Robert E. Howard, creator of the Conan stories, is often thought of as the "father" of the sword-and-sorcery subgenre of modern fantasy. If Howard is the "father," then de Camp, who revived Howard's work and then built upon it, must be the "stepfather." The subgenre's focus on an ancient and largely unrecorded past, on magic and the supernatural, on swordplay, and on adventurous quests, has been shaped in part by de Camp.
Typical of his sword-and-sorcery tales,.....
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