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Black Amazon of Mars

by Leigh Brackett

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Leigh Brackett may be best known for her screenplay for "The Empire Strikes Back," but her lush tales of interplanetary adventures were thrilling readers long before "Star Wars." Collected here are the short novel "Black Amazon of Mars" (the final magazine appearance of her hero, Eric John Stark), as well as "A World Is Born" and "Child of the Sun."… (more)
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    The Best of C. L. Moore by C. L. Moore (jillmwo)
    jillmwo: Similar descriptive writing; space opera heroes, Eric John Stark and Northwest Smith are similar in outlook.
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I had forgotten how much I loved S&S before starting to read Brackett this week. Another terrific John Stark novel from Brackett, I've been on a Sword and Sorcery bender this past week and this story stands up to her others quite well, I particular liked the siege and the lead up to the battle. ( )
  kevn57 | Dec 8, 2021 |
A pretty good story, great looking book. "People of the Talisman" is a rewrite of this story, longer, similar beginning, totally different ending. ( )
  unclebob53703 | Jun 12, 2015 |
Ah, the old pulps. :-) We have our Mighty Hero who binds himself by a promise to a dying friend, and then dares all and endures all in fulfillment of it (and to save his world as he knows it). Plus a pretty love interest to keep us occupied until the real love interest is revealed (and to be sad and wise about him near the end). The eponymous 'Amazon' is pretty cool but it's probably no real spoiler that it's Our Mighty Hero who wins the day. ( )
  zeborah | Jun 5, 2013 |
Thoroughly enjoyable but not entirely predictable space opera. Action-oriented but with sufficient descriptive passages to persuade the reader that you are on a different world. This is really a novella, quickly read over the course of a weekend, with two short stories fleshing out the rest of the book. ( )
  jillmwo | Jun 21, 2010 |
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Leigh Brackett may be best known for her screenplay for "The Empire Strikes Back," but her lush tales of interplanetary adventures were thrilling readers long before "Star Wars." Collected here are the short novel "Black Amazon of Mars" (the final magazine appearance of her hero, Eric John Stark), as well as "A World Is Born" and "Child of the Sun."

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