- Paperback: 672 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz (14 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575076895
- ISBN-13: 978-0575076891
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 593,243 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of the best stories by one of fantasy and science fiction's most evocative writers, including Sea Kings of Mars, which combines high adventure with a strongly romantic vision of an ancient, sea-girt Martian civilisation.
About the Author
Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was an accomplished and prolific writer of fantasy and SF, as well as a Hollywood screen writer (she received a posthumous Oscar for the script for The Empire Strikes Back). She was married to the SF writer Edmond Hamilton.
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One of the greatest writers of science fantasy,
This review is from: Sea-Kings Of Mars And Other Worldly Stories (Fantasy Masterworks) (Paperback)
Leigh Brackett is well known as the main writer on Howard Hawks's classic Bogart movie THE BIG SLEEP. She also wrote RIO BRAVO and several more Hawks movies, as well as doing outstanding scripts for others. She wrote the first script for The Empire Strikes Back, considered a far superior piece of work than the version eventually filmed. But she was also one of the most influential science fantasy writers of the 40s and 50s, inspiring and eventually collaborating with the young Ray Bradbury. Her stories of Eric John Stark, some of which appear in this collection, are perhaps the best examples you can find in the sf pulps of her day, appearing in the likes of PLANET STORIES, STARTLING STORIES and THRILLING WONDER STORIES. I know they were a huge influence on my own early science fantasy tales. Through Bradbury, she also influenced J.G.Ballard in such sequences as his Vermilion Sands stories. As such she can be seen as a kind of godmother to the so-called 'New Wave'. These are fast-paced, evocative tales of a Mars where lone adventurers ride strange beasts over dead sea-bottoms, seeking the secrets of ancient races who may be largely forgotten but are not necessarily dead. For sheer exotic storytelling in prose which has something in common with Hammett and Chandler, you can't beat Leigh Brackett. If you like M.John Harrison's and China Mieville's science fantasy, you'll enjoy these stories just as much. I can't say how pleased I am to see Brackett back in print.
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Superb Science Fantasy,
By Kastaris (Devon, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sea-Kings Of Mars And Other Worldly Stories (Fantasy Masterworks) (Paperback)
Wow, what a collection of stories! A fantastic, accessible, read. This collection was a real "page turner", and certainly well worth a look if you want to try something different. Lets face it, if Michael Moorcock gives it 5 stars why wouldn't you buy it?
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Fascinating evocative stories from a bygone era,
By Ventura Angelo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sea-Kings Of Mars And Other Worldly Stories (Fantasy Masterworks) (Paperback)
leigh Brackett is one of a kind writer. Her melancholic Mars and luscious Venus are magnificent examples of science fiction worldbuilding, very original and with a sense of wonder and exotic mystery at par with E.R. Burroughs and Jack vance. Who cares if her Mercury, Mars, Venus, are not asthose we now know? Read her tales as alternare Reality, even as she makes the entire solar system improbably inhabited by humanoids. IMO the best story is "The Sword of Rhiannon", when the protagonist plunges from modern drying Mars to the martian oceans of the past, a past far from idyllic, where he shall confront a Martian Oromethean figure.
A must read for the lovers of Golden age science fiction! |
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