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Welcome to the Lionel Fanthorpe Appreciation Page. For those among you not acquainted with
this literary giant, I hope you leave here enlightened and amazed.
Do not read too much Lionel Fanthorpe at one go, your brains will turn to guacamole and drip out of your ears. - Neil Gaiman
Magian Line Volume 1.3 Neil Gaiman News and Information Transit Authority October, 1993 |
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CRUEL SITE OF THE DAY JUNE 19, 2000:
R. Lionel Fanthorpe's Star Dreck
During the '50s and '60s, the science fiction novelist Robert Lionel Fanthorpe wrote an average of one new 158-page book every 12 days, dictating them into recorders for someone else to transcribe, correcting none of the logic errors, plot holes, and other gaffes so we could make fun of him several decades later.
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Who is Lionel Fanthorpe, you ask? Only one of the twentieth century's great undiscovered literary giants. During the heyday of pulp science fiction novels in the
fifties and sixties, Mr. Fanthorpe maintained an unbelievable output of one 158-page book every 12 days. He achieved this by dictating all of his material; essentially
thinking aloud. The results speak for themselves: "When he awoke it was pitch dark, dark as the pit, dark as the tomb, dark as the grave. A thick, black velvet
darkness that seemed almost tangible in its intensity. The kind of darkness that got into the pores of your nose...."
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