by C.L. Moore
Fantastic fiction, in more ways than one. Evocative descriptive text, pulp scifi excitement, and the occasional greek myth. Great!
The way I've heard it described, with Northwest Smith being a Han Solo prototype, I was expecting good pulpy action with rayguns and gross monsters. It's more like Han Solo nearly getting seduced/killed by Lovecraftian beasties (often disguised as women) and just barely surviving. The writing is m...
"Think Han Solo as created by a an extremely sexual H.P. Lovecraft" is what I could say, but it would really sell C.L. Moore short.Northwest Smith really is the original archetype for the outer space smuggler/outlaw hero that would later spawn characters like Han Solo (and Malcolm Reynolds) except t...
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