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Northwest of Earth
Dust-jacket from the first editionAuthor(s) C. L. Moore Cover artist Ric Binkley Country United States Language English Genre(s) Science fiction and Fantasy short stories Publisher Gnome Press Publication date 1954 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 212 pp ISBN NA OCLC Number 1826570 Northwest of Earth is a 1954 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by C. L. Moore. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1954 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains stories about Moore's characters Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
Contents
- "The Cold Gray God"
- "The Dark Land"
- "Dust of Gods"
- "Hellsgarde"
- "Julhi"
- "Lost Paradise"
- "Yvala"
Reception
P. Schuyler Miller praised the collection as "full of the lush, colorful tapestry of words which Merritt did best of all, and which we lack in most modern science fiction."[1] J. Francis McComas reviewed it favorably in The New York Times, but noted that it represented Moore's "youthful" work.[2]
References
- ^ Miller, P. Schuyler. "The Reference Library," Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1955, pp.148-49.
- ^ "Spacemen's Realm", The New York Times Book Review, November 4, 1954, p.21
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 303.
- Contento, William G.. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". http://www.philsp.com/homeville/ISFAC/t72.htm#A1555. Retrieved 2008-02-28.
Categories:- 1954 short story collections
- Science fiction short story collections
- Fantasy short story collections
- Works originally published in Weird Tales
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