Leigh Brackett

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1945
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Book of Skaith

1 - Ginger Star ()
2 - The Hounds of Skaith (1974)
3 - The Reavers of Skaith (Jul-1976)

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Star Wars

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: Original Movie Script (Nov-1996)

Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • The Vanishing Venusians

    Matt Harker and his people have journeyed for far too long. A rag-tag group of Earthmen and Venusians floating on the Sea of Morning Opals. Floating without a home and with very little hope. Victimized by hostile natives, burning fevers, bad soil, an...

  • Follow the Free Wind

    Beckwith was known far and wide as a runaway slave, a renegade, a horse thief, and a fearsome warrior who had taken over a hundred scalps, among other things. But the real James Beckwith was even bigger than his mythic persona. Beckwith was as wild a...

  • The Hounds of Skaith

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    Book of Skaith - 2

    • Eric John Stark rides again! Leigh Brackett’s unforgettable science-fantasy hero of The Secret of Sinharat and The Ginger Star cuts a red swath across the brutal planet Skaith
    • Having killed the king-dog Flay in his quest to save a...

  • The Big Jump

    Stardrive! Access to the farthest reaches of the Galaxy! Ballantyne created and tested the new engines. Then he returned from the stars ... alone and dying of radiation. Arch Comyn must find out what happened -- and to do that he must make the pe...

  • The Reavers of Skaith

    Book of Skaith - 3

    Safe at last, or so Stark thought. But before he could escape from the dying planet of the ginger star, he was betrayed by that treacherous Antarean Penkawr-Che. That villain among men intended to kill Stark, and this time there would be no excape. O...

  • The Coming of the Terrans

    A dying planet, dried up and hostile; a planet of countless years and countless mysteries.

    When the Terrans came, they found a world of dead sea-bottoms, lost civilizations, and secretive tribes bitterly resenting their intrusion on the fad...

  • The Starmen of Llyrdis

  • Sword of Rhiannon

    Greed pulls the archaeologist Matt Carse into the forgotten tomb of the Martian god Rhiannon and plunges the unlikely hero into the Red Planet''s fantastic past, when vast oceans covered the land and the legendary Sea-Kings ruled from terraced pal...

  • Eric John Stark



  • Long Tomorrow

    One of the original novels of post-nuclear-holocaust America, The Long Tomorrow is considered by many to be one of the finest science fiction novels ever written on the subject. The story has inspired generations of new writers and is still as mesmer...

  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: Original Movie Script

    Star Wars

  • The Tiger Among Us

    From the screenwriter for STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, THE BIG SLEEP, and RIO BRAVO... Walter Sherrisââ,¬"successful, happy, good husband and fatherââ,¬"made just one mistake: he took a walk along a dark road one night. Without warning, a ca...

  • No Good from a Corpse

    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’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death, and private eye Ed Clive didn’t believe that her boyfriend...

  • The Secret of Sinharat

    • Enter Eric John Stark, adventurer, rebel, wildman. Raised on the sun-soaked, savage world of Mercury, Stark lives among the people of the civilized solar system, but his veneer of calm masks a warrior's spirit. In the murderous Martian Dryla...

  • 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 were recognizable as those of a swordfish......

  • 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 heist in history. And then he awakened in a new body to...

  • Planet Stories, Summer 1949

    QUEEN OF THE MARTIAN CATACOMBS by Leigh Brackett Gaunt giant and passionate beauty, they dragged their thirst-crazed way across the endless crimson sands in a terrible test of endurance. For one of them knew where cool life-giving water lapped old st...

  • A World Is Born

    The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress… Includes a new introduction by John Gregory Betancourt....

  • Black Amazon Of Mars And Other Tales From The Pulps

    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 d...



  • The Planetary Adventures of Eric John Stark

    He is Eric John Stark, known far and wide around the galaxy because of his many exploits and unparalleled fearlessness. But he is also called N’Chaka, Man-Without-a-Tribe. Born and raised in the savage surroundings of Mercury, and then reclaimed by...

  • 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....

  • Enchantress of Venus

    Few men have gone beyond that barrier, into the vast mystery of Inner Venus. Fewer still have come back.Excerpt The ship moved slowly across the Red Sea, through the shrouding veils of mist, her sail barely filled by the languid thrust of the wind. H...

  • Outpost on Io

    In a crystalline death lay the only release for those prisoners of that Ionian hell-outpost. Yet MacVickers and the men had to escape -- for to remain meant the conquering of the Solar System by the inhuman Europans....

