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Leigh Brackett
Grimly Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes…
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Far beyond molten Mercury flashed the Patrol-pursued Falcon....Out to where black Vulcan whirled his hidden orbit and a flame-auraed last child of Sol played his cosmic game.Leigh Brackett was the…
It was a Gypsy world built of space flotsam peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell outcast prey of the Coalition entered its depths to…
Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood…
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Originally published as by the actor George Sanders, this domestic mystery by science fiction author Leigh Brackett is the story of a rich heel who comes back to get even…
Out there in the green star system; far beyond the confining grip of the Federation, moved the feared Bitter Star, for a thousand frigid years the dark and sinister manipulator…
The Ship held an ancient secret that meant life to the dying east-aways of the void. Then Wes Kirk revealed the secret to his people’s enemies-and found that his betrayal…
No one had ever escaped from Venus’ dread Stellar Legion. And, as Thekla the low-Martian learned, no one had ever betrayed it and-lived. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of…
More feared than the deadly green snakes, the hideous red beetles of that outpost of Earth Empire, was the winged dragon-queen of Jupiter and her white Legions of Doom. Leigh…
Far beyond molten Mercury flashed the Patrol-pursued Falcon….Out to where black Vulcan whirled his hidden orbit, and a flame-auraed last child of Sol played his cosmic game. Leigh Brackett was…
In a crystalline death lay the only release for those prisoners of that Ionian hell-outpost. Yet MacVickers and the men had to escape-for to remain meant the conquering of the…
It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell, outcast prey of the Coalition, entered its depths to…
Shannon’s Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-town-to find that death stalked it…
She had come to life, but she was not human. If Harrah had seen her before he would not have forgotten. He thought that no man could ever forget her…
She had come to life, but she was not human. If Harrah had seen her before he would not have forgotten. He thought that no man could ever forget her.
Danger Awaits in the Far North! Long ago, an ancient evil was sealed away in the northern wastes of Mars by the legendary hero, Ban Cruach. A powerful talisman of…
Even in this grip of alien horror a man could not throw away his lifetime goal … and not stand idly by as endless rows of alabaster, shapes seated in…
Hugh Starke had died, he was absolutely certain of that. He had not survived when his spaceship crashed as he desperately tried to escape the authorities after pulling off the…
This is the novel that gave Leigh Brackett the job of co-scriptwriter with William Faulkner for the screenplay of Chandler’s The Big Sleep and many subsequent Howard Hawks movies. This…
Eric John Stark thinks that he is at long last safe on a world finally set free. But he is betrayed and left to fend for himself on a savage…
Eric John Stark, Outlaw of Mars, travels beyond the solar system for exciting science fantasy adventures on the planet of Skaith, a lawless sphere at the edge of the known…
Shannach-The Last, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions…
Terror Out of Space, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at…
Leigh Brackett’s most famous character, Eric John Stark, grew up savage on hostile Mercury before transforming into a powerful warrior on the Red Planet of Mars. Stark returns for another…
Despite beginning in the same place and with the same situation, Black Amazon of Mars and People of the Talisman are two different stories on a similar premise, with occasionally…
Mars is a dying old world, full of evil tyrants and decaying cities where crime and malevolence run rampant.
Eric Stark is an outlaw in this savage world. Orphaned on…
They say that Venus once had a moon. It rode in the clouds like a disc of fire and the god who dwelt within it was supreme over all the…
A World Is Born originally appeared in Comet magazine, July 1941. It takes place on the Mercurian frontier where a small group of volunteers, prisoners from a previous war, struggle…
Mercury is a lush, hot world. Mel Grey and a group of pioneers and prisoners are working hard to make the planet habitable for man kind. But there are those…
