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A World is Born
Leigh Douglass Brackett
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Mercury is a lush, hot world. Mel Grey and a group of pioneers and prisoners are working hard to make the planet habitable for mankind. But there are those who would have the world all for themselves. Romance and adventure await Mel Grey on this savage planet!
Mercury is a lush, hot world. Mel Grey and a group of pioneers and prisoners are working hard to make the planet habitable for mankind. But there are those who would have the world all for themselves. Romance and adventure await Mel Grey on this savage planet!
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"I've got—connections," returned Ward cryptically. "Interested?"
Gray hesitated. There was too much he couldn't understand. Moreover, he was a lone wolf. Had been since the Second Interplanetary War wrenched him from the quiet backwater of his country home an eternity of eight years before and hammered him into hardness—a cynic who trusted nobody and nothing but Mel 'Duke' Gray.
"If you have connections," he said slowly, "why don't you use 'em yourself?"
"I got my reasons." Again that secretive grin. "But it's no hide off you, p. 59 is it? All you want is to get away."
That was true. It would do no harm to hear what Ward had to say.
Lightning burst overhead, streaking down to be caught and grounded by the copper cables. The livid flare showed Dio's face, hard with worry and determination. Gray nodded.
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A World is Born, by Leigh Brackett, Original: _Comet_ magazine, July 1941, pp. 56-70. Chapterbook published 2007
Prisoners on Mercury toiling in the fields, just days away from an event that would prove the merit of the program that would be a haven for the unfortunate and derelict who were horribly
It was fun to read aloud when the power went out last night. 1941 sf story taking place on Mercury. Most of the science doesn't hold up well, and the characters are paper thin and sexist caricatures (and maybe a little racist). But the prose has its moments, and some of the imagery is pretty cool. 2
I've read 4-5 short stories by Brackett. I'd like to like them, but I don't. The characters are always uninteresting and the plots aren't particularly enthralling either. In A World Is Born the electricity eating nasty creatures are a nice touch, but that's about it. And I did like the fact that she
Another really good short novella. Yes, it is dated. It was written in the 1940's. It is, however, well written. It has a good premise. The science is outdated because we have come a long way since then. Still, for speculative fiction it has a lot of interesting ideas. The plot is good. The characte
Backed by the Interplanetary Prison Authority, John Moulton and his daughter Jill lead a project to building a community on Mercury as a second chance for prisoners and derelicts from Earth. Most of the laborers are volunteers, with one exception. Mel Gray was sent by the IPA, which puts him under s
Fairly lame, though not untypical for the era.
The sexist stereotypes and setting on a fictionalized Mercury that bears no plausible resemblance to what we know Mercury is like have not aged well.
I did not find the characters particularly engaging.
Maybe if I were 14 in 1949 (and it was still 1949!),
While I wasn't thrilled with the distressed damsel, and the the whole story was sadly drenched in the misogyny of the times, I did like seeing a cynic become an optimist who was willing to fight for something other than just himself.
straightforward action/adventure on Mercury, where a convict tries to escape a terraforming project that has enemies.
This is really a longish short story, but it was already listed on Goodreads so I decided to count it. I listened to a version on my Kindle that I downloaded from Feedbooks. It also has a very nice introduction about Brackett, which I found interesting. The story itself showcases Brackett's fine ima
Old-fashioned for today, reasonably cutting edge for its time. It's one of the old books that doesn't quite pass the test of time, though it's a fun read for the few minutes that it takes to get through it.