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Ningauble · 20th January 2008, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Nesacat

I'll try and get my paws on a copy when I get there for Eastercon.

You'll be going to Eastercon? Look for the slightly lost-looking, bespectacled Swede with the Lovecraft-themed T-shirt. That's me.

Nesacat · 21st January 2008, 08:55 AM

Yay Ningauble ... it will be great to meet you. Always good to meet another Lovecraftian. There's hardly anyone here who reads his works. I'll probably make serious attempts to swipe the t-shirt.

I have a couple too.

There's a bunch of us going if you look in the Eastercon thread under Conventions. You should be able to find me if you find Morpheus who is 6'5" and thin.

I've been almost chaining my close friends down and forcing them to read.

pyan · 21st January 2008, 05:05 PM

So, basically I'd be looking for Fafhrd and a Black Panther, near the bar......

Ningauble · 25th January 2008, 01:27 PM

I got H. P. Lovecraft in Britain today!!

Interesting thing I spotted immediately: The forthcoming Gollancz Necronomicon will apparently have "all Lovecraft's major weird fiction (but excludes the minor juvenilia and the majority of the author's 'revisions')".

It also states that "Gollancz decided to work from the 'classic' texts created by Arkham House and Weird Tales but made a number of corrections and revisions based on the vast amounts of research that has been done by Lovecraft scholars over the past two decades".

Hmmm... I don't know. Yet another text version?
If it says "Inquanok" instead of "Inganok" and "dhole" instead of "bhole" in "The Dream-Quest of Uknkown Kadath", and "seven cryptical books of earth" instead of "seven cryptical books of Hsan" in "The Other Gods", I'm going to scream.
But I'll get the bloody book anyway, because the illustrations seem pretty cool.

Nesacat · 25th February 2008, 11:05 AM

I've several editions and doubles of Lovecraft's work and I keep picking them up.

Sometimes it's the illustrations; sometimes it's the cover art; sometimes it's a need to see the differences in the text and there are plenty of those (have been learning about a lot more since Chrons).

Sometimes it's just to give them a home and perhaps pass them along to someone else.

I suspect I'll be doing this for a long time to come.

21st January 2008, 08:55 AM	#17 (permalink)
Nesacat The Cat Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malaysia Posts: 3,292	Re: Lovecraft in Britain... Yay Ningauble ... it will be great to meet you. Always good to meet another Lovecraftian. There's hardly anyone here who reads his works. I'll probably make serious attempts to swipe the t-shirt. I have a couple too. There's a bunch of us going if you look in the Eastercon thread under Conventions. You should be able to find me if you find Morpheus who is 6'5" and thin. I've been almost chaining my close friends down and forcing them to read.

21st January 2008, 05:05 PM	#18 (permalink)
pyan Ubi amici, ibi opes... Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Southampton Posts: 7,890	Re: Lovecraft in Britain... So, basically I'd be looking for Fafhrd and a Black Panther, near the bar......

25th January 2008, 01:27 PM	#19 (permalink)
Ningauble Lovecraftian Join Date: May 2007 Location: Sweden Posts: 595	Re: Lovecraft in Britain... I got H. P. Lovecraft in Britain today!! Interesting thing I spotted immediately: The forthcoming Gollancz Necronomicon will apparently have "all Lovecraft's major weird fiction (but excludes the minor juvenilia and the majority of the author's 'revisions')". It also states that "Gollancz decided to work from the 'classic' texts created by Arkham House and Weird Tales but made a number of corrections and revisions based on the vast amounts of research that has been done by Lovecraft scholars over the past two decades". Hmmm... I don't know. Yet another text version? If it says "Inquanok" instead of "Inganok" and "dhole" instead of "bhole" in "The Dream-Quest of Uknkown Kadath", and "seven cryptical books of earth" instead of "seven cryptical books of Hsan" in "The Other Gods", I'm going to scream. But I'll get the bloody book anyway, because the illustrations seem pretty cool.

25th February 2008, 11:05 AM	#20 (permalink)
Nesacat The Cat Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malaysia Posts: 3,292	Re: Lovecraft in Britain... I've several editions and doubles of Lovecraft's work and I keep picking them up. Sometimes it's the illustrations; sometimes it's the cover art; sometimes it's a need to see the differences in the text and there are plenty of those (have been learning about a lot more since Chrons). Sometimes it's just to give them a home and perhaps pass them along to someone else. I suspect I'll be doing this for a long time to come.

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