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Leigh Brackett Books In Order

Eric John Stark Books In Order

  1. The Secret of Sinharat (1964)
  2. The Ginger Star (1974)
  3. The Hounds of Skaith (1974)
  4. The Reavers of Skaith (1976)
  5. Outlaw of Mars (1982)

Novels

  1. No Good From a Corpse (1943)
  2. Stranger at Home (1947)
  3. Shadow over Mars (1951)
  4. The Starmen (1952)
  5. The Sword of Rhiannon (1953)
  6. The Big Jump (1955)
  7. The Long Tomorrow (1955)
  8. The Tiger Among Us (1957)
  9. Alpha Centauri – or Die! (1963)
  10. Follow the Free Wind (1963)
  11. The Coming of the Terrans (1967)

Omnibus

  1. Nemesis from Terra / Battle for the Stars (1989)
  2. Divide and Rule / The Sword of Rhiannon (1990)
  3. Thieves’ Carnival / The Jewel of Bas (1990)

Collections

  1. The Halfling (1973)
  2. The Best of Leigh Brackett (1977)
  3. Stark and the Star Kings (2005)
  4. Lorelei of the Red Mist (2007)
  5. Beyond the Moons of Fomalhaut (2010)
  6. Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 5 (2013)

Chapbooks

  1. Sea Kings of Mars (2005)

Novellas

  1. The Stellar Legion (1940)
  2. The Dragon Queen of Jupiter (1941)
  3. Outpost on Io (1942)
  4. Citadel of Lost Ships (1943)
  5. Thralls of the Endless Night (1943)
  6. Terror Out of Space (1944)

Anthologies edited

  1. Best of Planet Stories 1 (1974)

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Leigh Brackett Books Overview

The Secret of Sinharat

Enter Eric John Stark, adventurer, rebel, wildman. Raised on the sun soaked, savage world of Mercury, Stark lives among the people of the civilized solar system, but his veneer of calm masks a warrior’s spirit. In the murderous Martian Drylands the greatest criminals in the galaxy hatch a conspiracy of red revolution. Stark’s involvement leads to the forgotten ruins of the Martian Low Canals, an unlikely romance and a secret so potent it could shake the Red Planet to its core.

The Ginger Star

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!

The Hounds of Skaith

Eric John Stark rides again! Leigh Brackett’s unforgettable science fantasy hero of The Secret of Sinharat and The Ginger Star cuts a red swath across the brutal planet Skaith Having killed the king dog Flay in his quest to save an old friend and mentor, Stark now wanders the Worldheart in the company of nine ferocious canines that respond to his every command. Ruling The Hounds of Skaith means tapping into the savagery of Stark’s own mysterious past, and even a moment’s hesitation could turn the pack against him!

The Reavers of Skaith

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.

No Good From a Corpse

Legendary SciFi writer Leigh Brackett who won a posthumous award for the screenplay to Empire Strikes Back, began her career as a writer trying to reach the pages of Black Mask. She was never successful in this, but her Chandler influenced novel No Good From a Corpse was so impressive in its hard boiled dialogue that Howard Hawks insisted its author, unseen, be brought in to work on the screenplay adaption of The Big Sleep together with a fella by the name of Faulkner. Though Hawks was stunned to discover that Leigh was a woman, she got the job, and worked on what was probably the best film adaptation of a Chandler novel. No Good From a Corpse offers hard boiled private eye Ed Clive, who gets involved with a dead girl, and suspects every one of her boyfriends an ex husband, a playboy, a blackmailer and a brute. There’s a woman suspect as well, and a long chase through Sunset Strip.

Stranger at Home

Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang someone! A book written to cash in on the success of film actor George Sanders, and ghost written by Leigh Brackett, whom the supposed author claims never to have met. Stranger at Home is the story of Mike Vickers, back home from the dead, and trying to find out who among his family tried to get him out of the way in the first place.

The Sword of Rhiannon

Greed pulls the archaeologist Matt Carse into the forgotten tomb of the Martian god Rhiannon and plunges the unlikely hero into the Red Planet’s fantastic past, when vast oceans covered the land and the legendary Sea Kings ruled from terraced palaces of decadence and delight. 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 The Sword of Rhiannon is one of her most popular adventure tales.

The Big Jump

What awaits us out in space? New star drive engines promise to open up the galaxy to human kind. But the first ship to use the engines disappears and a sole survivor returns…
alone and dying of some strange type of radiation. No one can figure out what has happened to the ship or the crew. Nor does anyone know what happens to a ship travelling using star drive technology. Does some unknown horror await us out there? The only way to find out is to go out again. And Arch Comyn is determined to be the one to solve the mystery. But is he, and the rest of mankind, ready for whatever awaits us beyond The Big Jump?

The Long Tomorrow

One of the original novels of post nuclear holocaust America, The Long Tomorrow is considered by many to be one of the finest science fiction novels ever written on the subject. The story has inspired generations of new writers and is still as mesmerizing today as when it was originally written. Len and Esau are young cousins living decades after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization as we know. The rulers of the post war community have forbidden the existence of large towns and consider technology evil. However Len and Esau long for more than their simple agrarian existence. Rumors of mythical Bartorstown, perhaps the last city in existence, encourage the boys to embark on a journey of discovery and adventure that will call into question not only firmly held beliefs, but the boys’ own personal convictions.

Stark and the Star Kings

THE STAR KINGS 200,000 years from now the universe is divided into stellar kingdoms. John Gordon is torn from his 20th Century humdrum into otherworldly intrigue as he exchanges bodies with Prince Zarth Arn, heir to the Kingdom of Fomalhaut. Shorr Kan, Lord of the Dark Worlds, schemes to kill Zarth Arn and overthrow the alliance of the Star Kings. Gordon reluctantly assumes the role of Zarth Arn to prevent Shorr Kan from throwing the entire universe into interstellar anarchy! ERIC JOHN STARK Forged in the hellish heat of Mercury and tempered on the desert sands of Mars, Eric John Stark battles the forces of evil and tyranny, selling his sword arm to defend the cause of justice among worlds of sin and decay. Stark and the Star Kings In their only formal collaboration, Hamilton’s Star Kings and Brackett s Eric John Stark meet to confront a peril of unending doom. Can Stark persuade the Star Kings to put aside their political games long enough to defeat this threat to the whole universe? For the first time, admirers of both authors can enjoy this long coming story. CONTENTS THE STAR KINGS by Edmond Hamilton ‘Queen of the Martian Catacombs’ by Leigh Brackett ‘Enchantress of Venus’ by Leigh Brackett ‘Black Amazon of Mars’ by Leigh Brackett RETURN TO THE STARS by Edmond Hamilton ‘Stark and the Star Kings‘ by Edmond Hamilton and Leigh Brackett

Lorelei of the Red Mist

Picking up where Martian Quest: The Early Brackett left off, this volume collects 12 more tales of strange adventures on other worlds from the undisputed ‘Queen of Space Opera.’ Drawn from Planet Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories pulp magazines, this tome revels in the 1946 titular collaboration with Ray Bradbury who also contributes an original poem about Leigh Brackett as well as an essay about meeting & working with Brackett. Harry Turtledove, the modern master of ‘alternate history’ provides the introduction and the book is adorned with Frank Kelly Freas’ vintage illustrations from the 1953 reprint of ‘Lorelei of the Red Mist.’ In a review of Martian Quest: The Early Brackett, Paul di Filippo says ‘Plainly, Brackett was growing with every story she wrote, not yet 30 years old by the volume’s end, with the best yet to come.’ Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances is where some of that ‘best’ can found.

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