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heliopteryx's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
3.5
Lion Loose (1961)
The Searcher (1966)
The Winds of Time (1962)
The Pork Chop Tree (1965)
Greenface (1943)
Each story features resourceful, quick-thinking humans pitted against imaginative alien creatures. Lion Loose also has some crime thriller aspects, and both Lion Loose and The Searcher are decently long and have a lot of exposition about this bright, high-tech future with force fields and no relativity in space travel leading to a "new frontier" vibe that reminds me a lot of Star Trek and other sci fi from around that time period.
Lion Loose and The Searcher are both in the public domain and can be found online.
The Pork Chop Tree is very short and feels the most distinct. Explores the idea of finding something so perfectly wonderful, yet dangerous.
Greenface is set on Earth during the time it was written in, and notably has the most regressive gender relations. Compared to the strong and capable women in most of the other stories who men respect and treat as equals, this stood out to me as strange. I don't know if it was a commentary on the time and place of the setting, or if the author changed in the 20 years between writing that story and the others.
The Searcher (1966)
The Winds of Time (1962)
The Pork Chop Tree (1965)
Greenface (1943)
Each story features resourceful, quick-thinking humans pitted against imaginative alien creatures. Lion Loose also has some crime thriller aspects, and both Lion Loose and The Searcher are decently long and have a lot of exposition about this bright, high-tech future with force fields and no relativity in space travel leading to a "new frontier" vibe that reminds me a lot of Star Trek and other sci fi from around that time period.
Lion Loose and The Searcher are both in the public domain and can be found online.
The Pork Chop Tree is very short and feels the most distinct. Explores the idea of finding something so perfectly wonderful, yet dangerous.
Greenface is set on Earth during the time it was written in, and notably has the most regressive gender relations. Compared to the strong and capable women in most of the other stories who men respect and treat as equals, this stood out to me as strange. I don't know if it was a commentary on the time and place of the setting, or if the author changed in the 20 years between writing that story and the others.
Content Warnings
Greenface: Contains a couple of scenes where a man thinks about hitting his girlfriend, and threatens her once.
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