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BookLeigh Brackett - The Sword Of Rhiannon - Ace Books - Paperback - USA (1953)
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| ppint. 25th Sep 2024 | Rated 10/10this is the edition first read by yr hmbl srppnt. sometime in the early-to-mid sixties, when my elder bother° borrowed it from church end public library, and the sub-teenage me glommed onto it, devoured it, and has never forgotten it since - despite having only had time to read it the once before he returned it - and couldn't remember the author, its title - nor even having read the book from my memory of the key word, ''rhiannon'', detailed description of the set-up, and the bones of the story! ° - the russian for ''brother'' is ''brat'' - and rightly so! a superb, technically "sub-burroughsian", "planet stories"-style exotic science fiction adventure story, a true gem of its kind, with the accent almost as heavily upon the powerfully exotic setting, as upon the adventure that pits matthew carse, a low-life chancer of a man, a would-be tomb-robber, against an actual, veritable god - and against the cruel, conscienceless saurian race that rules their thalassocracy on mars of yore - exercising their dominion over all other races - including lowly humanity - upon the planet through their fawning worship of this god, and their apparent obedience of him, and his kin, and studying his technological teachings, and wielding the great powers they gain thereby without any shred of compassion, no achilles heel of any inclination towards mercy - thousands of years before our would-be tomb-robber was born. . . - against such inhuman and uncaring, overbearing and unfeelingly callously cruel overlords, what chance does one, very far from heroic - let alone perfect - and utterly out of his depth chancer-on-the-run have ? - this gripped the young ppint.'s imagination, as it has enthralled so many readers in the decades since first it saw the light of day. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review? | |
| ppint. 31st Jul 2020 | t. v. boardman first printing, first uk edition, first h/cvr edition cover (d-j) art unsigned, uncredited; sfaik as-yet unattributed cover (d-j) price 9/6 208pp. including titles, indicia etc. sewn in signatures and bound with end-papers between cloth-covered boards with title, author, publisher name & logo blocked in silver on spine, logo bottom right front cover. | |
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