I suppose I could have waited and used this classic adventure novel for Patti Abbott’s FORGOTTEN BOOKS on Friday, but why wait? There’s a rugged soldier-of-fortune, Eric Nelson, battling the unknown forces. There’s a beautiful woman (featured on the the wonderful EMSH cover) who Nelson has to save from unimaginable dangers. And all of that within 159 pages. Eric Nelson takes on a mysterious assignment deep in the borderlands of Tibet. There, in a legendary valley, Shan Kar, the man who has hired him, tells Nelson that he is humankind’s last ditch defense against the valley’s intelligent animals, who plan to take over the world. If Nelson is successful, his reward is a fabulous treasure in platinum not far from the city of the animals. But after an encounter with a beautiful warrior-maid who fights along side the animals, and an encounter with a telepathic wolf, Nelson wonders if he has been told the whole story. To find out he will has to enter the city of the animals, have his own personality transferred into the body of a wolf and run with the pack. If you’re in the mood for an out-of-body experience and a brief return to a “sense of wonder,” read The Valley of Creation. GRADE: B+
Interesting. This looks like something I’d like to read, provided there’s a happy ending for the animals.
Say, my cat is looking at me in an odd way…
Edmond Hamilton was a master of making the animals in his stories as real as the humans, Rick. You’ll enjoy THE VALLY OF CREATION. Hamilton was a born story-teller.
Re-reading your review, I am reminded of Brackett’s GINGER STAR.
GINGER STAR and THE VALLEY OF CREATION tap into the same “sense of wonder” adventure readers love, Rick.
I have never read a single adventure tale–not even Treasure Island or Kidnapped. Too busy reading books that were mired in reality, I’m afraid.
TREASURE ISLAND and KIDNAPPED are a lot more fun than Reality, Patti. You should give them a try.
That’s too bad, Patti, those books are an awful lot of fun, and fun is mostly what I read books for, at least anymore. Oh, and who says adventure novels aren’t in a realistic context? Kidnapped certainly is, and so are most of them.If you’ve never read Treasure Island, you really ought to try it.
TREASURE ISLAND, the movie, is plenty of fun, too, Patti.
So are you a Wallace Beery guy, or a Robert Newton guy? I vacillate, but lean toward Newton.
I’m solidly in the Robert Newton camp, Art. When I think “prirate” I think of Newton.
The list grows.
I bet you my list is longer than your list, Patti. We can compare them in Indy.