<![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> He doesn't associate A.E. van Vogt with science fiction? Must not have read Slan. Its the ultimate fanboy fantasy: the hero is a member of a scorned but gifted minority whose parents die to save his life and leave him a hidden laboratory full of awesome gadgets. He also meets two women: a tough brunette willing to, ahem, show him the ropes, and a blonde who needs rescuing.

laughingacademy

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> Mongol General: "Conan! What is best in life?"

Conan: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."

Ah, Conan. A man's man. However, try watching the movies while using LSD. I'm sure it won't be pretty.

Silver_Back

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> @bellil: I sit corrected. Thanks. (He seemed older!)

RAHfanboy

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> @Scorpi:

Spiritual fiction?

Einstein-Intersection

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> RAHFanboy - Asimov was 1920 I believe, their cutoff was 1913.

bellil

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> Not to start a flood of missing author posts, but no Asimov?

RAHfanboy

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> @JesusDeSaad:
My uncle, who's only a few years older than I am, used to have them all. Until crazy Grandma threw them out! Arrrghhhh!

Many an afternoon was frittered away with those great books.


ltwass

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> Comment on Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell Thanks for the shout-out, io9. I agree that L Ron Hubbard is not one of the great or influential SF writers, but what can you say -- he did write a lot of SF. I have the same paperback edition of Conan -- my older cousin sent me a whole box of 'em in the early '80s. So awesome.

GiulioEteocles

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> @Jeff-Minor: Here's Ellison talking about L. Ron and that time...

+ Watch video

skallagrimsson

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> @braak: I don't know if it's apocryphal or not. At least 2 people have claimed to have heard L Ron make that statement. Of course, one of them was Harlan Ellison so...

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> I think the point of including LR Hubbard is because he is someone of great influence who used "sci-fi" ideas. Nobody's claiming he's a great master of sci-fi, though his many followers would surely disagree. And for sure, his connection with Aliester Crowley, Jack Parsons, the OTO, and the Babalon working connects him with all kinds of profound craziness involving UFOs, the space program, and modern magickal tradition.

Asari

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> @Jeff-Minor: It is generally accepted as an apocryphal story.

Though I believe it's true that he said, "If you really wanted to make a million dollars, you'd start a religion."

braak

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> So is it true that Hubbard made a bet that he could invent an idiotic relgion and people would still buy into it? He won the bet, I guess.

Jeff-Minor

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> Hmmm... Joseph Campbell should be added to that list of must-reads for SF

Scorpi

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> The best bit about this article is the photo. I HAVE THAT BOOK! Long live Frazetta.

JesusDeSaad

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> The coolest part of this whole article, is that I have the entire Frazetta cover CONAN series, INCLUDING Conan The Adventurer shown above, still intact from the time my uncle bought them.

They truly are a sight for sore eyes.

JesusDeSaad

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> @ManchuCandidate: Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing. Old L Ron isn't exactly on my shortlist of major cultural contributors. Hack novels and UFO cults aside could arguably be counted as cultural contributors but that's stretching it a bit.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber, with a little help from Micheal Moorcock, practically created the Sword & Sorcery genre. So thanks for that.

Regarding Hubbard - he's a sci-fi writer sure, but I wouldn't have called him a great one.

Belabras

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> I would very much like to glimpse what Robert E. Howard might have created, had he not killed himself so early, had he left Cross Plains for the Hollywood or New York of the '30s, had he lived as long as some of those people.

Rasselas

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> Any day that includes both C.L. Moore and Robert E. Howard is a good day.

Ed Grabianowski

]]> <![CDATA[Meet the "Partisan Generation" That Gave You LSD, Conan, and Joseph Campbell]]> L. Ron Hubbard? Shouldn't he be listed under other? When I hear about SF pioneers and greats, L. Ron isn't exactly high on my list or anywhere near my list.

ManchuCandidate

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