The Best of Leigh Brackett by Leigh Brackett

Titles included ‘The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter’ (AKA ‘The Dragon-Queen of Venus’), ‘Sea-Kings of Mars’ and ‘Enchantress of Venus’, among many others.

Much of her output could be described as “planetary romance”, stories in which the planets of the solar system – Earth excluded – hosted the dying remains of ancient civilisations. And throughout the 1940s and 1950s, she churned out dozens of science fiction stories, most published in Planet Stories, and a handful of novels. But back in the day, she was almost science fiction royalty, published in many magazines, a collaborator with Ray Bradbury, and married to Edmond Hamilton. These days, it’s likely Brackett is better known as the screenwriter of The Empires Strikes Back (and The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, The Long Goodbye and others). 1977, Philippa Grove-Stephensen in Paperback Parlour, April 1978, and Brian Stableford in Vector 90, 1978.The Best of Leigh Brackett, Leigh Brackett (1986) The book was reviewed by Algis Budrys in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec. 'The Queer Ones' (from Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Mar.'The Tweener' (from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb.'Shannach - The Last' (from Planet Stories, Nov.'The Last Days of Shandakor' (from Startling Stories, Apr.'The Woman from Altair' (from Startling Stories, Jul.

' Enchantress of Venus' (from Planet Stories, Fall 1949).

'The Moon That Vanished' (from Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct.

'The Veil of Astellar' (from Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spring 1944).

'The Vanishing Venusians' (from Planet Stories, Spring 1945).

'The Jewel of Bas' (from Planet Stories, Spring 1944).

'Story-Teller of Many Worlds' ( Edmond Hamilton).

The book contains ten short works of fiction with an afterword and two addenda by the author, together with an introduction by editor Edmond Hamilton and a map of Brackett's fictional version of Mars with an associated piece by Margaret Howes. The book has been translated into German. It was first published in hardcover by Nelson Doubleday in July 1977 and in paperback by Ballantine Books in September of the same year as a volume in its Classic Library of Science Fiction.Ī second hardcover edition was issued by Garland Publishing in March 1983, and Del Rey/Ballantine reprinted the paperback edition in June 1986. The Best of Leigh Brackett is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Leigh Brackett, edited by Edmond Hamilton.

The Best of Leigh Brackett by Leigh Brackett