![]() ![]() The fifth story, “ Quest of the Starstone”, isn’t present in every edition of this collection, but it is an interesting one because it pairs Jirel with another Moore hero from another series: a Han-Solo-like roguish space smuggler with the impossibly awesome name of Northwest Smith. “Quest of the Starstone” (1937), with Henry Kuttner.Moore wrote six short stories starring her sword-and-sorcery queen warrior, one of which she wrote together with her husband Henry Kuttner, who was a successful science fiction writer in his own right at the time. The Jirel of Joiry collection was put together and published in 1969 but the stories inside them all stem from the 1930s when they appeared in the Weird Tales pulp magazine, alongside those of Howard and only a few years after his first Conan stories. ![]() ![]() Jirel is a queen in a medieval version of France, whose adventures frequently take her to dimensions of Hell. ![]() Lovecraft was writing, and we get the stories of Jirel of Joiry. Add to that some of the cosmic horror that H.P. Moore, who as one of the few female authors of fantasy fiction at the time, felt compelled as the Conan stories came out to write a female version. As his Conan stories began to appear in the Weird Tales pulp magazine, so many writers felt compelled to either write homages to the stories or write something in contrast to them. Howard made such a splash with his sword-and-sorcery writing. ![]()
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