C. L. Moore (1911-1987) was born on this date, January 24. Shen was one of the greatest writers of the fantastic in the 20th Century.
For today’s post, I’m going to continue the series I’ve been doing on her character Northwest Smith. Smith is frequently regarded as a Han Solo prototype.
In “The Tree of Life” he’s on his own, without his Venusain partner Yarol.
The opening of the story could have been written by Leigh Brackett, and I had to remind myself that this story is set on a different Mars than the one Brackett wrote about. Continue reading
