{"id":923,"date":"2020-07-22T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?post_type=sw_canon&#038;p=923"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:38:38","slug":"northwest-of-earth-2","status":"publish","type":"sw_canon","link":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/canon\/northwest-of-earth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest of&nbsp;Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Northwest of Earth<\/em> contains for the first time the complete Northwest Smith stories, both primary works appearing in <em>Weird Tales<\/em> in the 1930s and also fanzine\/collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&#8220;Shambleau&#8221; (Weird Tales, November 1933). On Mars, Northwest rescues a strange, beautiful girl from the Lakkdarol mob. They become very close &#8211; but in fact, she is not a girl, nor a human being at all, and the mob had a good reason to try to kill her\u201d\u00a6<\/li><li>&#8220;Black Thirst&#8221; (Weird Tales, April 1934). A Minga woman invites Northwest into the forbidden Venusian fortress where she lives. It turns out to be even more dangerous than expected.<\/li><li>&#8220;Scarlet Dream&#8221; (Weird Tales, May 1934). An oddly-patterned shawl that Northwest picks up in Lakkdarol gives him unpleasant dreams.<\/li><li>&#8220;Dust of Gods&#8221; (Weird Tales, August 1934). Northwest and Yarol take a job searching for the physical remnants of a dead god in northern Mars.<\/li><li>&#8220;Julhi&#8221; (Weird Tales, March 1935). Northwest takes a wrong turn in the ruins of Vonng, Venus.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Cold Gray God&#8221; (Weird Tales, October 1935). In the polar city of Righa on Mars, Northwest meets a Venusian lady who isn&#8217;t quite herself.<\/li><li>&#8220;Yvala&#8221; (Weird Tales, February 1936). Northwest and Yarol go looking to capture slave-women on one of Jupiter&#8217;s moons and find out more about themselves.<\/li><li>&#8220;Lost Paradise&#8221; (Weird Tales, July 1936). A little old man with a big secret helps Northwest learn more about ancient Lunar history.<\/li><li>&#8220;The Tree of Life&#8221; (Weird Tales, October 1936). In the ruins of Illar, Northwest finds out more about the Martian drylanders&#8217; past.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>&#8220;Nymph of Darkness&#8221; (Fantasy Magazine fanzine, April 1935; written with Forrest J. Ackerman)<\/li><li>&#8220;Quest of the Starstone&#8221; (Weird Tales, November 1937; written with Henry Kuttner)<\/li><li>&#8220;Werewoman&#8221; (Leaves fanzine, Winter 1938\/39)<\/li><li>&#8220;Song in a Minor Key&#8221; (Scienti-Snaps fanzine, February 1940). Northwest meditates on his own past life.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The complete adventures of Northwest Smith. A dark haired man with &#8220;space bronzed&#8221; skin and pale eyes, who wears brown spacer&#8217;s leathers and carries a raygun at his side &#8211; he is a smuggler and outlaw adventuring through the solar system with his Venusian sidekick, Yarol in their small and unspectacular but surprisingly fast and agile ship, the Maid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":924,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[198],"tags":[81,86],"media":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_canon\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_canon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sw_canon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sw_canon\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}