When the Green Star Calls

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When the Green Star Calls

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Author(s):

Lin Carter

First Pub:

1973

Genre(s):

Fantasy; Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

See 30

PART I - THE BOOK OF KARN THE HUNTER

1 - The Voice from Beyond

2 - The Thing on the Moon

3 - Into the Unknown

4 - The Dead City

5 - I Live Again!

PART II - THE BOOK OF SARCHIMUS THE WISE

6 - The Scarlet Pylon

7 - The City of Monsters

8 - The Winged Men

9 - Hoom of the Many Eyes

10 - Janchan of Phaolon

PART III - THE BOOK OF ZARQA THE KALOOD

11 - The Elixir of Light

12 - The Sky-Sled

13 - The Flight to Ardha

14 - Entering the Yellow City

15 - The Crimson Sign

PART IV - THE BOOK OF JANCHAN OF PHAOLON

16 - Swords in the Night

17 - The Messenger of Heaven

18 - A Dangerous Mission

19 - When Comrades Meet

20 - The Thing at the Window

PART V - THE BOOK OF KLYGON THE ASSASSIN

21 - Winged Horror

22 - Black Masks in the Night

23 - The House of Gurjan Tor

24 - I Learn the Arts of Stealth

25 - Project Three

Internal ID:

13544

Series:

<- Under the Green Star - By the Light of the Green Star ->

Green Star Saga*

#2 of 5

Green Star Saga*

A science fiction series by Lin Carter.

View this series in the book list

1) Under the Green Star
2) When the Green Star Calls
3) By the Light of the Green Star
4) As the Green Star Rises
5) In the Green Star's Glow

Copyright:

Dedication:

For Scott Bizar,
who also likes an
old-fashioned yarn.

First Sentence:

Night after night, I heard that strange and inward call.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

I hung there helplessly, as Zarqa the Kalood and Prince Janchan flew to safety, bearing away Niamh the Fair - leaving me behind, dangling far above the street, at the mercy of the Assassins, in the city of my enemies in which I no longer had one single friend!

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Added: 10-Feb-2023

Last Updated: 10-Feb-2023

Publications

01-Jul-1973

DAW Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jul-1973

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$0.95

Pages*:

173

Catalog ID:

UQ1062

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

13059

Publisher:

DAW Books

ISBN:

0-879-97062-6

ISBN-13:

978-0-879-97062-8

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Luis Dominguez - Cover Artist

UNKNOWN
WORLD FOR CONQUEST!

To him, his native Earth was a prison of the mind and body. For him, only the lure of the wonder world that revolved in the rays of the nameless green star was worth the struggle to live. And finally the call came....

But awaiting him there was only the body of a primitive youth, while the city of his beloved princess was far away. And once revived, he found himself the puppet of a half-mad experimenter in immortality and the companion of the last living monster of a race that had once been ruler of that world.

Lin Carter, master of fantasy, has produced another marvelous novel in the Burroughs-Merritt tradition to stand alongside his
UNDER THE GREEN STAR.

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Printing, July 1973
Third printing based on the number line

Author(s)

Lin Carter
Birth: 09 Jun 1930 St. Petersburg, Florida, US
Death: 07 Feb 1988 Montclair, New Jersey, US

Notes:

Lin Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was born and raised in St Petersburg, Florida. He later returned there after serving in the US Army in the Korean Conflict where he received a Purple Heart. He moved to New York City and attended Columbia University in 1953 and 1954. He worked as a copywriter for law firms, ad agencies, and book publishers. In 1969 he became a full-time writer, editor and anthologist of fantasy & science fiction until his death in February 7, 1988.

Fantasy was Carter's great favorite genre and the most of his writings were about "Swords and Sorcery". He began writing stories while in high school with L Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien being his major influences.

Lin became an editor at Ballantine Books where he reprinted many of his earlier works. Dell and DAW also published a lot of Lin Carter's stories.

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