Bücher von Leigh Brackett

Mars is a dying old world, full of evil tyrants and decaying cities where crime and malevolence run rampant.Eric Stark is an outlaw in this savage world. Orphaned on Mercury and raised by native tribes there, he is hunted by the law, betrayed an

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Die Menschheit hat die Planeten unseres Sonnensystems besiedelt, aber Krieg und Armut sind deshalb längst nicht überwunden. Die irdische Zentralregierung herrscht mit harter Hand über die Außenwelten. Doch unter der Oberfläche schwelt die Rebellion. Eric John Stark ist ein Außenseiter, aufgewachsen unter den Ureinwohnern der lebensfeindlichen Welt des Merkur, die an der Schwelle zwischen Mensch und Tier stehen. Er befindet sich auf der Flucht vor dem Gesetz, weil er Rebellen auf der Venus mit Waffen versorgt hat. Dabei verschlägt es ihn auf den Mars, wo das uralte Vermächtnis einer fremden Zivilisation schlummert. Wer sich seiner bedient, spielt mit Kräften, an die der Mensch nicht rühren sollte ... Drei Space-Opera-Abenteuer aus der großen Zeit der Pulp-Magazine, in denen Leigh Brackett beweist, dass es bereits damals möglich war, Klischees zu hinterfragen und die Erwartungen der Leser:innen zu unterlaufen.

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Len Colter und sein Vetter Esau wachsen in einer Welt auf, die sich von der unseren grundlegend unterscheidet: Nach einem Atomkrieg, der sämtliche Städte zerstörte, wurde die Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten um einen Zusatzartikel erweitert, der es den Menschen nur noch gestattet, in kleinen Dörfern zusammenzuleben. Das ganze Land ist von religiöser Demut geprägt und von einfachsten agrarischen Verhältnissen. Die beiden jungen Burschen wollen sich damit jedoch nicht zufriedengeben. Nachdem Len und Esau auf ein technisches Wunderwerk stoßen, das ihnen ein anderes Leben verspricht, machen sie sich auf die Suche nach dem geheimnisvollen, kulturell hochentwickelten »Bartorstown« - und entdecken eine Welt, in der im Ringen mit der Vergangenheit über die Zukunft entschieden wird. Ein in seiner pastoralen Schlichtheit überwältigender Roman, der uns, bei aller Ambivalenz, vor Augen führt, was wirklich wichtig ist.

More feared than the deadly green snakes, the hideous red beetles of that outpost of Earth Empire, was the winged dragon-queen of Jupiter and her white Legions of Doom.Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first woman 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 death in 1978.

Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. Tom Ward, working beside him, glanced at Gray's Indianesque profile, the youth of it hardened by war and the hells of the Eros prison blocks.A quick flash of satisfaction crossed Ward's dark eyes. Then he grinned and said mockingly."Hell of a place to spend the rest of your life, ain't it?"Mel Gray stared with slitted blue eyes down the valley. The huge sun of Mercury seared his naked body. Sweat channeled the dust on his skin. His throat ached with thirst. And the bitter landscape mocked him more than Wade's dark face."The rest of my life," he repeated softly. "The rest of my life!"He was twenty-eight.Wade spat in the damp black earth. "You ought to be glad -- helping the unfortunate, building a haven for the derelict. . . ."

"Queen of the Martian Catacombs" marks the debut of one of Leigh Brackett's most iconic characters: Eric John Stark: orphan child raised on Mercury, who becomes a mercenary, fighting injustices across the solar system. Eric John Stark is hunted by Earth police in the Martian desert. Simon Ashton is with them and makes a deal with Stark to act as his agent in preventing a holy war. An unscrupulous ruler of a Martian Low-Canal city is partnering with a barbarian chief, Kynon, to plunder half the planet. Specialist mercenaries and criminals are coming from all over the solar system to join up. When Stark reaches the city of Valkis, he witnesses a ritual that reveals deception at the highest levels. The journey to the ancient ruins of Sinharat is beset with treachery and sandstorms, leading to a final confrontation with the secret masters of Mars.This version of 'Queen of the Martian Catacombs,' by Leigh Brackett, was originally published in Planet Stories, 1949, later expanded into 'The Secret of Sinharat'.

"Enchantress of Venus" continues the planetary adventures of mercenary Eric John Stark, one of Leigh Brackett's most iconic creations. Eric John Stark arrives on Venus in search of his friend, Halvi. Approaching the town of Shuruun he is ambushed & falls overboard, and eventually makes his way to the town. But there is something mysterious happening in Shruun, and it seems the Lhari-the elite rulers & slavemasters of the town-are at the center of it. Can Stark find his friend and save the townsfolk, while preventing the rulers from unearthing dangers from Venus' ancient past? It will take all his abilities to incite a successful rebellion when the very townsfolk consider him untrustworthy.

GRIMLY Eric John Stark slogged toward that ancient Martian city-with every step he cursed the talisman of Ban Cruach that flamed in his blood-stained belt. Behind him screamed the hordes of Ciaran, hungering for that magic jewel-ahead lay the dread abode of the Ice Creatures-at his side stalked the whispering spectre of Ban Cruach, urging him on to a battle Stark knew he must lose!Stark is taking a dying friend, Camar the Thief, back to his native city in the north of the planet. Just before his death Camar entrusts Stark with a talisman he had stolen, wanting him to return it. Soon, Stark is ambushed by bandits and presented to their leader, the warrior Ciaran. Joining up with Ciaran's band, Stark embarks on adventures and battles-through cities under siege and conflicts with strange aliens-that will decide the ultimate fate of the talisman and Camar's homeland.

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