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From C.L. Moore, the legendary pioneer of classic sci-fi, comes the collected adventures of the iconic space outlaw, Northwest Smith.
First published in Weird Tales in the early 1930s, C.L. Moore’s Northwest Smith stories, especially SHAMBLEAU, were hailed as some of the most imaginative and vivid science fiction stories ever to come out of the golden age of sci-fi. At a time when women were heavily underrepresented in the genre, C.L. Moore was among the first to gain critical and popular acclaim, drawing comparisons to contemporaries like H.P. Lovecraft and Fritz Leiber.
Northwest Smith, now recognized by many as the archetypal space smuggler and gunslinger, is an adventurer in the classic sense of the word, and these thirteen stories chronicle the bizarre dangers, interstellar wonders, and titillating romances that captured the imagination of a generation.
- Sales Rank: #507189 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-20
- Released on: 2015-09-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
This book is a classic that all sci-fi fans should read.
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C. L. Moore garnered praise for her work in a time when women did not write science fiction. Her stories were powerful and poignant; her heroes and heroines were complex, well crafted individuals. She struck the perfect balance between adventure, science fiction, fantasy and mystery.
Northwest Smith is one of her more interesting heroes. He's an earthman who cannot return home and wanders the galaxy making the only living he can as a hired criminal. He's managed to become one of the best, and his employment continually sends him to the strangest most magical parts of the universe. Join in his adventures against the age old forces of the universe, which are often reminiscent of mythological tales.
This book is a classic that all sci-fi fans should read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Fine Stories -- But Ration Them Out
By Randy Stafford
"Shambleau", the opening story of this series, was Moore's first sale and made her reputation. With a prelude that established a back story of ancient alien civilizations on Venus and Mars and a second space age of Man, it established a romantic setting for Moore to drop her outlaw hero Smith into. Mix in prose probably about as sensual and erotic as could be published in Weird Tales at the time and some explicit ancient Earth mythology, and a popular series was born.
And it's still a good, fine story. Unfortunately, it also established a formula pretty closely followed for eight out of the other nine stories in this book. So as not to spoil the enjoyment of the other stories, I won't spell out that formula, but I will say that what awed readers of Weird Tales as they were parceled out mostly from 1933-1936 will probably cloy your literary palate the way too much of a fine dessert will. Do not read these stories all at once.
Two other warnings are in order. First, this collection was first published as the limited hardcover Scarlet Dream in 1981. Second, I have found out that it seems to omit two Northwest Smith stories. You will find the whole series in the cunningly titled Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith (Planet Stories Library).
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Good Ole Fashioned Space Opera
By Paul Camp
Northwest Smith is an Earthman with a scarred face and pale eyes who dresses in worn spaceman's leathers and who packs a blaster at his hip.* He is frequently accompanied by the rotund Venusian, Yarol. (C.L. Moore states that his name was an anagram of her favorite model of typewriter.) Both are outlaws, frequently hunted by the Space Patrol. And both have met their share of exotic and deadly aliens around the solar system.
_Northwest Smith_ (1981) is an assemblage of nine N.S. novelettes and one vignette by C.L. Moore. The full length adventures were published in _Weird Tales_ between 1933 and 1936. The vignette, "Song in a Minor Key," is from _Fantastic Universe_ in 1957. It is Smith's reflections about how he left his girl friend and columned house for a life of crime. It is the least of the stories in the book, but not a bad epilogue.
"Shambleau" was Moore's first published story and Smith's first adventure. Smith rescues a female alien from a bloodthirsty mob. The alien proves to be seductive, gorgonish, and vampish. Smith almost meets his match. The story created a sensation among readers of _Weird Tales_, with its rounded characters and sensuous scenes.
"Shambleau" set the pattern of a blend of space opera and myth. Moore did not blatently repeat plots-- she was too good a writer for that-- but she did reuse the formula in her later stories. "Black Thirst" recounts a dangerous assignation between Smith and an aristocratic Minga maid in a Venusian palace. "The Tree of Life" depicts how Smith escapes from the Patrol only to fall into the clutches of a siren-like monster. "Scarlet Dream" opens with a scarf that sells just a little bit _too_ easily at a Martian market. In "Dust of Gods," Smith and Yarol go on a quest in Martian caverns-- and find more than they bargained for. In "Lost Paradise," we learn that strange races and dark secrets may be found in the parapets of New York City. In "Julhi," Smith falls into the hands of a cyclopean, serpentine witch. In "The Cold Gray God," a lovely Venusian Woman with a Past hires Smith to "recover" an object from a Spaceman's Rest. But things quickly become more complicated. And in "Yvala," N.S. and Yarol cross paths with a Circe-like enchantress.
Many of the stories feature "magic portals"-- doorways or entrances into caverns, palaces, or other dimensions. Smith is often told that there is no escape back through such portals. He usually finds a way nonetheless. But at the close of the story, the portal often collapses, separating one world from another. This is usually fortunate, since it isolates various unpleasant monsters from our own world.
Many of the stories have dreamlike or hypnotic sequences that add to the power of the tales. Here is Smith's night seduction by the _shambleau_:
The green eyes met his. He felt a perceptible shock, and a shudder rippled down his paralysed spine, leaving an icy numbness in its wake. He felt the goose-flesh rising. But that numbness and cold horror he scarcely realized, for the green eyes were locked in his in a long, long look that somehow presaged nameless things-- not altogether unpleasant things... (20)
And here is Smith locked in the hypnotic embrace of the Tree of Life:
By now the calling was so unbearably intense, so intolerably sweet that somehow in its very strength it set free a part of his dazed mind as it passed the limits of audible things and soared into ecstasies which no senses bound. (100)
Much of the action of "Scarlet Dream" occurs in a parallel dream world filled with scenes such as this:
There was no sunrise in that land. Lucid day brightened slowly over the breathing landscape, and grass and trees stirred with wakening awareness, rather horribly [horribly, because plants here are carnivorous] in the beauty of the morning. When Smith woke, he saw the girl coming up from the lake, shaking blue water from her orange hair. Blue droplets clung to the creaminess of her skin, and she was laughing and flushed from head to toe in the glowing dawn. (122)
And when Smith and Yarol are exposed to the dust of the gods, Smith sees this vision of the distant past:
He thought he saw mighty landscapes ringed by such mountains as none of today's world know... he thought he saw a whiter sun than has shone for eons, lighting a land where rivers thundered between green banks... thought he saw many moons parading across a purple night wherein shone constellations that haunted him with familiarity in the midst of their strangeness... saw a green star where red Mars should be, and a far pin-prick of white where the green point that is Earth hangs. Cities reeled past across the crystal darkness in shapes stranger than any that history records. (165)
All in all, old fashioned space opera at its best. And while that phrase might be trite, I daresay that it is accurate.
* Sound familiar? Think of him as the ancestor of Han Solo.
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