{"id":206,"date":"2014-03-22T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T02:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurespasteditions.com\/?product=the-moon-pool-the-classic-science-fantasy-novelette-by-a-merritt"},"modified":"2014-03-22T07:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T02:28:48","slug":"the-moon-pool-the-classic-science-fantasy-novelette-by-a-merritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurespasteditions.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"THE MOON POOL: The Classic Science Fantasy Novelette by A. Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n
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The Story that Helped Make SF Famous!<\/em><\/p>\n

This 1915 classic tells the story of a pool of force inside Polynesia's Nan Matol ruins created by the vibrational pattern of seven different lights, which release the \"Shining One,\" a powerful, luminous being of radiant matter who can race down moonbeams, bearing away to his own realm men and women who wear a mingled expression of ecstasy and loathing on their faces.<\/p>\n

The<\/em> SF Encyclopedia<\/em> hails him as \"the supreme fantasy genius of his day.\" The mainstream Hartford Times<\/em> called him a writer who \"weaves a web of fantasy\u2026with poignancy and poetry\u2026stories of tremendous action and excitement.\" And the Saturday Review of Literature<\/em> named him \"a genius\" whose work displayed \"a fertility of imaginative resource\u2026unique, eerie, compelling.\"<\/p>\n

This is the original 15,000 word novelette, which was seriously abridged when joined with the sequel to make the novel The Moon Pool<\/em>. Not only was Merritt a monumental success in his lifetime (1884-1943), but also he remained the field's bestselling author for the next four decades, selling over 7 million copies of his work in the U.S. alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n \t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n

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