Saturday, 25 December 2004
Recent Reading
- Under the Green Star, by Lin Carter; DAW, 1972; No. 30. In the
1970s Lin Carter wrote some “planetary romances”, including the
Green Star series, in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars
books and others. I prefer Carter’s Wizard of Zao (where, it seems
to me, Carter achieved a sense of light humorous fantasy that has
rarely been equaled), but the Green Star series is a fair tribute to
the genre of planetary romances, though it lacks the breadth and depth
of its near contemporary, Kenneth Bulmer’s extensive Kregen novels
about Dray Prescot. In any case, I’ll have to find the fourth and
fifth books in the Green Star series sometime.
- When the Green Star Calls, by Lin Carter; DAW, 1973; UE1732.
- By the Light of the Green Star, by Lin Carter; DAW, 1974; No. 110.
- The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin, copyright 1970, 1971;
originally published by Atheneum, 1971; Bantam Books, September 1975;
14th printing, January 1981. This was the first of Le Guin’s Earthsea
books that I read, when I was a youngster, and I found it utterly
fascinating then and now.