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Author:	Leigh Brackett
Title:	The Sword Of Rhiannon
Publisher:	Ace Books
Country:	USA
Date:	1953
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Cat#:	D-36
Total Editions:	4
Rating:	10.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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An Ace Double, paired with Conan The Conqueror by Robert E. Howard.
Cover painting by Robert Schulz.
132 pages (320 pages total). 35-cent cover price.

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ppint. 25th Sep 2024		Rated 10/10 this 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. (this review is from another edition of this book) 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. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 31st Jul 2020		grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books mmpb third printing including the half ace double format first edition (1953) cover art unsigned, uncredited; as-yet unattributed, surreally inappropriate figure in unexplained setting cover price $1.25 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising indicia gives only 1953 copyright date; publication taken date from locus #180, 27/10/1975 first mmpb in the taller p/b format, approximately equivalent to the standard uk p/b format, text evidently re-set in higher point size, from the changed pagination grosset & dunlap charter communications ace books near-identical undated fourth mmpb printing (c. 1980) cover art unsigned/indecipherably signed, uncredited, retained from third printing cat# 79142 isbn 0-441-79142-5 cover price $1.95 144pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising indicia gives only the copyright © 1953 date (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 13th Sep 2019		Rated 10/10 superb, technically "sub-burroughsian", "planet stories"-style science fiction adventure, and a gem of its kind, with the accent almost as heavily upon the powerfully exotic setting, as upon the adventure that pits a low-life chancer of a man, a would-be tomb-robber, against a veritable god - and against the saurian race that rules their thalassocracy(!) on mars of yore - and dominates all other races, including lowly humanity - upon the planet through their fawning worship and apparent obedience of him, and his kin, and studying his technological teachings, and wielding the powers they gain thereby without any shred of conscience, nor achilles heel of mercy - thousands of years before our would-be tomb-robber was born. . . - against such inhuman and uncaring, overbearing and unfeelingly cruel ovetlords, what chance does one, very far from heroic - let alone perfect - and utterly out of his depth chancer-on-the-run have ? (this review is from another edition of this book) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 13th Sep 2019		ace books mmpb second printing, first solo p/b edition; previously half an "ace double" with "conan the conqueror" robert e. howard (12/1953), q.v. cover art by john schoenherr (unsigned, credited) cover price 40¢ 128pp. including titles, indicia etc, end pp. advertising (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 21st May 2018		"serialized" in thrilling wonder stories vol. xxxiv no.2 (6/1949), q.v, as "sea-kings of mars" this may have been an edited text: yr hmbl srppnt. knoweth not of any report of a detailed comparison or even just word-count figures. the magazine version. includes unattributed b+w illustrations, and the cover art may have been "inspired" by the story. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Leigh Brackett - The Sword Of Rhiannon - Ace - Paperback - USA (1967)

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Leigh Brackett - The Sword Of Rhiannon - Ace - Paperback - USA (1975)

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Leigh Brackett - The Sword Of Rhiannon - T. V. Boardman - Hardcover - UK (1955)