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Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

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Born: January 13, 1893

Died: August 14, 1961 (aged 68)

Bio: Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne.

Known for:

Lost Worlds (1944)
The Dark Eidolon
The Abominations of Yondo (1960)
The Return of the Sorcerer
The Double Shadow

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