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Loading... The Secret of Sinharat/People of the Talisman (original 1964; edition 1964)by Leigh Brackett
Work InformationThe Secret of Sinharat/People of the Talisman (Ace Double M-101) by Leigh Brackett (1964)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. F/SF Leigh Brackett - [People of the Talisman] A science fiction fantasy novel by female science fiction writer Leigh Brackett: one of the few women writing in the so-called golden age of science fiction. It appears in an Ace double edition along with The Secret of Sinharat published in 1964. However People of the Talisman was adapted from Brackett's earlier story published in 1951 Black Amazon of Mars which appeared in the pulp magazine Planet Stories. Planet Stories has been described as the the epitome of Pulp science fiction. It was a magazine whose garish covers promised extravagantly melodramatic interplanetary stories. Leigh Brackett is more widely known as a film screenwriter, being credited with William Faulkner and Jules Furthman for the film The Big Sleep. Brackett took a long break from screenwriting and from 1948-1955 she wrote many of her science fiction adventure stories for the pulp fiction market. Black Amazon of Mars is a typical example and proves to be a well written adventure story that builds to an exciting climax. It features the Tarzan like hero; Eric John Stark who is well matched by Ciaran the Black Amazon who leads a gathering of northern chieftains on Mars again the city of Kushat. Stark has in his possession a mysterious Talisman of crystal that seems to contain the voices of an alien species. The crystal is believed to protect the city from invasion and Stark finds himself organising the city against the tribesman from the north. The adventure story with its science fiction ending is what this novel is all about and characters are set in motion to guide the story through to its ending. It all works well enough and provided me with an afternoon's entertainment laying out on my sun-bed under the shade of an oak tree. It's July; its hot in South West France and I don't have a swimming pool, but the oak tree is magnificent and doesn't require any maintenance. 3 stars of its genre. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesEric John Stark (2, 1) Belongs to Publisher SeriesAce Double (M-101) Ace Double Novels (M-101) Ace Double SF (M-101)
Mars as old, tried, and steeped in every evil of a dying world. There, to the sinful cities of the low canals, came Eric John Stark, adventurer, roisterer, and outlaw from Earth. Among then-wasted ruins of the deserts, the tribes were losing something beyond their utmost dreams of loot and ravage. To such peril, inevitably, Stark was drawn. Who else could bear the talisman? What other war leader could the false messiah of the tribes summons? But Eric John Stark was more than he seemed--more, in fact, than he knew. No library descriptions found.
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