Product Description ROBERT E. HOWARD CHANGED MY LIFE is a brand-new way of understanding how the Texas author's legacy continues today. 33 contributors long familiar with the man and his creations share how he impacted their lives and continues to impact modern entertainment. This is an intimate look at the changes wrought personally and professionally by the Father of Sword-and-Sorcery and a Founder of American Fantasy.ROBERT E. HOWARD CHANGED MY LIFE is homage not only in memoir but also in financial support for Project Pride, the agency that sustains the Howard Home and Museum in Cross Plains, Texas. A portion of each sale of the hardcover and electronic book will be donated by RBF to Project Pride each year at the annual Howard Days.ROBERT E. HOWARD CHANGED MY LIFE is as bold, raw, and filled with vibrant life as the words, characters, and works of the man himself. Review "A fascinating testament to the power of the written word-and to Robert E. Howard's compelling, poetic, virile prose." Toni Weisskopf, publisher, Baen Books "Jackie Robinson's gravestone reads, 'A life is not important except in the impact that it has on other lives.' Over two dozen men and women tell how Robert E. Howard impacted their lives in this fascinating book from Rogue Blades Foundation. When you finish it, you will agree that Robert E. Howard lived an important life." Bob Byrne, REH Foundation Award winner"Robert E. Howard, over the past few decades, has begun to receive the serious attention he deserves as a writer. So a fair amount has been written about his fiction. But this fascinating book, at times fun, at times informative, and at times quite moving, is about his readers-about how some of them have been affected by Howard. A quite worthwhile perspective." Rich Horton, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy"There are moments in life that bring monumental change. Meeting your love. Falling into or out of religious belief. Business opportunities. Health. Sometimes we become aware of the changed path instantly, more often years later. It is rare that written yarns touch our soul and spine, but that is what Bob Howard's do. They help us find resolve, and purpose, and to make the best of the cards we are dealt. Here are some of the prominent Howardian voices sharing their moments with us. Welcome to the campfire." Fredrik Malmberg, President and CEO, Cabinet Entertainment/Conan Properties

Robert E. Howard Changed My Life: Personal Essays about an Extraordinary Legacy

Self-Help

Motivational

Rogue Blades Foundation

An exciting repository of the tales of an empire that pre-dates the solar system's recorded history. A spectacular homage of ten 'romantic tales of high adventure' written in the American pulp imagination style of breathless bravado. A return to an era when the exploration of time and the mystery of space travel held the attention of the reading world with heroes/heroines that faced dangerous unknowns with hopes and fists raised high! 
20,000 years ago, the first Emperor of Sol ascended the Iridium Throne of Earth. A sorcerer who learned to extend his life through elixirs and potent demonic bargains, he ruled a thousand years, until deposed by a conspiracy among his wives. His youngest wife, the most cunning, became the first Empress of Sol and began the Imperial practice of tracing lineage through the female. 
This anthology's "present" is 10,000 years after the Ruin of the Empire of Sol, an event immortalized by a cabal of poets who wove history with myth. Civil war erupted inside the Empire when warlords of another planet sought to seize the Iridium Throne of Earth. War rent the system, until finally a doomsday weapon was deployed. This weapon caused the Ruin; it shattered worlds and threw the citizens of the Empire into such a state of savagery that it has taken 10,000 years to make it to a current Dark Age. The worlds of the solar system have slowly emerged to reclaim only the most slender portion of the ancient splendor of the Empire. Through the combined efforts of sorcery and science, mankind and alienkind have returned to the stars in Aether ships, though even these are considered crude by the ancient Imperial standards. 
Above them all looms a mysterious THREAT on the horizon. Augurs see bad omens, demon familiars speak of a coming cataclysm; a few ships have gone missing along the fringes of the system, only to be spotted and boarded later . . . ghost ships with missing crews. One had a cryptic note scrawled in blood: "They're coming!"

Scott Oden Presents The Lost Empire of Sol: A Shared World Anthology of Sword & Planet Tales

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Oden, Scott

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Waltz, Jason M

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