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Grand old SF

Revisado: 01-23-25

Rather good story for its time. Campbells obvious enthusiasm for pseudoscience is contagious even if he sometimes overdoes it.

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Good background and characters.

Revisado: 03-14-24

Very nice. Well read. But I liked the next book in the MacDonald series even better. This one was bogged down a bit with all the discourses by diverse people who helped MacDonald to solve the case.

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Fine story well told!

Revisado: 03-10-24

One of Loracs best in my opinion. The country settings and the characters are convincing and interesting. The plot is fine. It is well read, with the unimportant exception of the clergymans rediculously exaggerated nasal soprano voice.

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Unusual classic with a twist ending

Revisado: 02-29-24

Started out with a long houseparty that did become a bit chatty. Then went on with the detective trying to manipulate the inquiery in amusing but unlikely ways. But towards the end I could not stop reading until the twist ending. Turned out I liked the book better than I thought during the first half of the story, although it may not be this authors best effort.

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Poetry in prose and grand sense of wonder

Revisado: 06-15-23

This old classic has preserved much of its sense of wonder. The extremely old fashioned, rich, poetic and almost hypnotic language will put many readers off but if you are in a receptible and romantic mood you will enjoy this actually quite remarkable adventure. If this is ”purple language” I like it.

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Well read!

Revisado: 12-21-22

Classic stories well read. I did not, however, realise that all stories are read first in german and then in english. Thus the book contained only half as much as I had expected. As it turned out I did find the english translations useful in some places although most of it was fairly easy to understand in german.

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Zusätzlich zu meiner vorherigen Rezension

Revisado: 08-29-22

Zusätzlich zu meiner vorherigen Rezension sollte ich hinzufügen, dass das Hörbuch im Vergleich zur gedruckten Version leicht gekürzt wurde, zumindest im Vergleich zur Ausgabe 2015, die ich habe. Der Zweck der Abkürzungen scheint darin zu sein, das Buch besser zum Zuhören geeignet zu machen. Es wurde nicht wesentlich verkürzt.

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Great stuff!

Revisado: 02-13-22

Dreamlike and imaginative sword and sorcery. C. L. Moore and Robert E. Howard remain two of the most readable pulp writers of the Weird Tales era. The stories are well plotted and sometimes verge on the surreal. The first two stories are closely connected and remind me of The Nightland by William Hope Hodgson. Well read. Recommended.

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Good Poul Anderson anyway...

Revisado: 01-03-22

Skyways was a very good novel. In contrast to what another reviewer wrote I felt that it was well written and quite exiting. Anderson had a poetic and romantic side which shows here. The ending sort of laid the ground for more to come, but as far as I know he never wrote a sequel. The Smith novel was OK and perfectly readable. The Coblentz was not so good. A bit boring. I liked his even older stories from the pulps better. They had more ”sense of wonder”.

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Three good old SF novels

Revisado: 12-31-21

This Volume 4 is the best of the Galaxy Trilogy series. The other three all have at least one novel that is a bit substandard in one way or another, but in this collection the standard in uniformly high. Not that these stories are masterpieces but they are all good. The ”Grinnell” story is one of Wollheims best and the Long novel is likewise one of Longs better efforts. Chandler is usually good, and this early Rimworld story is up to his normal standard, allthough the adventures are perhaps not as extravagant as in his later Grimes books. The reading is also good, Recommended.

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