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Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter, and contemplating a sin

The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett

May 14, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

In some not so distant future after a nuclear war, humanity lives in primativist small communities to guard against future attack. In the epigraph of the novel we see that there’s been a 30th amendment preventing towns of more than 1000 people. This is to guard against the mass death they clearly experienced, but what this has led to is a lost sense of American identity and the formations of 1000s of small towns with small town histories, cultures, and identities. Len Colton and his […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: leigh brackett, the long tomorrow

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:251 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: leigh brackett, the long tomorrow ·
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Would you stay if she promised to you heaven?

March 5, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Psych! Rhiannon is totally a dude. At least in this one. This is a pulpy sci fi/fantasy novel from the early 1950s. Leigh Brackett is most famous for writing the screenplay for The Big Sleep and for an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back before she died in the late 1970s. But this novel is more in the vain of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Princess of Mars) and Robert Howard (Conan), than space operas. It’s space in the sense that it takes place on “Mars” but it’s […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: leigh brackett, the sword of rhiannon

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:76 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: leigh brackett, the sword of rhiannon ·
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