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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5230875" data-attributes="member: 6957">Unless, of course, you lived in Lapland. (Shallow pit mining to reach ore so pure that it had become magnetite.)I want to say that Poul Anderson beat Gardner to Star Metal, and I am pretty darned certain that Clark Ashton Smith beat him to lich.... I wish my Smith's weren't in storage, so I could look it up, but I am pretty sure we are looking at the 1930s or so.Whether E.G.G. read Clark Ashton Smith... is another matter - it is possible that Gygax borrowed from Gardner who borrowed from Smith, but that way lies madness.The Auld Grump</blockquote>