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	Black Gate: The Fantasy Cycles of Clark Ashton Smith: Tales of Zothique
		Zothique represents the period of entropy; the cyclic nature of history (as embodied by Poseidonis and Hyberborea, powerful civilizations that crumbled) cannot last forever and must eventually deplete all of its energy.
		Zothique reverses the ‘Pangaea’ geological theory that all of Earth’s continents were once grouped together into a primeval ‘super-continent.’ Zothique is a single continent at the close of Earth’s history, but far from a conglomeration of all lands, it is the only piece of land that remains.
		But rationality is a weak force in Zothique, and the sorcerer Namirrah ignores the warnings of Thasaidon as he plots against the king who slighted him as a youth and set him on the road of necromancy.
	www.blackgate.com /articles/zothique.htm (5449 words)

	The SF Site: The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique
		Short works of dark fantasy, written in an evocative prose-poem form, with situations full of fl humour and irony, depicting worlds where heroes, kings and/or sorcerers vainly try to stave off their impending doom are nothing new.
		Smith's tales of Zothique, Earth's future when the continents have reassembled and a dying desert land survives only on the whim of its dying sun, are considered among his best.
		In this regard, the stories are excellent in capturing the mood of Smith's Zothique, the richness of his prose, but without simply aping his writing style or reworking his plots.
	www.sfsite.com /11b/last69.htm (982 words)

	Tales of Zothique, Introduction by Will Murray
		The Zothique cycle, as CAS once styled it, comprises the largest body of unified Smith tales, as well as the realm he returned to most often through the many fitful phases of his fiction career.
		Zothique, vaguely suggested by Theosophic theories about past and future continents, is the last inhabited continent of earth.
		Zothique as I have conceived it belongs to the future rather than the past, and lies at the other end of the time-cycle from Hyperborea, Mu, etc. The peoples of Zothique, one might say, have rounded the circle and have returned to the conditions of what we of the present era might regard as antiquity.
	www.eldritchdark.com /misc/zothique_intro.html (2966 words)

	Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) Audio Book
		Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) is now available as an audio book.
		Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) was authored by Clark Ashton Smith and is narrated by Reg Green.
		Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
	www.audio-book.ws /books/zothique-lost-continent-earth.php (527 words)

	Zothique - Postscript by Will Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sidaiva, court-dancer of Urnmaus, famed throughout Zothique for the grace of her dancing and the beauty of her feet, incurs the jealousy of Princess Lunalia, daughter of King Phantur of Zylac.
		As it now stands, given the placement of "The Two Necromancies" after what is the final surviving Zothique tale, "Morthylla," as well as the fact that as far as is known the 1956 revision of The Dead WillCudcold You represents the last time Smith took pen to a tale of Zothique, it concludes this collection.
		Perhaps the greatest loss to the Zothique cycle is "The Scarlet Succubus," which Smith described in a 1953 letter to L. Sprague de Camp as "a projected short novel of Zothique, which I'm carrying in my head.
	www.eldritchdark.com /misc/zothique_postscript.html (1408 words)

	DarkEcho/HorrorOnline: Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Exotic, sometimes erotic, the florid prose of Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique story-cycle could be summed up as Baudelaire meets Lovecraft; doom and decadence meets mythological cosmology.
		Clark (1893-1961)described Zothique as "...the last inhabited continent of earth.
		ZOTHIQUE: THE LAST CONTINENT, like any true tribute, can be enjoyed even by those to whom the volume serves as an introduction to the venerated.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/horroronline/rev1199.html (824 words)

