but check out this cover blurb on Star Barbarian:
Centuries before the multiwave-drive ships had come to Morkath of the Caravan Stars--bringing colonists, empires, confederations of plunderers. Finally, the planet was exhausted and left to descend into barbarism.
Now, savage tribal leaders fought over the blighted lands. Among those warriors was the young hunter Jamnar, who vowed to reclaim Morkath from the demonic powers that gripped it--the dark god Shaphath, the priestesses of Astaphar, the evil priests called Kvununun...
The mighty Jamnar would have aid in his quest. Prosperon, the interstellar castaway, would lead him to the forbidden temple of Telshasoth. But only if Jamnar himself dared to enter the temple's portals--and therein seize the 3000-year-old secret of a lost civilization--could he hope to save his people and a planet plunged into infamy and terror...How could I pass that up?
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That last cover looks like when Battle Cat finally turns on He-Man.
You can't pass that up. You just can't and if you did I would have been ashamed of you. That sounds like a night of very fun reading indeed. I'm curious about that Book of the Weird. I've had so many versions of those kind of books through the years, I wondering whether its its a rehash your typical stuff or if it into new territory and things.
"You can't pass that up. You just can't and if you did I would have been ashamed of you."
Ha, exactly what I was thinking. And now, *I* can't pass them up....
Just bought "Star Barbarian" on those two words alone! Warning, shamless plug.
I was about to run off to Amazon and plunk down 2.99 for "The Book of Weird" but as I was about to place it in my shopping basket, I realized that it was retitled edition of "The Glass Harmonica" by the same author.
Strong reccomendation. I guess people would classify it as a "kid's book," but it's one of those books I like as much or more than when I first picked it up. It was probably originally written in the 1960s or 1970s and hasn't aged at all.
A lot of the tropes and cliches that The Book of Weird cites and makes light of have arguably been "done to death" in the decades since its publication, but there's a lot to be said for its earlier, fresher approach to them. The artwork is likewise endearing. I've had my copy since a few years before I started playing D&D in the '70s, and its images remain my benchmark for imagining things like ogres (one vs. three-eyed varieties) and wyverns (a wonderfully dynamic, if wingless, image in the "Dragons" section)
Nice finds!
Star Barbarian has some great cover art by Jeff Jones, and I am loving that Steranko piece on Lord of Blood. Never heard of Dave Van Arnam but I am intrigued.
Star Barbarians is kind of fun. Glad you found a copy. The Steranko cover is probably the best part...but it is worth taking a look...and it does fairly reek of interesting gaming ideas like that temple with the 3,000-year-old secret, etc. Fun stuff!
I had never seen Star Barbarian before this post, but am seriously digging that curved polearm (bigass almost an Exalted style naginata?) on the Jeff Jones cover.
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