The Independent - London, November 14th, 2000
IN 1976 the American writer Lin Carter, in an introduction to a book of essays, Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: the makers of heroic fantasy, by his fellow fabulist and at times collaborator L. Sprague de Camp, mused wryly that the way de Camp (then in his late sixties) looked after himself he would still be going strong at 90, whereas he, Carter, would by then have been a good "10 years in a cigarette-smoker's grave". Though never the most perceptive of men, Carter, in this, was unnervingly accurate. Carter died in 1988 of cancer (of the mouth); his friend de Camp died last week just shy of...
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