When Super Heroes Are Conflicted

Summary


An old proverb for traveling between states is that no matter where you go, your baggage goes with you.

It is safe to say that Patricia Clarke Wildman has sufficient baggage before she ever sets foot in the Pemberly House of Jane Austen fame. Wildman, to be polite, has daddy issues. The daughter of the "real" Doc Savage, she continually wrestles with her incestous feelings for the newly deceased superman. It is whether she will find someone worthy enough to blot out the bronzed figure of her fantasies that keeps the pages turning in the late Philip Farmer's version of gothic horror.

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When Super Heroes Are Conflicted

Fans of Farmer who complained of him falling off since the early 1970s never really noticed how much he owed that era, and vice versa. For in that decade, taboos were still tangible, and the most ...

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