The Sword of Rhiannon (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Leigh Brackett
- First Published: 1949
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—planetary romance
- Time of Work: An indefinite time in the future and the distant past
- Setting: Mars
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Extraterrestrial life, Future, Class consciousness, Time travel, Gods or goddesses, Mars
- Locales: Mars
The Plot
The novel opens sometime in the future on Mars, a cold, dry world littered with the ruins of an advanced civilization. Matt Carse, a rogue archaeologist from Earth, is approached by a local thief who gives him a sword as proof that he has found the tomb of Rhiannon, a legendary evil god. In the tomb, however, the untrustworthy thief knocks Carse into a glowing mass of energy that throws him millions of years into the past, when Mars was the home of several competing intelligent races.
Carse finds himself in the capital of Sark, the human empire allied with a...
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