- Time travel, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Fiction, fantasy, general
Greed pulls the archaeologist Matt Carse into the forgotten tomb of the Martian god Rhiannon and plunges the unlikely hero into the Red Planet's fantastic past, when vast oceans covered the land and the legendary Sea-Kings ruled from terraced palaces of decadence and delight.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Leigh Brackett
- First published
- December 1953
- Pages
- 131
- Publisher
- Gregg Press, Ace Books, Paizo Publishing
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780839825227
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Leigh Brackett was born in in Los Angeles, California and raised near Santa Monica. She spent her youth as an athletic tom-boy, playing volleyball and reading stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. She began writing fantastic adventures of her own, and her first published science fiction story was "Martian Quest", which appeared in the February 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Her first novel, No Good from a Corpse (1944), was a hard-boiled mystery novel. This novel inspired Hollywood director Howard Hawks to ask her to help William Faulkner write the script for the film The Big Sleep (1946). In 1946 she married science fiction author Edmond Hamilton, and after the re
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