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Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. Lovecraft parody) and Grail Undwin. He is best known for his work in the 1970s as editor of the Ballantine ...
Growing up, Lin Carter was fascinated by kids’ fantasy novels such as Oz by Baum, though he would later graduate to pulp science and fantasy fiction. He went to a cartoonist’s school and later served as a clerical typist during the Korean War between 1951 and 1953.
3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings. Lin Carter has 473 books on Goodreads with 88380 ratings. Lin Carter's most popular series is Thongor.
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- Conan the Buccaneer (Conan, #6) by Lin Carter, L. Sprague de Camp, Frank Frazetta (Illustrator)
- Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Rings.
- Flashing Swords! # 1 by Lin Carter (Editor/ contributor), Fritz Leiber (Contributor), Jack Vance (Contributor)
- Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria (Thongor, #1)
Callisto series. Jandar of Callisto by Lin Carter, Dell Books, 1972. The Callisto series is a sequence of eight science fiction novels by Lin Carter, of the sword and planet subgenre, first published by Dell Books from 1972-1978. They were written in homage to the Barsoom and Amtor novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs .
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Lin Carter has 473 books on Goodreads with 88391 ratings. Lin Carter’s most popular book is Conan the Buccaneer (Conan, #6).
Young Thongor, by Lin Carter, Robert M. Price, and Adrian Cole (Wildside Press, 2012) (ISBN 978-1-4344-4101-0) The Wizard of Lemuria (1965; revised/expanded as Thongor and The Wizard of Lemuria (1969)). In his introduction to the revised edition, "A Word from the Author", Carter reveals that the revisions consist of restoring certain passages ...
