Tarrano the Conqueror, by Ray Cummings
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The year is 2430. The Earth awakens to find its leaders murdered! All major cities are in turmoil. It is rumored an interplanetary plot is underway. When the same situation arises on Mars, panic ensues. Who is responsible? The ruler of Venus sends word that he will protect the Earth if all its citizens will recognize and honor his supreme authority. A defiant Earth Council refuses to submit to such blatant tyranny. Then a second message arrives from the stars: Tarrano the Conqueror declares war on the Earth! With an introduction by Tom Roberts.
Tarrano the Conqueror, by Ray Cummings- Amazon Sales Rank: #4177222 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-23
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .39" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 172 pages
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Wonderful classic Golden Age SciFi By John O'Connor Ray Cummings was one of the Golden Age scifi writers who had stories published nearly every month in the pulps. Some of them were great and some were less than great, but that was the same with all of them. Tarrano was one of his greats. It was more a political thriller than a scifi, though, and since it was written in the 1930s, it foreshadowed what was going on in Germany, and I am not the only one who saw quite a bit of Hitler in Tarrano. A wonderful read for anyone, even those who are not too fond of scifi. Cummings was a great writer.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The Dangers of Charisma By Paul Camp _Tarrano the Conqueror_ was serialized in Hugo Gernsback's _Science and Invention_ in 1925 and published in book form five years later. It contains one of Cummings's best villains. In most of Cummings's novels, the villains are either deformed or ugly. Physical abnormality is linked with moral depravity. Not so with Tarrano. He is described as hawklike, handsome, and smiling. He has a musical voice. But perhaps most significantly, he has a magnetic personality, a dominant force that "radiated like a tower code-beam"(28). Even his enemies readily acknowledge Tarrano's greatness. Tarrano is an obscure military officer on Venus who rises to great military power and nearly conquers three planets. He is eventually defeated and exiled to an asteroid populated with insectlike creatures with the woman who loves him (but who he is too egotistical to love). Almost certainly, Tarrano is modeled on Napoleon. Tarrano's speech is a curious mixture of stiltedness and Machiavellian shrewdness: "People are fools-- almost everyone-- it is no great feat to dominate them." (36) "Ah! Patriotism! A good lure for the masses... For rulers, a good mask with which to hide their unscrupulous schemes." (38) "Altruism! It is very pretty in theory-- but quite nonsensical...Each man to his own destiny-- the weak go down and the strong go up. It is the way of all life-- animal and human." (38) Minor villains are more obviously cardboard. They leer and sneer at their victims but cravenly beg for mercy when they face death in turn. _Tarrano_ was reprinted in the Summer, 1941 issue of _Science Fiction Quarterly_. A few months later, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the United States entered World War II. I wonder how many readers of the day compared Tarrano with Adolph Hitler.
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