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Look, if you can get past the purple prose (and there's a lot of it, honestly just look at how often things are described as violet in Jirel Meets Magic) then this is worth your time. The comparison to Robert E Howard isn't quite apt. Yes, it's pulp about a medieval woman warrior but she almost never draws her sword. If the stories had come along two decades later we'd think of them as psychedelic, as she's always drawing on an internal power to overcome obstacles that a ...more
Look, if you can get past the purple prose (and there's a lot of it, honestly just look at how often things are described as violet in Jirel Meets Magic) then this is worth your time. The comparison to Robert E Howard isn't quite apt. Yes, it's pulp about a medieval woman warrior but she almost never draws her sword. If the stories had come along two decades later we'd think of them as psychedelic, as she's always drawing on an internal power to overcome obstacles that a ...more
Block God's Kiss and Hellsgarde are pretty interesting stories. The other three are just really bad. There's not much worth calling plot in any of the stories, if there's anything at all; and Jirel doesn't do anything at all except to switch her emotional state between defiant and angry. Whatever made Moore famous, these stories certain weren't it.
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In this anthology of short stories (written in the thirties of the last century and published in Weird Tales), Catherine Lucille Moore poses as a woman protagonist, which has never happened before that time in fantasy.
Jirel thus becomes the archetype of the female heroine, used later by many other authors of sword and sorcery. Our warrior has nothing to envy to a man as a force, indeed can boast a much greater courage than all the other warriors that accom ...more
In this anthology of short stories (written in the thirties of the last century and published in Weird Tales), Catherine Lucille Moore poses as a woman protagonist, which has never happened before that time in fantasy.
Jirel thus becomes the archetype of the female heroine, used later by many other authors of sword and sorcery. Our warrior has nothing to envy to a man as a force, indeed can boast a much greater courage than all the other warriors that accom ...more
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A great collection of Sword and Sorcery short stories. C.L. Moore is a great author, and does not disappoint here.
Incredible sword and sorcery from an early Master whose prose rivals Howard’s and whose heroine is one of the most powerful and engaging characters in all of fantasy. Moore wrote the hell out of her pulp adventures, each story crackles with life and vitality.
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