102: Blood and Trumpets in the Rastan Saga

[The Escapist Staff]

"Where Tolkein had the heroes of the realm respond to a great threat, Robert E. Howard's heroes are self-motivated outsiders come to make their mark and tell their own story. The worlds they inhabit are different in scope in order to make this possible; the Fellowship responds to a threat to the status quo; Conan, well, he's come to cut off the status quo's head."

Christian McCrea conquers the Rastan Saga, and it's homage to Robert E. Howard's Conan stories.

Blood and Trumpets in the Rastan Saga

 

[Bongo Bill]

The article mentions the low-fantasy genre invented and largely defined by Robert E. Howard. If you're interested in him, there's no need to venture farther than Wikisource [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Robert_E._Howard].

It is interesting to note that there is an article about Howard fantasy and Lovecraft fantasy in the same issue; Howard and Lovecraft were correspondents and, apparently, friends.