Survivor Appendix N Authors- LEIBER WINS!

[Paul Farquhar]

Bellairs, John 11
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 18
Carter, Lin 14
de Camp & Pratt 7
Dunsany, Lord 17
Fox, Gardner 7
Leiber, Fritz 17
Merritt, A. 16
Offutt, Andrew J. 14
Pratt, Fletcher 12
St. Clair, Margaret 14
Tolkien, J.R.R. 10
Wellman, Manley Wade 14
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 17

 

[Paul Farquhar]

And also not better than Gardner Fox?

Gardner Fox wrote for Batman!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

And yet Beowulf isn't mentioned once, where Tolkien is mentioned three times and Hobbits, Balrogs, etc. are mentioned.

And adventurer arrives in a settlement plagued by a monster. The hero kills the monster and is rewarded by the people of the settlement. However, that leads to a conflict with another, more powerful monster...

Sound familiar? Beowulf is pretty much every D&D player character ever.

It would be difficult to include the author of Beowulf in a list of authors, since no one knows who wrote it! The anaemic Rosemary Sutcliffe version would probably have been the only version available to Gygax, assuming he didn't read Old English. The Tolkien translation was lost, and Heaney's was written after 1979.

Like everyone, he would have been exposed to the story without being aware of it though. For example, one of the stories in Kipling's Jungle Book is a retelling of the first two parts of Beowulf, with Beowulf recast as a mongoose, and Grendel as a cobra. Kipling studied Beowulf at school, but he did have a rather expensive education.

 

[Harzel]

Correction for @happyhermit's missed votes.

Bellairs, John 11
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 18
Carter, Lin 14
de Camp & Pratt 7
Dunsany, Lord 17
Fox, Gardner 7
Leiber, Fritz 17
Merritt, A. 16
Offutt, Andrew J. 14
Pratt, Fletcher 12
St. Clair, Margaret 12
Tolkien, J.R.R. 11
Wellman, Manley Wade 14
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 17

 

[Harzel]

Bellairs, John 11
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 18
Carter, Lin 14
de Camp & Pratt 7
Dunsany, Lord 17
Fox, Gardner 5
Leiber, Fritz 17
Merritt, A. 16
Offutt, Andrew J. 14
Pratt, Fletcher 12
St. Clair, Margaret 12
Tolkien, J.R.R. 12
Wellman, Manley Wade 14
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 17

 

[Harzel]

Gardner Fox wrote for Batman!

Point taken. I was conflating 'goodness' with 'relevance to D&D'.

 

[chrisrtld]

Bellairs, John 11
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 18
Carter, Lin 14
de Camp & Pratt 7
Dunsany, Lord 17
Fox, Gardner 3
Leiber, Fritz 17
Merritt, A. 16
Offutt, Andrew J. 14
Pratt, Fletcher 12
St. Clair, Margaret 12
Tolkien, J.R.R. 13
Wellman, Manley Wade 14
Williamson, Jack 18
Zelazny, Roger 17

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Point taken. I was conflating 'goodness' with 'relevance to D&D'.

Gardner Fox's inclusion is interesting, as the only predominantly comic-book writer on the list. The "Graphic Novel" was not considered a valid literary form in 1979.


Talking of which, I have just noticed the absence of Neil Gaiman from the 2014 Appendix E.

 

[tglassy]

Bellairs, John 11
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 18
Carter, Lin 14
de Camp & Pratt 7
Dunsany, Lord 17
Fox, Gardner 3
Leiber, Fritz 17
Merritt, A. 16
Offutt, Andrew J. 14
Pratt, Fletcher 12
St. Clair, Margaret 12
Tolkien, J.R.R. 14
Wellman, Manley Wade 14
Williamson, Jack 16
Zelazny, Roger 17

 

[Tallifer]

Bellairs, John 11
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 18
Carter, Lin 14
de Camp & Pratt 7
Dunsany, Lord 17
Fox, Gardner 3
Leiber, Fritz 17
Merritt, A. 16
Offutt, Andrew J. 14
Pratt, Fletcher 12
St. Clair, Margaret 12
Tolkien, J.R.R. 15
Wellman, Manley Wade 14
Williamson, Jack 16
Zelazny, Roger 16