	Abebooks Résultats de la recherche - Zothique
		ZOTHIQUE - Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series: Xeethra; Necromancy in Naat; The Empire of the Necromancers; The Master of the Crabs; The Death of Ilalotha; The Weaver in the Vault; The Witchcraft of Ulua; The Charnel God; The Dark Eidolon; Morthylla
		ZOTHIQUE: Xeethra; Necromancy in Naat; The Empire of the Necromancers; The Master of the Crabs; The Death of Ilalotha; The Weaver in the Vault; The Witchcraft of Ulua; The Charnel God; The Dark Eidolon; Morthylla; The Black Abbot of Puthuum (ISBN:0345019385)
		Contents: ZOTHIQUE: "The Empire of the Necromancers" "The Isle of the Torturers" "Necromancy in Naat" and "Xeethra"; AVEROIGNE: "The Holiness of Azedarac" and "The Beast of Averoigne"; OTHERS: "The Letter from Mohaun Los" "The Light from Beyond "The Hunters from Beyond" and "The Treader of the Dust".
	www.abebooks.fr /search/sortby/3/kn/Zothique (2670 words)

	Terms Used in the Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Clark Ashton Smith
		unnamed necromancer of Zothique -- ``born in that realm where the dawn and the sunset come together, and the moon is equal in brightness to the sun'' -- reanimated the gazolba on Euvoran's crown.
		kingdom by the orient sea in Zothique -- ``fierce southern tribesmen'' in the desert south of Calyz -- easternmost realm of Zothique -- high western boundary marked by a stone lion -- ``the fl girls of the north'' -- desert to the south -- its capital is Shathair.
		anchorite of Zothique -- famed for piety, prophetic wisdom, ``and knowledge of the dark art of sorcery'' -- built a house of bones ``on the rim of the northern desert of Tasuun''.
	www-ns.rutgers.edu /~cje/cas.html (12152 words)

	Wizard with Words: An Appreciation of Clark Ashton Smith
		The Zothique stories are always perverse and unsettling in this or similar ways, but they are also the most beautiful and powerful of Smith’s fantasy stories, and the ones in which he strives most fully and consciously for poetic effect.
		The tales of Atlantis could be seen as a middle ground between those of Zothique and Hyperborea, having something of the funereal seriousness of the former without their poetic simplicity and beauty, and something of the sesquipedalian orotundity of the latter without their facetiousness.
		However, Zothique is a fantasy, not a science fiction, universe: the level of technology is low and there is abundant use of magic.
	web.onetel.com /~amygdala/texts/wizard.html (5885 words)

	Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) -- Audio book download (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		All four stories take place on Zothique, the last remaining continent of earth in the very distant future.
		Many were necromancers and magicians of Zothique, and the infamy and marvel of their doings were legends everywhere in the latter days.
		The result is a dark world of older mystery where luxurious ventures across dim landscapes abound, pitting their strength and wisdom against powerful wizards and alien gods under a dying sun.
	www.all-audio-books.com /science-fiction-fantasy/classics/zothique-the-last.shtml (322 words)

	Clark Ashton Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Clark Ashton Smith isn't for everyone, but his romantic and otherworldly poems, full of sensual, exotic words and crammed with bizarre images, are, in my opinion, among the most underrated poems of the 20th century.
		Very memorable anthology of short horror/fantasy stories set in the mythical continent of Zothique.
		For an anthology "based" on the style and stories of CAS, I felt most of the stories in this book were as fascinating and strange as Smith's.
	www.freeglossary.com /Clark_Ashton_Smith (636 words)

	Price Comparison for Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) by Clark Ashton Smith - Audiobook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Smith's conception of Zothique is that of Earth's last continent in the very distant.
		Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) Sale Price: $21 Retail: $60 (65% off!) Explore the bizarre, breathtaking, and terrifying worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, high master of.
		Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) - breathtaking, and terrifying worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, high master of eerie fantasy and cosmic horror.
	audiobooks.fmpasap.com /audiobooks/zothique-the-last-continent-of-earth-unabridged.9627.html (422 words)

	Audiobook Zothique, The Last Continent of Earth (Unabridged) by Clark Ashton Smith
		All four stories take place on Zothique, the last remaining continent of earth in the very distant future.
		Many were necromancers and magicians of Zothique, and the infamy and marvel of their doings were legends everywhere in the latter days.
		The result is a dark world of older mystery where luxurious ventures across dim landscapes abound, pitting their strength and wisdom against powerful wizards and alien gods under a dying sun.
	www.literaturepost.com /det/audiobook/Zothique-The-Last-Continent-of-Earth-Unabridged.html (268 words)

