Reviews of “When I Was Ming the Merciless” (1976) and related work
- Same source material: Flash Gordon (1980)
“When I Was Ming the Merciless” (1976
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Gene Wolfe (writer).
Read in 2025.
Read in the collection Endangered Species (1989).
A set of coincidental correspondences between one player in a game and the main villain of Flash Gordon (1934).
‣ Flash Gordon (1980
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Camp. I’ve seen it twice; all I remembered from the first time, in childhoold, was bits and pieces of the violence; a strange nostalgia.
References here: Xanadu (1980).