The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[nana77]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Maybe only the Silmarillion, which was completed and he had submitted before his death.

I'm not convinced about all the edited works based on his notes that Christopher has released.

The "Prelude to Dune trilogy" and several others are written by Frank Herbert's son Brian, within Anderson (I recall having bought it just by looking at its thickness, then realized it was a slighty different thing); iirc it was made from some notes found several years after the Frank's departure.
Not to mention several works by Howard, also:

The Conan stories were increasingly edited by de Camp and the series was extended by pastiches until they replaced the original stories. In response, a puristic movement grew up demanding Howard's original, un-edited stories. The first boom ended in the mid-1980s. In the late 1990s and early 21st century, the "Second Howard Boom" occurred

*I didn't knew he made also "historical stories": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert...orical_stories

[nana77]

Did not understood why on almost all the translations from the serie I'm reading (Libra Editrice, most published around the '70s), mostly translated by Roberta Rambelli (which is great), she choosed the word "magazzeno" instead the usual "magazzino" (as for warehouse).
Now got it but the site that explains it already says it's unusual, as it's not a synonymous, but a regional (almost settentrional) variation, barely used in writtings.
It says the latin medieval word was yet magazenum, but changed within a french and then english interpositions.
Fun, btw, that she wrote several novels, within a male's pen name, which was the use on that period (on SF's genre).

Rocky Docson, Hunk Hanover, Joe C. Karpati, Jgor Latychev, R. R., John Rainbell, A. Robert