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''Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants: Essays on Literature, Film, and History'' is a 1996 essay collection by L. Sprague de Camp, published in hardcover by Borgo Press as no. 26 in the series ''I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of Literature''.〔 (collection entry)〕 The title essay "Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants" (retitled in this collection) was originally published in the magazine ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', in the issue for mid-December 1987.〔 (essay entry)〕 The book consists of thirteen pieces on various subjects, including writers H. P. Lovecraft (two essays), Robert E. Howard (also two essays), and Edgar Rice Burroughs, actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., silent movies, pseudohistory, pseudobibliographica, barbarians real and fictional, the Scopes Trial, the ancient tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse, and the author himself. ==Contents== *"Silent Specters, Spiders, and Sauropods" (from ''Starlog'', iss. 109, Aug. 1986) *"The Con Man from Baghdad" (originally titled "Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants) (from ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', mid-Dec. 1987) *"Three Thirds of a Hero" (poem, from ''Scribblings'' (1972) *"Lovecraft: Failed Aristocrat" (from ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', Jan. 1975) *"Conan, Illusion, and Reality" (from ''Ares'', no. 2, May 1980) *"Thoats, Tharks, and Thews" (from ''Starlog'', v. 10, iss. 117, Apr. 1987) *"Pseudohistory" (from ''Amra'', v. 2, no. 70, Sep. 1981) *"Books That Never Were" (from ''Scribblings'' (1972) and ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', Dec. 1972) *"The Man who Invented R. and D." *"Brachiating in the Family Tree" (from ''The Humanist'', v. 49, iss. 2, Mar./Apr. 1989) *"Lovecraft and the Aryans" (from ''Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages'' (1975) *"Howard and the Celts " (from ''Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages'' (1975) *"The Heroic Barbarian" (from ''Blond Barbarians and Noble Savages'' (1975) *"Notes" *"Index" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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