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First published in Weird Tales in 1933 Catherine Lucille Moore exploded onto the pulp scene to become one of the most important science fiction and fantasy authors of all time In her first story 'Shambleu' Moore revealed a vast imagination beautifully descriptive prose and a throbbing sensuality rarely matched by her male counterparts It also marked the first ap 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 like Han Solo nearly getting seducedkilled by Lovecraftian beasties often disguised as women and just barely surviving The writing is much better than I expected like Michael Moorcock at his pulpy best The stories are fairly creepy and held my interest The one gripe I had was that many of them are fairly similar in plot and structureIn conclusion creepy yes action packed no
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E stepped forward and opened the door for generations of female science fiction and fantasy authors Earning praise from contemporaries like HP Lovecraft and Fritz Leiber as well as modern authors from Greg Bear to Michael Moorcock CL Moore remains a giant in the genre and the stories in this compilation comprise an essential addition to any science fiction libra The writing style here is very intriguing but it became tiring Everything is so intricate that it becomes florid Also the first 3 stories had the same plot I did not read the rest I may come back to it in the future
Summary ¶ PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB ´ C.L. Moore
Pearance of Northwest Smith the uick drawing outlaw of the spaceways who would become a science fiction archetype Here for the first time ever all thirteen of Northwest Smith's adventures have been compiled into one rowdy thrill ride as sure to inspire readers today as it was seventy years agoIn a time when women were marginalized in genre fiction Catherine Moor This is a collection of short stories and it is because of that I actually finished If it had been a novel I would have given up because I would have known it would never improve The style was just too slow for me yes things happened but it was very slow 379 pages could have been 250 if not 200 I did not like most of the plots they did nothing for me Once you had read a couple you had an idea what was going to happenReally regret struggling on with it Not for me Engendering Song uick drawing outlaw of the spaceways who would become a science fiction archetype Here for the first time ever all thirteen of Northwest Smith's adventures have been compiled into one rowdy thrill ride as sure to inspire readers today as it was seventy years agoIn a time when women were marginalized in genre fiction Catherine Moor This is a collection of short stories and it is because of that I actually finished If it had been a novel I would have given Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman Summary & Study Guide up because I would have known it would never improve The style was just too slow for me yes things happened but it was very slow 379 pages could have been 250 if not 200 I did not like most of the plots they did nothing for me Once you had read a couple you had an idea what was going to happenReally regret struggling on with it Not for me
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 like Han Solo nearly getting seducedkilled by Lovecraftian beasties often disguised as women and just barely surviving The writing is much better than I expected like Mic
When I was around 14 I was given a library card to the San Marino library system because the local branch of the Pasadena library system I was living in Pasadena California at the time just didn't have enough books to keep me happy I was overjoyed to discover a huge selection of science fiction in the nearest San Marine library b
Catherine Lucille Moore or CL Moore was a contemporary of HP Lovecraft and Fritz Leiber praised by Michael Moorcock and G
adventure fiction from the fantastic pulpsgolden age sf short stories featuring northwest smith science fantasy and jirel of joiry fantasy no real science in nw populated solar system with venusians martians jungles desert planets moons plots basically westerns with spaceships and rayguns on the other no overarching world for jirel some continuing characters uniue worlds much sword and sorcery these are collected 1954 fr
These stories are somewhat formulaicShambleau The introductory paragraph is a spoiler view spoilerVelikovsky would have approved of this story hide spoiler
This is a collection of short stories and it is because of that I actually finished If it had been a novel I would have given up because I would have known it would never improve The style was just too slow for me yes things happened but it was very slow 379 pages could have been 250 if not 200 I did not like most of the plots they did not
The stories follow a clear formula Northwest Smith encounters a damsel in distress who is Other Than She Seems and encounters some menacingly
The writing style here is very intriguing but it became tiring Everything is so intricate that it becomes florid Also the first 3 stories had the same plot I did not read the rest I may come back to it in the future
Northwest of Earth is an interesting study in 1930s pulp science fiction despite the fact that I did not particularly like
It's hard to believe that these stories were written in the 1930's except for the last one Now the concept of aliens on Venus Mars and a few other places is uite laughable today but taken for when they were written and as an alternate reality they really were uite fascinating Her world building was good We knew that NW was a smuggler and criminal from many key points but she never describes the man or his partner Venusian Yarol w