Författare: Leigh Brackett

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Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915 – 1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959) and The Long Goodbye (1973). She also worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before the film went into production. She was the first woman shortlisted for the Hugo Award.




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Philip K. Dick & H. B. Fyfe: Fantastic Stories Presents the Planet Stories Super Pack
Planet Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published between 1939 and 1955. It featured interplanetary adventures, both in space and on other planets, and managed to obtain work fr …
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Leigh Brackett: Black Amazon of Mars
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, h …
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Leigh Brackett: Black Amazon of Mars
Through all the long cold hours of the Norland night the Martian had not moved nor spoken. At dusk of the day before Eric John Stark had brought him into the ruined tower and laid him down, wrapped i …
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Leigh Brackett: Black Amazon of Mars
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 …
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Leigh Brackett: The Mercurian
Born of Earth parents. Raised on Mercury . Mercenary on Mars and Venus. Warrior of the Solar System.  ’For hours the hard-pressed beast had fled across the Martian desert with its dark …
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Leigh Brackett: A World Is Born
Mercury is a lush, hot world. Mel Grey and a group of pioneers and prisoners are working hard to make the planet habitable for man kind. But there are those who would have the world all for themselve …
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Philip K. Dick & Isaac Asimov: Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #1
The editors at www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com present Fantasy and Science Fiction from the Present, Past, and Future. The Cold Calculations by Michael A. Burstein, They Twinkled like Jewels …
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Leigh Brackett: Black Amazon of Mars
Female author Leigh Brackett was the Queen of Space Opera! In this thrilling tale, carrying out the last wishes of a comrade, mercenary Eric John Stark takes on the task of returning a stolen talisma …
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Leigh Brackett: Long Tomorrow
’No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America.’Thirtieth …
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Edwin L. Arnold & Leigh Brackett: Martian Megapack
This volume in the Megapack series assembles classic Martian science fiction, including the first 5 volumes of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom saga (A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mar …
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Leigh Leigh: A World is Born
The romantic, fictionalized solar system of Leigh Brackett’s works provides a lush, steamy world in Mercury, where Mel Gray is working to build a home for veterans of the Second Interplanetary War. B …
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Leigh Brackett: The Stellar Legion
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Fred A. Kummer Jr. & Leigh Brackett: PLANET STORIES [ Collection no. 1 – Winter 1940 / Spring 1941 ]
Strange adventures on other worlds – The universe of future centuries Stories: Beyond Light – (Planet Stories Winter 1940) The Stellar Legion – (Planet Stories Winter 1940) The War-Nymphs of Ve …
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Leigh Brackett & Raymond Van Houten: PLANET STORIES [ Collection no.3 ]
STRANGE ADVENTURES ON OTHER WORLDS – THE UNIVERSE OF FUTURE CENTURIES BLACK AMAZON OF MARS – (Planet Stories March 1951) THE DRAGON-QUEEN OF JUPITER – (Planet Stories Summer 1941) CHILD O …
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Leigh Brackett: Child of the Sun
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Brackett, Leigh: The Blue Behemoth
Shannon’s Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-town—to find that death stalked it from the jungle i …
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Hannes Bok & Leigh Brackett: PLANET STORIES [ Collection no.5 ]
A THRILLING PLANET NOVEL ALCATRAZ OF THE STARWAYS (by Albert de Pina and Henry Hasse) Venus was a world enslaved. And then, like an avenging angel bringing knowledge of a weapon so terrible it had be …
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Leigh Brackett: Citadel of Lost Ships
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Otis A. Kline & Robert Abernathy: PLANET STORIES [ Collection no.6 ]
A SMASHING PLANET NOVEL COLOSSUS OF CHAOS – (by Nelson S. Bond) From the Void it came, bom of lifeless space. It drew life from Terra itself, that it might slay those who peopled the earth. THREE OUT …
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Leigh Brackett & Clifford D. Simak: PLANET STORIES [ Collection no.7 ]
TWO THRILLING NOVELETS OF OTHER WORLDS MESSAGE FROM MARS ……. Clifford D. Simak The last of Earth’s pioneers stood on the rusty sands of Mars, his ship a total wreck —knowing his world …
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Leigh Brackett: Leigh Brackett: Golden Age Space Opera Tales
Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera. She was also a screenw …
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Leigh Brackett: Outpost on Io
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Leigh Brackett: Thralls of the Endless Night
The Ship held an ancient secret that meant life to the dying cast-aways of the void. Then Wes Kirk revealed the secret to his people’s enemies—and found that his betrayal meant the death of the girl …
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Leigh Brackett: No Good From A Corpse
**A hardboiled crime novel in the vein of Raymond Chandler** Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she&rsq …
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Leigh Brackett: Thralls of the Endless Night
The Ship held an ancient secret that meant life to the dying east-aways of the void. Then Wes Kirk revealed the secret to his people’s enemies—and found that his betrayal meant the death of the girl …
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Leigh Brackett: Terror Out of Space
