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Black Amazon of Mars
Leigh Douglass Brackett
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Carrying out the last wishes of a comrade, mercenary Eric John Stark takes on the task of returning a stolen talisman to a walled city near the Martian pole; a city that guards the mysterious Gates of Death. Now all he has to do is get past the brutal clans of Mekh and the shadowy Lord Ciaran to get to Kushat where they’ll probably attempt to kill him. All while he tries to hold on to a talisman that imprints ancient memories of the Gates in his mind. That’s not easy for a human raised by Mercurian aborigines.
Carrying out the last wishes of a comrade, mercenary Eric John Stark takes on the task of returning a stolen talisman to a walled city near the Martian pole; a city that guards the mysterious Gates of Death. Now all he has to do is get past the brutal clans of Mekh and the shadowy Lord Ciaran to get to Kushat where they’ll probably attempt to kill him. All while he tries to hold on to a talisman that imprints ancient memories of the Gates in his mind. That’s not easy for a human raised by Mercurian aborigines.
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A chill swept Stark. He too had seen, not with his own eyes but with the mind and memories of Ban Cruach, of a million years ago.
Then it had been no illusion, the fantastic vision opened to him by the talisman now hidden in his belt! If this old madman had seen....
"What beings lurk beyond the Gates of Death I do not know," said Ciaran. "But my dark mistress will test their strength—and I think my red wolves will hunt them down, once they get a smell of plunder."
"The beautiful, terrible ones," whispered Otar. "And oh, the temples and the palaces, and the great towers of stone!"
"Ride with me, Stark," said the Lord Ciaran abruptly. "Yield up the talisman, and be the shield at my back. I have offered no other man that honor."
Stark asked slowly, "Why do you choose me?"
"We are of one blood, Stark, though we be strangers."
The Earthman's cold eye. . . Read More
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Golden-Age science fiction fans have encountered all of this before. And love it! Classic sword-and-planet mayhem featuring a grunting, square-jawed ball of sinew and testosterone... and I'm talking about our heroine! A refreshing story for an era where women were largely relegated to making coffee.
An excellent and suspenseful sword & planet short from Brackett, placed in her world of Eric John Stark, the adventuresome hero with a dark, primal side. First published in 1951, the story is notable for its kick ass female protagonist, in the role of the barbarian queen, i.e. the Black Amazon, who
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There's a lot of awesome here. Some of it is the work, but a lot of it is the author.
Leigh Brackett was a writer in many genres and a screenwriter also. Born in 1915, she defied stereotype and became known for her space operas. John Erik Stark, the hero of this story, is probably her best known cha
And now for my latest highly philosophical read...a masterpiece of literary fiction, laying bare the soul of Woman as with a scalpel, we have...BLACK AMAZON OF MARS!!! by Leigh Brackett.
*grin*
So, rewatching a favourite movie, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, recently, reminded me just how little I'd read of