![]() Another recurrent note is the depression and the bitterness at the marginalization and derisory comments directed at the genre he loved best: speculative fiction. A couple of psychiatrists, several writers, publishers, adventurers, convention goers - the leading characters in the stories all suggest Wagner went for inspiration to the places he is most familiar with. "Why Not You and I" is a much better showcase for Wagner's talent, a collection of more subtle and more personal accounts of trauma and mental anguish that is all the more powerful for their real world setting and for their honesty hinting at autobiographical roots. It may be his most famous creation, but it is not representative of the artist's incredible range of interests and styles. Yet Kane is just one facet of Wagner's personality. Kane is a homage paid to Robert E Howard and Fritz Leiber, one anti-hero travelling the darkest paths of the human psyche. I became familiar with the work of Karl Edward Wagner by reading his series of dark sword & sorcery adventures featuring Kane, a man cursed with immortality and eternal failure for killing his (biblical) brother. They say all good friends must part someday,Īttributed to Janis Joplin, this melancholic tune is the leitmotif of this collection of genre transcending stories from one of the most underrated writers in the field of speculative fiction. ![]() ![]() Where all our friends have gone, my love, Look up and down that long lonesome road, ![]()
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