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S. H. Marpel & Andre Norton: Andre Norton: Golden Age Space Opera Tales
Andre Alice Norton (February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005), science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction), was born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland, …
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Leigh Brackett: Leigh Brackett Super Pack
Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first …
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Leigh Brackett: The Stellar Legion
No one had ever escaped from Venus’ dread Stellar Legion. And, as Thekla the low-Martian learned, no one had ever betrayed it and—lived. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the …
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Leigh Brackett: Child of the Sun
Far beyond molten Mercury flashed the Patrol-pursued Falcon….Out to where black Vulcan whirled his hidden orbit, and a flame-auraed last child of Sol played his cosmic game. Leigh Brackett was the …
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Leigh Brackett: Outpost on Io
In a crystalline death lay the only release for those prisoners of that Ionian hell-outpost. Yet Mac Vickers and the men had to escape—for to remain meant the conquering of the Solar System by the in …
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Leigh Brackett: The Blue Behemoth
Shannon’s Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-town—to find that death stalked it from the jungle i …
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Leigh Brackett: Shannach: The Last
Even in this grip of alien horror a man could not throw away his lifetime goal . . . and not stand idly by as endless rows of alabaster, shapes seated in their chars of stone, thought-rules this garg …
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Leigh Brackett: The Ark of Mars
There are men in space again. The catastrophic words went out from Mars to damp Venus and frost–wracked Mercury; to the lunar colonies of Jupiter and Saturn. To all points of the system the warning …
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Leigh Brackett: Last Call from Sector 9G
Out there in the green star system; far beyond the confining grip of the Federation, moved the feared Bitter Star, for a thousand frigid years the dark and sinister manipulator of war-weary planets. …
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Leigh Brackett: So Pale, So Cold, So Fair
She was the last person in the world I expected to see. But she was there, in the moonlight, lying across the porch of my rented cabin. At her throat was a gleam of dim fire that even by moonlight yo …
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Leigh Brackett: The Road to Sinharat
The people of Mars were perverse. They did not want Earth’s proffer of rich land, much water, new power. They fought rehabilitation. And with them fought Carey, the Earthman who wanted only the secre …
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Leigh Brackett & S. H. Marpel: Queen of the Martian Catacombs Anthology (Golden Age Space Opera Tales)
Another riveting anthology in the Golden Age Space Opera Tales series… Gaunt giant and passionate beauty, they dragged their thirst-crazed way across the endless crimson sands in a terrible test of …
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Leigh Brackett: The Dragon Queen of Jupiter
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 undispu …
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Leigh Brackett: The Dancing Girl of Ganymede
She had come to life, but she was not human. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, an …
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Leigh Brackett & James M. Cain: Los Angeles Noir 2
“This entry, with its high-quality stories from such genre masters as Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain, outshines the typical all-original anthology.”—Publishers Weekly   In …
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Leigh Brackett: Thralls of the Endless Night
The Ship held an ancient secret that meant life to the dying east-aways of the void. Then Wes Kirk revealed the secret to his people’s enemiesand found that his betrayal meant the death of the girl h …
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Leigh Brackett: Child of the Sun
Far beyond molten Mercury flashed the Patrol-pursued Falcon….Out to where black Vulcan whirled his hidden orbit, and a flame-auraed last child of Sol played his cosmic game. Leigh Brackett was the …
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€1.16
Leigh Brackett: Last Call from Sector 9G
Out there in the green star system; far beyond the confining grip of the Federation, moved the feared Bitter Star, for a thousand frigid years the dark and sinister manipulator of war-weary planets. …
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€1.16
Leigh Brackett: Outpost on Io
In a crystalline death lay the only release for those prisoners of that Ionian hell-outpost. Yet Mac Vickers and the men had to escapefor to remain meant the conquering of the Solar System by the inh …
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€1.16
Leigh Brackett: Shannach: The Last
Even in this grip of alien horror a man could not throw away his lifetime goal . . . and not stand idly by as endless rows of alabaster, shapes seated in their chars of stone, thought-rules this garg …
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€1.16
Leigh Brackett: So Pale, So Cold, So Fair
She was the last person in the world I expected to see. But she was there, in the moonlight, lying across the porch of my rented cabin. At her throat was a gleam of dim fire that even by moonlight yo …
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€1.16
Leigh Brackett: Ark of Mars
There are men in space again. The catastrophic words went out from Mars to damp Venus and frost–wracked Mercury; to the lunar colonies of Jupiter and Saturn. To all points of the system the warning …
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€1.16
Leigh Brackett: Blue Behemoth
Shannon’s Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-townto find that death stalked it from the jungle in …
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€1.16
Leigh Brackett: Dancing Girl of Ganymede
She had come to life, but she was not human. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, an …
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€1.16
Leigh Brackett: Stellar Legion
