-Hank Davis, THE WHEEL TURNS IN Poul Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. vii-xii AT p. x.
Heinlein credited the title of the song, "The Green Hills of Earth", to the short story "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore (first published in 1933),[2] in which a spacefaring smuggler named Northwest Smith hums the tune. Moore and Henry Kuttner also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story "Quest of the Starstone," which quotes several lines of lyrics.
-copied from here.
Does anyone know whether Northwest Smith is worth tracking down?
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I am convince a good movie version of "A Tragedy Of Errors" would be FAR better than any of the over hyped STAR WARS movies!!!
I don't recall reading any of C.L. Moore's Northwest Smith stories, so I can't either recommend or not recommend reading them.
Ad astra! Sean
Those stories are full of pulpy goodness, and much better written than most of the pulps. If you're not put off by old tropes, they're well worth reading.
The flamboyant hero-rogue is a very old type of character in adventure fiction. The Three Miusketeers is an example, with Porthos best fitting the trope.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I don't mind old tropes or flamboyantly pulpy goodies, so I hope to find some of C.L. Moore's stories.
Ad astra! Sean
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