Download or read book The Reavers of Skaith written by Leigh Brackett and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poised to at last escape the treacherous planet of Skaith, the swordsman Eric John Stark falls victim to a grim betrayal that turns old allies into dogged enemies. Chased through dangerous jungles and across predator-infested seas, the fugitive warrior dodges death at every turn in Leigh Brackett's final science-fiction masterpiece. Talented enough to co-write The Big Sleep film with William Faulkner and imaginative enough to pen the original screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back, Leigh Brackett is a giant in the science-fiction field, and Eric John Stark is her finest character.
Download or read book The Ginger Star written by Leigh Brackett and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 universe. Raised as a savage on the hostile planet of Mercury and honed into a fearless warrior in the low canals of the Red Planet, Stark is one of science fiction's greatest adventurers and is Leigh Brackett's most famous character. In The Ginger Star, Simon Ashton, Stark's foster father, has been kidnapped by the Lords Protector, and only Stark can rescue him!
Download or read book As the Green Star Rises written by Lin Carter and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Green Star Rises is the fourth novel in the Green Star saga.
Download or read book The Dark World written by Henry Kuttner and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not as it seems in this shadowy mirror of the real world, and Bond discovers that a part of him feels more at home here than he ever has on Earth.
Download or read book Man Without a Tribe written by Leigh Brackett and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before she wrote the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back, Leigh Brackett had already established herself as the "Queen of the Space Opera." Her series of adventure stories featuring the interplanetary outlaw, Eric John Stark, were inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars. Stark, an orphan from Earth, is raised by the aboriginal inhabitants of Mercury, who give him the name N'Chaka, which means the "man without a tribe." This anthology compiles the three original Stark stories into a single volume: Queen Of The Martian Catacombs - Fleeing from Venus where he has been running guns, Eric John Stark comes to Mars to fight as a mercenary in a private war in the Martian Drylands. Black Amazon of Mars - In order to fulfill the dying wish of his companion, Stark travels to the Martian polar city of Kushat to return an ancient amulet to its original home. Enchantress Of Venus - After traveling to the planet Venus in an attempt to rescue a friend, Stark is taken prisoner beneath the shrouding veils of mist of the Red Sea.
Download or read book Shannach The Last written by Leigh Brackett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 their chars of stone, thought-rules this gargoyle planet from the dead blackness of deep Mercurian caverns. 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. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978.
Download or read book Eric John Stark written by Leigh Brackett and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Mercury and raised by native tribes there, he is hunted by the law, betrayed and wanted by warlords and may hold the fate of Mars in his hands. Leah Bracket's Eric Stark stories are some of the finest examples of mid-twentieth century romantic adventures in science fiction. She had this unique ability to inject a certain pathos and sensitivity into her characters and situations which made her books stand out within this sub-genre. Leigh Brackett (December 7, 1915 to March 18, 1978) was an influential writer during the Golden Age of science fiction and one of the pioneers establishing women as a serious force in the field. She has been referred to as the Queen of Science Fiction and her works include the classic The Long Tomorrow as well the Eric Stark books which are a prime example of the romantic adventures of the Golden era. Leigh was also a highly respected screenwriter and her credits include Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. In 1931 she married Edmond Hamilton, another early icon of the genre who died in 1977.
Download or read book The Immortals written by Jordanna Max Brodsky and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern-day "lively re-imagining of classical mythology" (Deborah Harkness), when a string of women are murdered in an ancient pagan ritual, Selene DiSilvia -- known by some as the goddess Artemis -- hears their cries for help and takes up her bow once more. Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself. The city sleeps. In the predawn calm, Selene DiSilva finds the body of a young woman washed ashore, gruesomely mutilated and wreathed in laurel. Her ancient rage returns, along with the memory of a promise she made long ago -- when her name was Artemis. Jordanna Max Brodsky's acclaimed debut sets Greek Gods against a modern Manhattan backdrop, creating an unputdownable blend of myth and mystery.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers written by Lee Server and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Download or read book Scottish Proverbs written by Andrew Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking for the Mahdi written by N. Lee Wood and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halton was a humanoid fabricant, created to serve as a bodyguard in the Middle East. Fay was as an all-too-human correspondent, assigned to deliver him to a country from which she had barely escaped with her sanity. She didn't know it was a setup...until it was too late. And the only one she could trust -- the only one who hadn't betrayed her -- was the android himself.
Download or read book No Good From A Corpse written by Leigh Douglass Brackett and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn’t believe that her boyfriend had killed her. Pursuing her own lonely trail, he found out just how easily jealousy and twisted rage could turn a human being into a monster of violence. Originally published in 1944, this is Leigh Brackett’s unputdownable pulp fiction debut novel.
Download or read book The Long Tomorrow written by Leigh Brackett and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A youth of the future finds a relic of the past, a radio, and it leads him to adventure.
Download or read book Story Telling Ballads written by Frances Jenkins Olcott and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 77 story-telling ballads and narrative poems -- romances, hero-tales, faery legends, and adventures of Knights and lovely Damsels. They sing of proud and wicket folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of Laidley Worms, Witches, Mermaids, and more!
Download or read book Lorelei of the Red Mist written by Leigh Brackett and published by Start Classics. This book was released on 2024-05-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 greatest lone-wolf heist in history. And then he awakened in a new body to find himself a powerful rich man on a world of bizarre loveliness. He was pleased by his good luck . . . until he discovered that his new body was hated by everyone on this strange and lovely planet and that his soul was owned by Rann devil-goddess of Falga who was using him for her own gain. A grand adventure from the golden age of pulps by two masters of the genre.
Download or read book A Collection of Gaelic Proverbs and Familiar Phrases written by Alexander Nicolson and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantasy written by John Clute and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