	Alan Moore's The Courtyard Review - Silver Bullet Comics
		By employing the Anomaly Theory to winnow out the 'most troublesome' details in each case - obscure fragments which don't fit the profiles and which are consequently overlooked - and find new connections therein, one detective thinks he has a lead, and heads undercover to a putrid hole of an apartment.
		From there he wanders down to hang out in Club Zothique, "an amphetaminefield of concussive music and light, full of underage heat," and waits for something to happen, for the fragments to fall into place.
		They do, but things take an unexpected turn when he receives a report from a previous 1925 investigation into child smuggling centred on the old church which now hosts Club Zothique, and a photograph of J. Edgar Hoover from a F.B.I. operation a couple of years later, involving interbreeding in Massachusetts.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/104565211541595.htm (399 words)

	Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Smith Clark Ashton
		The Zothique tales are particularly good; displaying a morbid fascination with decadence and decay not to be found in the pastoral settings and simplistic Good Vs. Evil themes of Tolkien-influenced fantasists.
		This collection is a good intro to CAS's work, including 10 tales of Zothique and 4 of Hyperborea, as well as some of his outstanding work in the SF and horror fields.
		One of the best tales of Zothique, "The Weaver in the Vault," is not to be found, and there are other notable omissions, such as "A Night in Malneant," "The Double Shadow," and "The Plutonian Drug," which are all passed over in lieu of some questionable choices in the Lost Worlds section.
	www.geometry.net /authors_bk/smith_clark_ashton.html (3048 words)

	New Tales of Zothique
		Zothique was the last continent of our world under a dying sun and, as such, had unlimited potential for magic and evil and revenge and greed and horror and on and on.
		It may be a dying world but it's an immensely fertile one for the imagination and the authors Pelan has selected have all succeeded in honoring the source and doing honor to the source with compelling stories that fit the mood and the setting perfectly.
		THE LAST CONTINENT: New Tales of Zothique will definitely impress Clark Ashton Smith's fans and will most probably whet the appetites of new readers and send them in search of the masters works.
	www.baryon-online.com /baryon75/new-zoth.html (308 words)

	C.A. Smith's ZOTHIQUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Zothique cycle, as Clark Ashton Smith once styled it, comprises his largest body of unified tales, and the
		--Clark Ashton : Smith : : The Zothique cycle, as Clark Ashton Smith once styled it, comprises his largest body of unified tales, and the : realm to which he returned most often through the many fitful phases of his fiction career.
		Zothique is a unique : opportunity to re-discover an author who influenced generations of readers and authors -- from H.P. Lovecraft : and Ray Bradbury to Jack Vance and Harlan Ellison.
	www.massmedia.com /~mikeb/jvm/bbs/msgs/131.html (341 words)

	BBC - collective - Zothique
		If you are a Collective member and have not written your introduction your space will appear like this too.
		Zothique 's reviews and conversations are linked to from this page.
		Zothique 's latest weblog entry will appear here.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A4367045 (328 words)

	Classics of Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gamers who are admirers of Smith's work are better off creating their own scenarios around his ideas.
		Zothique, his end-of-time setting for some of his best stories, is probably too bleak for an ongoing campaign, though very effective for self-contained scenarios inserted into a pre-existing game (e.g., in Pelgrane Press's The Dying Earth RPG).
		But Averoigne is perfect for fans of both DandD and Call of Cthulhu: It combines the medieval sensibilities and possibilities for heroic adventures of the one with the eerie horror, lurking menace, and overwhelming terror of the other.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=books/main/classicsaveroigne (2960 words)

	Re: C.A. Smith's ZOTHIQUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Reply to: C.A. Smith's ZOTHIQUE posted by Mike Berro on September 25, 1996 at 14:53:57:
		C.A.S's Zothique is a Dying Earth tale, with intersting stories and characters.
		The best modern collection of Clark Ashton Smith is RENDEVOUZ IN AVEROIGNE, published by Arkham house a few years ago, and should still be available.
	www.massmedia.com /~mikeb/jvm/bbs/msgs/132.html (247 words)

