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Flame Goddess
In an age that takes wireless for granted and its beginning to tire of television, it seems incredible that parts of the globe are still unexplored.
Powerful modern steamers connect landmass with landmass, island with peninsula, and archipelago with isthmus. Screaming jets roar through the upper atmosphere, at speeds in excess of a thousand miles an hour.
"Yet the mysteries remain." The ancient planet is reluctant to divulge her timeless secrets to the probing, insolent minds of mortal man.
On a remote island, amid weird reef-ridden seas, the Flame Goddess lives on... "immortal.".. "undisturbed.".. alone, save for her primitive worshipers.
And then the white man came...
Powerful modern steamers connect landmass with landmass, island with peninsula, and archipelago with isthmus. Screaming jets roar through the upper atmosphere, at speeds in excess of a thousand miles an hour.
"Yet the mysteries remain." The ancient planet is reluctant to divulge her timeless secrets to the probing, insolent minds of mortal man.
On a remote island, amid weird reef-ridden seas, the Flame Goddess lives on... "immortal.".. "undisturbed.".. alone, save for her primitive worshipers.
And then the white man came...
320 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1961
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October 22, 2019
Lionel Roberts (pen name of Lionel Fanthorpe) is said to have wrote a book every dozen or so days at his most prolific. And I would say that it shows.
The early parts of this book left me feeling that this was a laughably bad piece of pulp fiction (and I have often loved pulp fiction), some of the sentences were so badly written I had to re-read them just to believe it. Still it was fun, like watching "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or "Ninja Terminator".
However, as the plot got weirder the writing improved and it actually became quite interesting in a very 70's trippy way. As if the author became more interested himself and put in a bit more effort.
Don't read this book if you're after great literature. Don't even read it if your after the more decent end of pulp fiction. Read it on a budget flight where there are no movies, or on the toilet.
The early parts of this book left me feeling that this was a laughably bad piece of pulp fiction (and I have often loved pulp fiction), some of the sentences were so badly written I had to re-read them just to believe it. Still it was fun, like watching "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or "Ninja Terminator".
However, as the plot got weirder the writing improved and it actually became quite interesting in a very 70's trippy way. As if the author became more interested himself and put in a bit more effort.
Don't read this book if you're after great literature. Don't even read it if your after the more decent end of pulp fiction. Read it on a budget flight where there are no movies, or on the toilet.
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