kojootti Wrote:
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> Dale Nelson Wrote:
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> > And there are two versions of The Moon Pool,
> > aren't there? So which do you prefer --
> whoever
> > cares to comment?
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> I have only read the original short story version,
> and I think it's a very remarkable jewel of a
> weird tale. It focuses largely on exploring (but
> never truly revealing) an ethereal, ancient
> mystery on a distant island.
>
> The second version is an extended novel which
> takes the original short story and tacks on a much
> longer, much more conventional adventure in the
> lost land genre. I haven't read it myself, and I
> don't feel much desire to, but supposedly it isn't
> so bad, even if it doesn't measure up to the
> beauty, mystery, and originality of the short
> story.
I have read both. And as you say, the original short story is a finely and rather subtly written weird tale. The second version that is tacked onto and adapted to the follow-up story "The Conquest of the Moon Pool" and together published as the whole book
The Moon Pool, has lost some of the fine subtlety and is more pulpy. I enjoyed the follow-up part in the book, because it has richly imaginative details, but it was also pulpy and inflated if my memory serves me right.
But I have not yet read the original magazine version of "The Conquest of the Moon Pool", so don't know if it is any different from its placement in the book.
I can say that I have read the magazine versions of "The Face In the Abyss" and "The Snake Mother", and they are much richer than the combined, shortened Avon paperback version
The Face In the Abyss.
The original version of
The Metal Monster has been published by
[Hippocampus Press].
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 15 Feb 20 | 01:25AM by Knygatin.