Victor Rousseau (1879–1960)

Don't read this if you're scared of bugs! This was more horror than sci fi, and horror is certainly not my genre of choice. Yet despite rampaging, devouring giant beetles, giant plot holes, weird conversations about monotremes, shallow characterisations and more dead bodies than it's possible to count, I just couldn't stop reading. Really I should have hated this book, but i just got carried away by the action.
I listened to the Librivox audiobook as part of their Astounding Stories show more collection from the 1930's. I liked the narrator's pacing, but she tended to stumble over her words and there were some audio issues. I appreciate her effort nonetheless.
Oh, nearly forgot. There was some blasphemy in this, which I don't like, but it was not gratuitous. show less

Straightforward magazine stories from the 1920-40's, little of which is memorable beyond the hideous racism as is to be expected with most lost world pulp from the early 20th C. The plot holes are wide, the white colonialism still in full force, the sword and sorcery action is pretty fun and the adventuring is, well, adventurous.

It's pure escapism, but one far removed from our (supposedly) modern, tolerant sensibilities.

Oh, and dinosaurs.