I can understand that. I feel the same way about Ender's Game. It's holy, and it hurts to see the embarrassing knockoffs. Speaker for the Dead is the only exception.
I was going to say that I've never read any of that era of writing, but that's not true; I've read the Robert Howard book you and Tucker got me last Christmas. I think Stross manages to get the same feel, if not in his Bob Howard books then definitely in this short story.
But yeah, the plush-Cthulhu-crowd is definitely not that.
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Date: 2011-10-13 08:24 pm (UTC)I was going to say that I've never read any of that era of writing, but that's not true; I've read the Robert Howard book you and Tucker got me last Christmas. I think Stross manages to get the same feel, if not in his Bob Howard books then definitely in this short story.
But yeah, the plush-Cthulhu-crowd is definitely not that.