it up, then you know it probably wasn’t on the tip of everyone’s tongue. Isaac Asimov went on record complaining that he didn’t like reading Smith because he had to keep looking words up in the dictionary. Howard wrote poetry, some of the best I’ve ever read.) Unlike Howard, Smith’s fiction has a complexity to it Howard’s lacked, especially in word choice. Like Howard, Smith was also a poet as well as a fiction writer.
Howard (but then I probably don’t need to tell you that).
He was one of the Big Three of Weird Tales, the other two being H. Today marks the 122nd anniversary of Clark Ashton Smith’s birth.
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