Because My Tears Are Delicious to You 22: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett

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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Speaking of "Letter to a Phoenix", it seems to me an author could salvage the old Planetary Romances by setting them a couple of dozen Phoenix Cycles down the road, when there's been enough time for great civilizations to rise, reshape the Solar System and its neighbors and then fall hard.

[(Anonymous)]

I reread this a few weeks ago. To your review I would add two comments:

One is that her characters are rarely entirely good or bad. The best practice deception, with some zest, and are certainly working against their democratically elected government. The worst do have real fears to contend with - though some have an affection for murder as opposed to the law (the warehouse affair).

Second is the atmosphere. I was never jolted out of the book by something that didn't seem to fit. Even when there are aspects I find doubtful the prose keeps me going. And the ending is consistent with the world she has built.

I was quite happy to read it again. She was a more complex writer than I remembered.

William Hyde

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Nitpick: I think Brackett's character is Eric John Stark, not John Eric Stark.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

I think the first sentence has one burning too many.