| Year : |
August 1964
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| Book No. : |
None
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| Edition : |
1st
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| Format : |
Periodical (7 x 10 inches)
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| Pages : |
20 (including covers)
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| Cover art : |
Dr. O. Raymond Sowers
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| Illustrations : |
Ray Garcia Capella, Roy G. Krenkel,
Dan Adkins, James Cawthorn, Robert E. Gilbert
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Contains a letter to Harold Preece, ca. October 1930
("Well, Harold, I’m sorry to hear your nose …")
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Non-REH
Content
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"Blunders"
by anonymous (editorial)
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"The
Free-Speaking Verses" by Poul Anderson (poem)
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"Conan
& Pizarro" by L. Sprague de Camp (essay)
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"Escape
Literature" by Grace Adams Warren (essay)
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"Thuds"
by anonymous (editorial)
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"Heldendämmerung"
by L. Sprague de Camp (poem)
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"Swackle"
by L. Sprague de Camp (essay, letter)
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| "On Mr. Pournelle
re Sword and Quarterstaff" by L. Sprague de Camp (essay, letter) |
"The Compleat
Duellist" by L. Sprague de Camp (essay)
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| "Swackle" by
Howard Waldrop (essay, letter) |
| "On Holding a
Sword Hilt" by Howard Waldrop (essay, letter) |
| Letter: "On Holding
a Sword Hilt" by Dick Eney (essay) |
| "Another
Swackle" by Dick Eney (essay, letter) |
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Editor: George Scithers
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First appearance:
letter to Harold Preece, ca. October 1930
("Well, Harold, I’m sorry to hear your nose …")
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Lithographed
in B&W with rose covers
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Amra is named
after Conan, who called himself by that name when he was a pirate.
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Amra is
about various heroes, mostly of sword & sorcery stories set in fantasy
worlds. Amra was started as the organ of the Hyborian Legion, a group
of Conan admirers who met annually at the World Science Fiction Convention;
Legion membership was open to all interested parties who showed up.
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