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Re:The Man Who Invented Fantasy by thedailymail on Monday October 02, 2023 @06:08AM (#37736163)
Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Fritz Lieber, and many others were publishing classic swords-and-sorcery tales well before the post-Tolkien fantasy boom described in this article.
Re:The Man Who Invented Fantasy by Finnucane on Monday October 02, 2023 @10:19AM (#37738487)
And, for the most part, not making a heck of a lot of money at it. Yeah, the article kind of overstates its case (I think that is required for academics), but it is also true that in a publishing-business sense, Del Rey had a huge effect.