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Leo Saint-Clair, alias the Nyctalope, was created in 1911 by Jean de La Hire, one of France's most prolific serial writers. Gifted with night vision, hypnotic powers and an artificial heart, Saint-Clair is a fearless hero who battles colorful super-villains. His adventures, which spanned 30 years, created a template that was later adopted by such pulp heroes as Doc Savage (1933), before providing the core mythology of American comic books. In The Nyctalope on Mars (1911), Leo faces the megalomaniacal Oxus, master of the secret society of the Fifteen, who is plotting to conquer Earth from his secret base on Mars. After defeating the Fifteen, the Nyctalope must then face an ever more fearsome foe: H. G. Wells' Martians. "The Nyctalope on Mars predicted the course that popular fiction was to follow in the next 50 years." Brian Stableford. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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A lot of descriptions of how people are feeling and how their feelings change. You'd rarely see an enemy become a friend in a Burroughs book for instance. The translator who quite dislikes* the book considered those sorts of things inconsistencies of character and therefore flaws but i really enjoyed these shifts, they felt quite human to me.
Its sort of like a pulp mixed with a melodrama. Oh and its also set a few years after the martian invasion from H.G. Wells 'War of the Worlds' which is pretty neat.
There are a couple of strong female characters which always nice. One of them is kind of a bitch too, which is also welcome :), she's pretty much an anti-hero. Female characters rarely get to act badly and still be the good guys.
It's still a pulp though and suffers a bit from its serial origin although not as much as the translator believes. Its main issue is that it goes on longer than it probably should and then just kind of tapers away at the end.
The literary equivalent of a B-Movie but of the better variety :) .
*I assume the editor also hates this book as BlackCoatPress edition has innumerable errors. Actually they're not innumerable because i counted all 91 of them!!! Hopefully future readers will not have to deal with those problems as i sent the complete list of mistakes to the publisher. Luckily they're not a Take-Away or i'm sure they would spit in my food ;) . As it is i'll be upgrading my anti-virus before opening their next response :P . ( )