Summary
Clark Ashton Smith: The Book of Ebons
The Book of Ebons by Clark Ashton Smith is the lesser-known twin sister of H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon. Unlike the writers closest to him, Lovecraft and R. E. Howard, Smith created fantastic worlds that have the least connection with the recognizable, "our" one. The most memorable among them are: Hyperborea, a mythical island near the North Pole, in ancient prehistory, before the onset of the ice age; Poseidonis, the last island of the former Atlantis, remaining after this continent sank into the ocean; Zotik, "the last continent on Earth", after all the others have sunk, millions of years in the future; and Zikarf, a fictional planet in deep space. To this should be added stories set in space (often on Mars), in the present day of America or England in the first half of the 20th century, and a series of stories set in the early Middle Ages, in the fictional French province of Avroanj.
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