No one had ever escaped from Venus’ dread Stellar Legion. And, as Thekla the low-Martian learned, no one had ever betrayed it andlived. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the …
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Leigh Brackett: Dragon Queen of Jupiter
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 undispu …
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Leigh Brackett: Road to Sinharat
The people of Mars were perverse. They did not want Earth’s proffer of rich land, much water, new power. They fought rehabilitation. And with them fought Carey, the Earthman who wanted only the secre …
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Leigh Brackett: A World is Born
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Leigh Brackett: Citadel of Lost Ships
It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell, outcast prey of the Coalition, entered its depths to seek haven for the Kraylens of Ve …
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Leigh Brackett: Lorelei of the Red Mist
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Leigh Brackett: The Jewel of Bas
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Leigh Brackett: Citadel of Lost Ships
It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell, outcast prey of the Coalition, entered its depths to seek haven for the Kraylens of Ve …
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Ray Bradbury & Robert F. Young: The 16th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 77 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories
’Here is the 16th volume of the Science Fiction MEGAPACK® series…mammoth collections of well-formatted books and stories assembled for your reading pleasure (and always bargain priced). This volume …
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Leigh Brackett & Ray Bradbury: Lorelei of the Red Mist
Hugh Starke had died, he was absolutely certain of that. He had not survived when his spaceship crashed as he desperately tried to escape the authorities after pulling off the greatest lone-wolf heis …
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Leigh Brackett: Citadel of Lost Ships
It was a Gypsy world, built of space flotsam, peopled with the few free races of the Solar System. Roy Campbell, outcast prey of the Coalition, entered its depths to seek haven for the Kraylens of Ve …
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Ray Bradbury & Leigh Brackett: Lorelei of the Red Mist
He died—and then awakened in a new body. He found himself on a world of bizarre loveliness, a powerful, rich man. He took pleasure in his turn of good luck … until he discovered that his new body w …
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Leigh Brackett: Amazing Stories Volume 23
Amazing Stories Volume 23 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three stories by Leigh Brackett: "Shannach — The La …
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Leigh Brackett: Amazing Stories Volume 24
Amazing Stories Volume 24 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five stories by Leigh Brackett: "Terror Out of Space …
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Leigh Brackett: Amazing Stories Volume 25
Amazing Stories Volume 25 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four stories by Leigh Brackett: "Outpost on Io" …
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Leigh Brackett: Amazing Stories Volume 26
Amazing Stories Volume 26 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three stories by Leigh Brackett: "Last Call From Sec …
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Leigh Brackett: Amazing Stories Volume 75
Amazing Stories Volume 75 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three stories by Leigh Brackett: "A World is Born&qu …
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Leigh Brackett: Out of the Sea
Webb Fallon, standing shoulder-deep in the cold water, stared in a temporary paralysis of shock. The thing simply couldn’t be. There was a snout armed with a wicked sword. That and the head behind it …
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Leigh Brackett: The Starmen
The Starmen follows the adventures of Matt Carse, a hard-drinking adventurer and thief, and Princess Aladoree, the daughter of the deposed ruler of a distant planet. Aladoree is seeking the aid of a …
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Leigh Brackett: The Leigh Brackett Science Fiction MEGAPACK®
The Leigh Brackett Science Fiction MEGAPACK® presents 13 classic science fiction works — 2 novels and 13 shorter stories — by an acclaimed master of the genre, dubbed the ’Queen of Space Opera’ by …
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Leigh Brackett: Moon That Vanished
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Leigh Brackett: The Moon That Vanished
They say that Venus once had a moon. It rode in the clouds like a disc of fire and the god who dwelt within it was supreme over all the other gods. He watched the surface of the planet and all that w …
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Leigh Brackett: Das lange Morgen
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 Vereinigt …
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Leigh Brackett: Schwelende Rebellion
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 …
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Leigh Brackett: Amazing Stories Volume 167
Amazing Stories Volume 167 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "The Road …
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Leigh Brackett: The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Leigh Brackett
The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Leigh Brackett This Complete Collection includes the following titles: ——– 1 – Black Amazon of Mars 2 – The Stellar Legion 3 – …
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Leigh Brackett: The Complete Works of Leigh Brackett
The Complete Works of Leigh Brackett This Complete Collection includes the following titles: ——– 1 – Black Amazon of Mars 2 – The Stellar Legion 3 – The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter 4 – Child of the …
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Leigh Brackett: Black Amazon of Mars
"Black Amazon of Mars" is a gripping science fiction novella written via Leigh Brackett, a prolific author recognized for her contributions to the style. This tale takes readers on an inter …
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