Lorelei of the Red Mist
by Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury
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This, reportedly, wasn’t a collaboration in the ordinary sense; instead Brackett started writing the story, and upon finding she didn’t have time to finish it, handed it over to Bradbury, who finished it. He evidently did so quite seamlessly, because if I’d been told this was all Brackett’s work I’d seen no reason to doubt it.
The story concerns a Terran fugitive - called Hugh Starke, not to be confused with Brackett’s better-known recurring protagonist Eric John Stark - who finds himself involuntarily drawn into a local war on a backwards part of Venus. Action-packed planetary romance in the typical Brackett manner, I found it quite enjoyable.
The story concerns a Terran fugitive - called Hugh Starke, not to be confused with Brackett’s better-known recurring protagonist Eric John Stark - who finds himself involuntarily drawn into a local war on a backwards part of Venus. Action-packed planetary romance in the typical Brackett manner, I found it quite enjoyable.
I thought the first half of this (Brackett's contribution) was quite good in a surreal and quasi-Byronic way, but the second half (a young Bradbury's contribution) felt like a typical golden age “adolescent fantasy in space” story.
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Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 22, 1920. At the age of fifteen, he started submitting short stories to national magazines. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 600 stories, poems, essays, plays, films, television plays, radio, music, and comic books. His books include The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, The show more Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Bradbury Speaks. He won numerous awards for his works including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1977, the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation. He wrote the screen play for John Huston's classic film adaptation of Moby Dick, and was nominated for an Academy Award. He adapted 65 of his stories for television's The Ray Bradbury Theater, and won an Emmy for his teleplay of The Halloween Tree. The film The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit was written by Ray Bradbury and was based on his story The Magic White Suit. He was the idea consultant and wrote the basic scenario for the United States pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair, as well as being an imagineer for Walt Disney Enterprises, where he designed the Spaceship Earth exhibition at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center. He died after a long illness on June 5, 2012 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- This is a short story. It should NOT be combined with the Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances collection from Haffner.
Confusingly there is a Spanish-language translation as "Tres por infinito" which is the ti... (show all)tle of the anthology "Three Times Infinity" in which "Lorelei of the Red Mist" was included.
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