The New York Review of Science Fiction Issue 309 May 2014 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Burrowing Wombat Press
Published: 2014-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

The Poe-like nineteenth-century flaneur imprinted itself on Weird Tales through figures like Clark Aston Smith. His type can be found in the countless avant-garde impresarios who do not quite replace villains in Jack Vance narratives. Drug addict, poet, surrealist sculptor, devoted fan of Baudelaire, Smith imagined bizarrely detailed landscapes in the most extravagant terms. Vance’s famous style is always both a quiet celebration and blatant satire of the lengths Smith was willing to go:

It was noon of a vernal day when I came forth from that interminable cactus-forest in which the Inquisitors of Ong had left me, and saw at my feet the gray beginnings of Yondo. I repeat, it was noon of a vernal day.... (Smith, “The Abominations of Yondo”)

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