Weird Tales v26n04 October 1935 by Kurtis Krimes My rating: 4 of 5 stars This review is for C.L. Moore's 'The Cold Gray God.' Northwest is on Mars again, again.... again. Which is fine but I really wanted to head back to Venus. Anyway, at least it's not the same old dusty environs, here we start with a snowy setting on "Righa, pole city of Mars." Otherwise, it's a bit of a classic start for a Northwest. He spots a beautiful woman standing out from the crowd and she asks "will you come with me?" Of course, Northwest knows what she means by this, because apparently he could tell that she was no ordinary lady of the streets, but this reader could not parse any deep meaning from the exchange. Naturally, he follows. Well, at least to half satisfy my Venusian dreams, the lady in question is "Judai of Venus [who] had been the toast of three planets a few years past." Her songs once celebrated through to the ...
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