Review of C. L. Moore’s collection Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith

British science fiction critic Paul Kincaid has written a detailed review of Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith (2008, Paizo Publishing), a collection of thirteen classic science fiction short stories written by C. L. Moore predominately in the 1930s starring her interplanetary adventurer Northwest Smith. Moore's collection contains five stories set on Mars:

• "Shambleau" (Weird Tales, November 1933)

• "Scarlet Dream" (Weird Tales, May 1934)

• "Dust of Gods" (Weird Tales, August 1934)

• "The Cold Gray God" (Weird Tales, October 1935)

• "The Tree of Life" (Weird Tales, October 1936)

In concluding his review, Paul Kincaid writes: “For all that, the Northwest Smith stories have a raw power that makes them enduringly readable. They represent the peak of 1930s pulp fiction, and if their plot lines and two-fisted hero seem out of place compared to today's fiction, that also makes them fascinatingly different.”

Note that I recently bought C. L. Moore's Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith (2008) from Paizo Publishing.