Black Amazon of Mars
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071JVP9YS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great classic pulp space opera!" according to Colin A. Brodd. I picked this up because Gary Gygax recommends Leigh Brackett in his Appendx N to the 1st edition AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide Unfortunately, it is not the beginning of her Mars series, as I discovered, but nearer the end. Even without knowing the protagonist's backstory, however, it's a great pulp space opera story in what some authors call Old Mars - the Mars of the pulps, full of ancient cities consumed by endless deserts, canals bearing life-giving water, frozen cities under the polar ice caps, etc. I really liked this one - I'm g. "Swords-and-planet" fiction from one of the greatest of its writers! Normally, I like to start a series at the beginning. But I chose to read this second novella of Brackett's Eric John Stark series, as my long-awaited first introduction to her work, because Amazon offered me the chance to read it for free on my Kindle app. (And yes, I'll definitely be buying a paper copy!)Genre giant Brackett stands in the Romantic tradition, and represents SF's "soft" school; she's known for her "swords-and-planet" tales of adventure and derring-do on mostly low-tech worlds, and her style was shaped in the hey-day o. Andrew said Decent Pulp Era but not up to the Standard of the Greats. I read this as a sort of follow up to 'Sea Kings of Mars' by the same author. It's another pulp story from 1951 with the same basic outline hero fights and defeats the evil ones, gets the girl in the end.Although I did not find this as good as Sea Kings of Mars I did notice one interesting description of how a magic sword effected the ice dwelling creatures."The strange force in the blazing sword made an invisible barrier across the mouth of the pass, protected Ban Cruach himself. A barrier of short waves, he thought, of the type use
If Stark can dodge the black warrior and his army of bandits, maybe - just maybe - the people of Kushat won't kill him. In the icy north lands of Mars, Stark is carrying his wounded friend home to die. FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of this sci-fi classic.. He is to return a stolen gem to the ancient walled city of Kushat. With his dying words, Camar lays a perilous duty on the unwilling Stark