Leigh Brackett

Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three stories by Leigh Brackett: "Last Call From Sector 9G", "The Beast-Jewel Of Mars", and "Enchantress of Venus".

There are men in space again. The catastrophic words went out from Mars to damp Venus and frost-wracked Mercury; to the lunar colonies of Jupiter and Saturn. To all points of the system the warning was screamed: Halt those fleeing star-pilgrims... those space-sons of the Ark of Mars. 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...

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 of war-weary planets. 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...

This gore drenched story finds Eric Stark, the fierce and barely civilized warrior raised on Mercury struggling to bring a dying Martian friend back to his home city in the North of Mars before he passes away. Unfortunately his friend does die on the way and lays a most unwanted last request on Stark before the end; to bring a precious stolen talisman back to the city. The journey there introduces the intimidating Black Amazon of Mars. "Grimly Eric...

Renowned science fiction writer Leigh Douglass Brackett broke new ground as a pioneering female author in the traditionally male-dominated genre. In addition to producing a large number of hard-boiled detective tales, Brackett also wrote dozens of science fiction novels and short stories, and later went on to work on screenplays for movies such as The Empire Strikes Back. The tale "A World is Born" is one of Brackett's most popular science fiction...

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...

L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with the woman's older sister.

Collection includes : Star Wars - Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999) (PG) ; Star Wars - Episode II Attack Of The Clones (2002) (PG) ; Star Wars - Episode III Revenge Of The Sith (2005) (PG-13) ; Star Wars - A New Hope (1977) (PG) ; Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (PG) ; and Star Wars - Return Of The Jedi (1983) (PG).

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...

Planet Stories was one of the better known Golden Age science fiction magazines. It was in its pages that Philip K. Dick first appeared. Planet Stories specialized in Space Opera and Sword and Sorcery fiction. Collected here in this massive edition are 19 stories from its pages totaling more than five hundred pages. If you enjoyed this book, you'll want to search on "Positronic Super Pack" and check out all our other Super Packs! Included here are: Phantom...