"David Drake - John The Balladeer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Drake David)

ISBN: 0-671-65418-7


First printing, July 1988

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America




Introduction to the
Electronic Publication
ofJohn the Balladeer
Manly Wade Wellman was one of the most successful fantasy and SF writers of the '30s and '40s. His
SF was generally of a juvenile nature, popular at the time but of limited interest today. His fantasy,
however, was thoroughly adult. While Lovecraft and Howard were writing, Manly was in the second
rank ofWeird Tales authors; after they died, he became one of the magazine's mainstays.

Despite the high quality of his earlier fantasies, Manly didn't really hit his stride in the field until in 1949
appearedThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction тАФa digest magazine which would publish
fantasy of the highest literary quality. ForF&SF Manly created John the Balladeer, drawing on his
existing knowledge of folk music and folklore and his growing love of the North Carolina mountains.

The stories of John the Balladeer are some of the best American fantasies ever written. They were
powerful influences on me before I moved to North Carolina and met Manly; and it was in conscious and
deliberate awareness of them that I wroteOld Nathan as my homage and memorial to my friend after his
death.



Dave Drake
david-drake.com




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