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The adventure, however, does not conclude with the deadly climax, but with a coda emphasizing tragic waste and loss, as our transformed but melancholy hero and his woman courageously embrace a risky new world. All of this, of course, delivered in spare, evocative prose.
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The time-travel plot gives this tale an additional opulence, for it allows us to experience Mars during two very different ages (silver age with water, bronze age without), plus the glimpse of an earlier golden age in which gods like Rhiannon walked.īrackett is so efficient in her tale-telling skill that she earns the luxury of liberty, and uses that liberty to please her reader with an abundance of incident: desert pursuit, chicanery and double-dealing, tomb exploration, magic swords and mind-reading, humanoids with gills, humanoids with wings, royal imprisonment, a military sea expedition, a galley slave revolt, serpent-monks manipulating deadly machines, and the insistent presence of a god who wishes to rule minds so that he may alter the course of history. Anti-hero Matthew Carse, a rogue archeologist turned tomb-looter, is not a nice guy, but the complex plot leads him naturally so far from his thievish ways that we are not surprised at how his character has deepened by story's end. This very short novel is an excellent introduction to the efficiency and richness of the planetary romances of Brackett. And out of all the titles I had recently read, one shone forth as exemplary: "The Sword of Rhiannon." Instead of thinking of the masterful direction of Howard Hawks, I was conscious of how each scene was classic Brackett. This time, though, my experience was slightly different.
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I was struck-as always-by how elegantly and efficiently the first half is constructed, how it delivers all the necessary information of a complex back story-not to mention a wealth of memorable incidents and images-and leaves us almost a full hour for an equally rich development of the main conflict: Cole and J.P.'s stand-off with Bart Jason and his men.
Since I have been reading a lot of Leigh Brackett recently, I decided it might be fun to watch the first half of "Eldorado" again-one of my all-time favorite Westerns-for which Brackett wrote the screenplay. I was struck-as always-by how elegantly and efficiently the first half is constructed, how it delivers all the necessary information of a complex back story-not to mention a wealth of memorable incidents and images-and leaves us almost a full hour for an equally rich development of the
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