A long time to Nowhere

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Back in the mid-1970s, Philip Jose Farmer wrote two sword-and-sorcery novels about the denizens of Opar, a lost city civilization created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1913 in the second Tarzan novel, The Return of Tarzan.

The two novels sold decently well, but not well enough for DAW Books to publish the third novel in the series, focused on the cousin of Hadon, the protagonist of the first two novels.

Well, Subterranean Press is finally publishing The Song of Kwasin, as part of Gods of Opar, an omnibus with the first two. It's a shame that they didn't follow Farmer's observation that the third book was so distant from the first two that its best title would be Nowhere Near Opar.

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I read Hadon of Ancient Opar several years ago, and was amused that Farmer also tied in Rider Haggard's mythos (the She quartet, at least; but I seem to remember something about an axe used by Umslopogas in Alan Quatermain in Hadon as well) with ERB's.

As I'd recently read Farmer's A Feast Unknown, I was relieved that it didn't need to be titled "Hard-On of Ancient Opar."