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Almuric is a planetary romance penned in the Burroughsian style. Its hero is Esau Cairn, an old-fashioned boxer hopelessly incompatible with the modern American society. When a crooked politician tricks him into complicity, Cairn is overcome with blind rage and thrashes the politician to death.
Robert E. Howard's Almuric is a savage planet of crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow the terrible devils that enslave Almuric, but to do so he must first defeat the inner demons that forced him to abandon Earth.
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Almuric is a planetary romance about Esau Cairn, a boxer who is transported to a savage world where he becomes a hero. The novel was serialized in Weird Tales and published in book form in 1964, but it was unfinished and may have been completed by other writers.
The secret discovery of the scientist who had invented the space-transition machine, Almuric was a world of strange and terrible beings, of savages and swordsmen, of winged monsters and incredible secrets.
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And I chose the only planet I knew on which a human being could exist—the wild, primitive, and strange planet I named Almuric. Cairn understood the risks and uncertainties as well as I. But he was utterly fearless—and the thing was done.
Almuric features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn. He is transported through space to a world known as Almuric by unspecified scientific methods. While there, he...
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Almuric features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn. He is transported through space to a world known as Almuric by unspecified scientific methods. While there, he...
