The Zanthodon MEGAPACK by Lin Carter

Author:Lin Carter [Carter, Lin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: lost world, science fiction, edgar rice burroughs, adventure, fantasy
ISBN: 9781479404506
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

Time and time again they encountered crude and hasty barricades which the buccaneers flung athwart their path. These they leaped over or tore apart, slaying the corsairs by the dozens. It was not so much that the Barbary Pirates were poor fighters or lacking in the will to oppose the invaders, it was a simple and practical matter of arms.

The corsairs were poor bowmen. The Thandarians had hunted all their lives with bow and arrow, and to nock and loose a feathered shaft was instinctive to them. Time and again, as the corsairs massed to cut the invaders apart with sharp steel, a withering rain of barbed and aerial death cut them down before they could get close enough to the savages to employ the superiority of their weapons against them.

Tharn stooped, plucking a steel cutlass from the lax fingers of a dying pirate. He hefted the unfamiliar weapon cautiously, his expression thoughtful: the glittering blade was sharper than that of a knife of flint or copper or bronze, would resist nicks better and would obviously hold an edge far longer. Moreover, the long curved blade was cunningly weighted in such a manner that even he could see it was a superbly designed weapon with which to slash and cut.

He passed orders down the line that his warriors were to retrieve from their fallen foe all such weapons, one to each man. Rapidly, the Cro-Magnons began gathering a harvest of gory steel.

Thandar had been entering upon the Bronze Age; but now the tribe had entered upon a more advanced era.…

* * * *

They dragged Kâiradine Redbeard from the gasping, half-throttled body of Yussef, and restrained him until his wild frenzy calmed and he was able to listen to reason.

“My prince, the city is under attack,” cried Achmed. “None but you can lead us against the savages—”

At that very moment one of Kâiradine’s servants burst into the room and fell upon his knees before the panting, wildeyed, disheveled figure of his lord.

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