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Bezig met laden... Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smithdoor C. L. Moore
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Another Gateway acquistion. I owned a copy of Shambleau many years ago, but culled it before I moved to Cambridge, not appreciating the brilliant writing. Both books are Moore’s Northwest Smith stories, but Shambleau has less stories than the new collection. Pure pulp at it’s best. Stylistically very reminiscent of Clark Ashton Smith or H P Lovecraft if either had written science fiction stories. Don’t expect much enlightened attitudes - females (although strong characters in their own right) are either vamps or victims (often both), and other races are either degenerate or at best sidekicks. Great background material for a pulp planetary campaign - from the jungles of Venus to the deserts of Mars, the Solar System has been home to many humanoid races over the millenia. Recommended. The stories follow a clear formula: Northwest Smith encounters a damsel in distress, who is Other Than She Seems, and encounters some menacingly powerful otherworldly entity which he manages to resist through sheer force of will, losing said damsel (who is often the entity itself) in the process. Fine enough, but it starts to wear after the first three or four stories. From C. J. Cherryh's review: "This is an important book. Read it. Make sure your kids and grandkids read it. It's timeless, and it's that good." Those days, long ago, when it was still possible to dream about what might be on Mars, and about alien life, were heady stuff, and I'm sometimes sorry that the world seems somehow smaller nowadays. It doesn't have to be, you know. Dream a little.
Sex, itself a "nameless" subject in the popular literature of the relatively straitlaced 1930s, was a fairly common subtext of those encounters with the mysterious that were related in the typical weird tale, and a suggestion of the erotic must have been a selling point in colourful popular magazines. But the sexual aspect of Moore's Northwest Smith stories is hardly a subtext, the imagery is too potent, too central, too omnipresent for that. These are stories in which sex is death, beauty is a commodity independent of the person, and women are a danger and must be killed. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Bevat
75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionallycomplex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler NorthwestSmith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From thecrumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure halls of oldMars, Northwest Smith blazes a trail through the underbelly of the solar systemin 13 action-packed stories you won't soon forget. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The stories tend to repeat themes, and reading them with breaks in between is adviceable - but stringing it out over a decade as I did is overdoing it badly.