Short Reviews will return next week with James MacCreigh’s Let The Ants Try!
You guys know how much I love Leigh Brackett and think that everyone really ought to be reading her.
So much so that I dropped some hefty coin in creating an all-new, fully illustrated edition of her Eric John Stark Planet Stories.
Well, it’s the 70th Anniversary of Queen of the Martian Catacombs, which came out in Planet Stories Magazine Summer 1949, and the first of my Illustrated Stark books are starting to come out on Amazon, and will be releasing over the summer.
To get hyped, be sure to check out some of my classic reviews of Leigh Brackett shorts here at Castalia House!
Short Reviews – Queen of the Martian Catacombs, by Leigh Brackett
Thanks for getting these stories back in print. Everyone SHOULD be reading Leigh Brackett.
Hail the Queen of Sword & Planet!!!
“Everyone SHOULD be reading Leigh Brackett.” I’ll second that motion!
One point I like to make about Leigh Brackett’s work is that when she brought back Stark (in my humble opinion her greatest creation) in the 1970s and sent him interstellar in the Skaith trilogy she proved she was still at the top of her game. A rare achievement for an author returning to a character decades later. Who else could have given us a line like: “I am N’Chaka! I do not die…I kill!” Truly she was the Queen of Sword and Planet.
How do you collect Leigh Brackett these days? I want to read them on paper. I have the 2 Stark trilogies but how do I get more Brackett in book form? I’m having a hard time knowing what books are worth buying and an even harder time finding them.