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A bit of a mixed bag, not in quality (which remains uniformly very, very high), but in terms of content -- there are some of Brackett's planetary romances set on Mars, Venus or Mercury (including probably my favorite story in the book, The Last Days of Shandakor), but most of the book is more conventional 1950s SF magazine stories like The Tweeners or Last Call from Sector 9G; and there's one story (The Citadel of Lost Ages) with a man from our Earth flung thousands or millions of years into the
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I don't know why I picked up this novella. The last Brackett book I read I did not love (an opinion one generous Goodreads reader recently pointed out was incorrect). Maybe I saw an old pulp illustration of pterosaur-like critters attacking half-naked Mercury colonists and hunted the book down. I'm not sure. But I read it.
It wasn't bad. Some interesting ideas sprinkled over the plot's dance between old, potboiler pulp and modern sci-fi. A lost prospector on Mercury comes upon two groups of huma ...more
It wasn't bad. Some interesting ideas sprinkled over the plot's dance between old, potboiler pulp and modern sci-fi. A lost prospector on Mercury comes upon two groups of huma ...more
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