THE GAMES OF NEITH. New York: Ace Books, [1960]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Double D453. The author's third novel. The planet Gwethym was settled by colonists from Earth fleeing religious persecution. The settlers, "addicted to religious passion and excess" (St. Clair), worship the goddess Neith, "not because they believed in such a golden-haired being, but because they recognized the need for religion as a counterbalance to human passion" (publisher's blurb). THE GREEN QUEEN (1956) and THE GAMES OF NEITH (1960) "both feature heroines as active characters who are chosen to inspire or lead their respective societies toward change ... In THE GAMES OF NEITH, Anassa, Priestess to the Goddess of Neith, ... guides her seafaring society, which is threatening to return to the worship of primitive gods, to a new future. Anassa's relationship with Ehr'li Wan, a physics professor, is an excellent early example of a man and a woman in science fiction working in an equal part against evil forces." - Rosemary Herbert, Watson and Schellinger (editors), Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, third edition, p. 685. Bound with THE EARTH GODS ARE COMING by Kenneth Bulmer. Just a hint of rubbing to covers, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#139727).
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