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Indlæser... The Falcon Killeraf L. Ron Hubbard
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. This is a great one! Very sharp and confident! Ingenious plot and hero. ( ) This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. The Falcon Killer, an enjoyable adventure story, deals with intrigue following the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930s. L. Ron Hubbard had a solid grasp of the politics of that area of the world prior to America's involvement in World War II, when many Americans were paying little attention to events there. The Chinese characters in particular had a greater depth than I had been expecting from a story written around the time of the events depicted. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. With The Falcon Killer and others, Galaxy Press has created a marvelous package for a completely unremarkable collection of L. Ron Hubbard pulp stories. If only the works of other, more deserving, pulp stalwarts such as Howard, Hammett, Heinlein, and Williamson could be given this same treatment; but then they didn’t have the chutzpah to form their own religion, which then created its own publishing company to keep every last word of its beloved founder’s canon in print long after the expiration date had lapsed.The afterword following the story is a bald-faced attempt to rewrite pulp history with Hubbard as the centerpiece. Assertions that Hubbard was “leading pulp fiction’s elite,” or that he produced “the genre’s first truly character-driven works” are baseless. The claim that he alone “launched the golden age of science fiction” is so far removed from reality as to be ludicrous. The assertions that his story “Fear” became “the foundation of every modern tale of horror,” and was “one of the very few works to genuinely warrant that overworked term ‘classic’” mightily stretch the truth. And while Hubbard did indeed contribute many stories to editor John W. Campbell’s classic weird pulp, the claim that Unknown was inaugurated “to accommodate the greater body of [his] fantasies” does disservice to the many other wonderful authors, such as Leiber and Sturgeon and Eric Frank Russell, associated with the magazine. Hubbard’s story of the Falcon Killer is standard pulp age stuff, with prose that veers towards the purple occasionally. Stereotypical Asian slang of the time is used, playing up the confusion between the usage of “l”s and “r”s, for instance. Barely more than cardboard characters move the action along adequately, but it’s difficult to value this as anything more than a way to pass a couple of hours while trying to get to sleep on a dark and stormy night. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. I found this to be a fairly interesting story. It's a little slow in parts (and considering how short it is, I was a bit surprised by this!) but it's kind of fun. I did kind of like the glimpses of world views that I found in the book. It's very dated and as such very un-PC, but that seems to be part of the overall charm. All in all, a pretty good story. I would read more of these older L. Ron Hubbard stories if I came across them. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This story is a trite and disposable little novel, though sufficient in its ambitions to provide a simple and thrilling adventure yarn. The story is definitely dated with a jingoist attitude towards all of the Chinese, Japanese and the Russian characters being crude stereotypes. The hero is the archtypical swashbuckler, damsel in distress, close calls and double crosses, are check, check and double check on the pulp adventure stock list. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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The Japanese military has turned the once-thriving Chinese city of Nencheng into a reeking pile of blood and ash. And now the Japanese Rising Sun threatens to scorch the ancient--and oil-rich--Kingdom of the Silver Lake. Can the Chinese survive the onslaught? Do they have a prayer? The answer is about to fall out of the sky. He is The Falcon Killer. China's ace fighter pilot and scourge of the Japanese air force, he is in fact Bill Gaylord, an American orphaned and self-reliant--a man without a country and without fear. Like William Holden, he's the guy every man wants to be . . . and every woman wants to be with. Shot down over Nencheng, Gaylord parachutes into the arms of the one woman who can give him reason to live . . . and to rejoin the fight against Japan--as he squares off against their top spy. His prey is in his sights, and catching it will change everything . . . for The Falcon Killer. As a young man, Hubbard visited Manchuria, where his closest friend headed up British intelligence in northern China. Hubbard gained a unique insight into the intelligence operations and spy-craft in the region as well as the hostile political climate between China and Japan--a knowledge that informs stories like The Falcon Killer. No library descriptions found. |
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