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mabusecast's review
4.0
Somewhere on the Venn diagram of Robert E Howard's "Conan the Barbarian", Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars", and Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" is Leigh Brackett's set of pulp sci-fi stories featuring the character of "Eric John Stark"!
This was my first time reading a piece of Brackett's fiction from start to finish, and I really enjoyed it and think she lives up to her reputation as the "queen of space opera" for the most part!
There are parts of this where I kinda lose interest or found it was a bit murky on what exactly was happening in the story, BUT overall I enjoyed this as a cool middle ground between the rawness of Robert E Howard's "Conan" stories, and The planetary adventures of Burroughs "John Carter of Mars" with a little bit of Ray Bradbury mixed in for good measure!
So happy birthday (December 7th) to Leigh Brackett one of the more notable mid-century women sci-fi and fantasy authors! I for sure will be reading more of her fiction in the near future!
This was my first time reading a piece of Brackett's fiction from start to finish, and I really enjoyed it and think she lives up to her reputation as the "queen of space opera" for the most part!
There are parts of this where I kinda lose interest or found it was a bit murky on what exactly was happening in the story, BUT overall I enjoyed this as a cool middle ground between the rawness of Robert E Howard's "Conan" stories, and The planetary adventures of Burroughs "John Carter of Mars" with a little bit of Ray Bradbury mixed in for good measure!
So happy birthday (December 7th) to Leigh Brackett one of the more notable mid-century women sci-fi and fantasy authors! I for sure will be reading more of her fiction in the near future!
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