  • 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 he loved. Leigh Brackett was the queen of spa...

  • The Beast-Jewel of Mars

    The wise men of Caer Dhu were not so wise. They found the secret of Shanga, and they escaped their wars and their troubles by fleeing backward along the path of evolution.Excerpt Burk Winters remained in the passenger section while the Starflight mad...

  • 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 in a tiny ball of flame! Classic science fict...

  • Terror Out Of Space

    An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad, of a menace without name or form, and of the man, Lundy, who fought the horror, his eyes blinded by his will. For ...

  • The 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 Venus -- only to find that it had become a slave trap...

  • Shannach- The Last

    An Earthman on Mercury stumbles into a long lost colony in a hidden air-filled valley, ruled by harsh Sunstone wielding hawk controlling lords - and, of course, an alien overlord behind them.excerptIt was dark in the caves under Mercury. It was hot, ...



  • The Dragon-Queen of Venus

    Attempting to make Venus safe for colonists turns out to be a very dangerous job for Tex and his partner Breska.excerptTex stirred uneasily where he lay on the parapet, staring into the heavy, Venusian fog. The greasy moisture ran down the fort wall,...

  • The Jewel of Bas

    There was a boy-God, sleeping through eternity. And there were his "Stone of Life" and the androids he had created of matter and energy. And there was a world that was to die from the machinations of the androids' diabolic minds. There we...

  • The Stellar Legion

    MacIan was a man with a secret, and it had followed him to Venus and the Legion, escape was impossible…ExcerptSilence was on the barracks like a lid clamped over tight-coiled springs. Men in rumpled uniforms -- outlanders of the Stellar Legion, spa...

  • Last Call for 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.ExcerptMartie said monotonously, "There is someone a...

  • Lord of the Earthquake

    In the mysterious lands of Manoa, Xacul claims he is a god, but is he really the one causing the rumbling and fire spouting from the ground? ExcerptIt was stiflingly hot in the submarine's tiny cabin. The steady pound of the screws was a throbbing ac...

  • Queen of the Martian Catacombs

    Erik John Stark is sent on a perilous mission into the Valkis and encounters the Queen of the Martian Catacombs.ExcerptThe leader of the four men rode slowly toward the tor, his right arm raised.His voice carried clearly on the wind. "Eric John Stark...

  • Shadow Over Mars

    How would Rick fulfill the prophecy that linked his name with the destiny of a dying world?Leigh Brackett the Mistress of Planetary Romance brings you this action packed adventure set on Mars!...

  • Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 2

  • 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 rider. Now it was spent. It faltered and broke strid...

  • The Illustrated Stark

    This hardcover edition collects the entirety of the 70th Anniversary Illustrated edition of the adventures of Leigh Brackett's pulp hero, Eric John Stark. Contains Queen of the Martian Catacombs (1949), The Enchantress of Venus (1949), and Black A...



  • Eric John Stark: Outlaw of Mars

    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 and wan...

  • 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 undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first woman to be ...

  • Shannach

  • 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 was screamed: Halt those fleeing star-pilgrims ...

  • The Dancing Girl of Ganymede

    She had come to life, but she was not human. If Harrah had seen her before he would not have forgotten. He thought that no man could ever forget her. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the c...

  • 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 secret that lay at the end of the road to Sinharat. Leig...

  • 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 was done upon it. But the lesser gods were jealous, ...

  • 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 legendary race of powerful beings known as the Star...

  • 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. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Op...

  • The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Leigh Brackett

    The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Leigh BrackettThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - Black Amazon of Mars2 - The Stellar Legion3 - The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter4 - Child of the Sun5 - Outpo...



  • The Halfling and Other Stories

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  • Lorelei of the Red Mist Ray Bradbury

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    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 heist in history. And then he awakened in a new body t...

  • Starmen of Llyrids

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  • Ginger Star

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    Book of Skaith - 1

    Eric John Stark, Outlaw of Mars, travels beyond the solar system for exciting adventures on the planet of Skaith, a lawless sphere at the edge of the known universe. Raised as a savage on the hostile planet of Mercury and honed into a fearless war...

Award-Winning Books by Leigh Brackett

Follow the Free Wind
1963 SPUR Award -- Western Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leigh Brackett has published 53 books.

Leigh Brackett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Leigh Brackett, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Leigh Brackett, The Vanishing Venusians, was published in April 1945.

Yes. Leigh Brackett has 1 series.
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