Happy Birthday Lin Carter!

As a writer, I confess I didn't think much of Carter, (the truth is, he was a hack). But he was a great scholar and brilliant editor of Fantasy literature. His deal with Ballantine Books to reprint so many of the classics, as well as to put in print new authors, created a renaissance in the literature that's never been equaled and literally created a whole generation of fans, myself included.

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