Conan Meets John Galt! By Roderick on December 14, 2007 1 Well, not quite. But Conan creator Robert E. Howard’s 1933 story “Talons in the Dark” (also titled “Black Talons”) does feature a character named John Galt. (It’s not a particularly good story, but there ya go.) Rand, Science Fiction
Oh! Oh! Oh! This just proves that Rand had plagiarized not only Garet Garret, but Robert E. Howard, too!