	Aftermath :: View topic - App. 60 priest/ 60 mage botox/zothique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If you are interested in trying me on for size, give me a tell, zothique or botox I play both.
		Toon is not an alliance exclusive term, remember just because you haven't heard a horde say it, doesn't mean they don't.
		Don't remember Botox, but I've seen and iirc partied with Zothique and all was well.
	forums.aftermath-guild.com /viewtopic.php?t=2448&sid=ddd9690372d00dbfbdee10fd533fd8f6 (421 words)

	Zothique D20 System game guide by George Hager
		It is intended as an aid to those who wish to create their own game world based on the stories in Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique cycle.
		This guide is not a stand-alone game, and it is not intended as a license for developing commercial products based on the Zothique cycle.
		Should an official Zothique D20 System game product sanctioned by the owners of the Zothique copyrights become available for general purchase, and if the contents of that product should match or exceed the utility of this document, the author will issue no further editions of this guide.
	www.eldritchdark.com /misc/zothique-d20.html (127 words)

	The Alchemist's Arcanabulum
		I wanted a paperback containing all the Zothique stories and nothing else, and that's what Lin Carter edited for Ballantine in 1970.
		And Borderlands was selling it for the perfectly reasonable price of $6, not silly collectable amounts like all the other stores listing that copy on the web.
		Lin Carter mentioned that Smith had probably met Ambrose Bierce (who wrote "The Children of Hastur" which inspired Robert Chambers and thereby H.P. Lovecraft), and the maps of Zothique were taken from ones done by L. Sprague de Camp and corrected for him by Smith.
	www.dm.net /~kevin-a-murphy/2003_08_01_archive.html (4471 words)

	Legend of Birds And Bees - Very interested in this Flock of Seagulls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I need only the blood now on zothique then I will be working for the key on botox, sadly i have five manned lbrs with urock 4 times without the quest
		I Herbalist/Alchemist with the major mana recipe and and tailor with the mooncloth leggings recipe.
		Give me a tell or a mail if you need another for an instance and we can see if we jive.
	www.legendofbirds.com /showthread.php?t=203 (368 words)

	emperor of dreams - book review for zone-sf.com
		Smith's other major setting, and perhaps his greatest, is Zothique, the last continent in the far future when the Earth is old and the sun is dying.
		Via a somewhat complicated plot, Yadar falls victim to the necromancers but by the end of the story the necromancers are all dead, and their mindless undead servants continue to perform their duties.
		Vance does somewhat better with the second and subsequent volumes of the series, where he takes the humorous tone of the Hyperborean tales and soars away with it somewhere else entirely.
	www.zone-sf.com /empdreams.html (1240 words)

	The Last Continent - New Tales of Zothique by 0966566246 - Direct Textbook Price Comparison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		You will feel the weak red sun as it dies, taste the dust of deserts on your lips, and tremble in the wake of strange magics.
		In `Worm', Zothique finally dies, leaving only a long-dead and decomposing madman to witness the sun's last throes.
		The Last Continent is an original reading experience, utilizing not only Smith's vision of Zothique but his stylistic, flowing prose.
	www.directtextbook.com /reviews/0966566246 (2134 words)

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		Scriptorium offers hundreds of mostly decorative and calligraphic fonts, based on historical and folk sources.
		Most popular: Allegheny, Platthand, Windlass, Rossetti, Folkard, Zothique, Ardenwood
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	www.fonts-online.com /default1.htm (925 words)

	Dani Zweig's Unnumbered Reviews #3: Clark Ashton Smith
		"Zothique" collects the stories set in Zothique -- the world's last dying continent in an unimaginably distant future, once more a land of wizards and demons.
		The fantasy isn't very fantastic, the horror isn't very horrific, the heroes aren't very heroic, bad things happen to people we don't particularly care about anyway.
		(The Zothique stories are weakest in this respect, featuring a faceless procession of necromancers who keep finding ugly ways for themselves or those around them to die.) But the writing makes the stories a pleasure to read.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/dani/UR_003.htm (909 words)

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