The internet is funny.
The internet is funny. I was looking for some pulpy art for a project I'm working on and found this cover. I thought it was totally badass. Black Amazon of Mars. Awesome. Then I saw the author's name: Leigh Brackett. That sounded familiar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Brackett
Holy shit, she was one of the screenwriters for Empire Strikes Back (or not really, if Wikipedia is correct) and The Big Sleep (with William Faulkner!).
Anyway, I was in the mood for some planetary romance anyway, so I went to BN.com and picked up an ebook of some of her sci-fi stuff and just a few pages in we've got a human mercenary who was raised by natives of Mercury who is anti-colonial because miners killed his tribe, wanted by Earth for sabotaging corporate interests on Venus and running guns to the natives, and is now undercover on Mars trying to prevent genocide. Holy shit, this is awesome.
Anyway, now you know about Leigh Brackett too.
Paizo reprinted a bunch of her stuff in their (now on hiatus) Planet Stories series. They bought the name rights and used it to get a bunch of classic stuff in print. I should track down the rest for my collection.
ReplyDeleteI saw those when I was searching. You can get a bunch of the same stories as Paizo republished for just a couple bucks instead of $13 if you go for ebooks.
ReplyDeleteI have an iPhone, which I can't seem to read long things on. So I tend to stick with actual books. You can also find them in used bookstores if you hunt around.
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