suppose you were introducing a teenage boy relative to classic adventure/sci-fi/fantasy/horror pulp, what authors would you recommend apart from these four of course
>>24852265Fritz LeiberL Sprague DeCampERBJack Vance
>>24852265While I think Howard is generally the best of them (Smith has beautiful prose at times but sometimes the stories fall flat) I would recommend Harold Lamb's Cossack stories as a bit of a wildcard. He inspired Howard and is pure adventure without the "weird" bits. I would also recommend some of the Dunsany short story collections to gauge if he's into that kind of thing.
>>24852265You sure you aren't just being autistic and imposing your special interest on them?
>>24852265Flashman if he's based, but not if he's a blossoming incel.
>>24852265don quixote is all of what he needs
War of the Worlds
Entertainments purely for escapism is fun, but to help uplift a soul to want to treat the world as THEIR adventure story when they feel ready tackle it.I like Jack Vance, Ursula K. Le Guin, Iain M. Banks. Edward Abbey, William Morris, JRR Tolkien. Joseph Campbell, Robert Moore, Mircea Eliade and Jung.
>>24852655This. Give him a real novel
>>24852265Gu Zhen Ren
