Brackett - Leigh

Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915-1978)

No Good From a Corpse – 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.

Darkside – From Mercury to Ganymede, life wants to survive. In whatever form it takes, in whatever form it is made in, human, alien, demi-god, android, life wants to survive. Five stories of some of the life-forms in Leigh Brackett’s universe.

Lost Ships – Three classic science fiction novelettes by Leigh Brackett, known as the Queen of Space Opera. Outpost on Io, The Citadel Of Lost Ships, Last Call For Sector 9G

A thief makes the biggest score of all time and then dies trying to escape. His dying mind is transferred into the body of a warrior who is being used by a sorceress to destroy her enemies.

Eric John Stark was born on Mercury to miners who died in a cave-in. He was brought up by Mercurian aborigines and given the name N’Chaka, meaning “the man without a tribe”. Stark grew up to become a wanderer, a warrior, a rebel, and ultimately a legend.

Moon of the Unforgotten – Two Captain Future novelettes by Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977)

Two classic novelettes of interstellar love and betrayal, and one story about simple betrayal by Leigh Brackett (1915-1978).

Children of the Sun – Two Captain Future Novelets by Edmond Hamilton
These two stories by Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977), The Harpers of Titan and Children of the Sun are a particularly beautiful and haunting rumination about the nature of death, life, and eternal life.

The Shadows and Other Stories by Leigh Brackett
The Shadows (1952), Quest of the Starhope (1949), RUNAWAY (1954)