Northwest of Earth (Complete Northwest Smith)
75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure...
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75th Anniversary Edition! Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure halls of old Mars, Northwest Smith blazes a trail through the underbelly of the solar system in 13 action-packed stories you won't soon forget.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781601250810 (1601250819)
Publish date: April 8th 2008
Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC.
Pages no: 220
Edition language: English
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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