A collage of everything I can find :-
(without getting into crazy multi-editions, etc. )
For some reason, the old link/page won't work anymore. Moderator people could dump the Brackettology post as now being useless if they like.
A collage of everything I can find :-
(without getting into crazy multi-editions, etc. )
For some reason, the old link/page won't work anymore. Moderator people could dump the Brackettology post as now being useless if they like.
Wow, thanks for sharing. Seriously. I especially love the pulp covers -- it's a pity that art like that doesn't exist any more, with the proper balance of gosh-wow wonder and sheer cheesiness.
I was also kinda surprised to see just how many of those covers I've either seen or actually own.
A collage of everything I can find :-
(without getting into crazy multi-editions, etc. )
For some reason, the old link/page won't work anymore. Moderator people could dump the Brackettology post as now being useless if they like.
Wow, thanks for sharing. Seriously. I especially love the pulp covers -- it's a pity that art like that doesn't exist any more, with the proper balance of gosh-wow wonder and sheer cheesiness.
I was also kinda surprised to see just how many of those covers I've either seen or actually own.
yes very cool blue!...the only one i have that has a different cover is 'The Starmen of Llyrdis' (ballantine edition 1976)aka'The Starmen'...i've got all of these except a couple of anthologies (with stories i already have),the westerns(which i'm desperately looking for)and the crime which i'm just not interested in...well done
yes very cool blue!...the only one i have that has a different cover is 'The Starmen of Llyrdis' (ballantine edition 1976)aka'The Starmen'...i've got all of these except a couple of anthologies (with stories i already have),the westerns(which i'm desperately looking for)and the crime which i'm just not interested in...well doneI was also kinda surprised to see just how many of those covers I've either seen or actually own.
Do you like the hardboiled detective thing? If you don't, you could avoid it, but if you do like Chandler etc., then Brackett is top class as far as this sort of thing goes - at least in the novel and two stories I have read.
There is apparently a collection also called 'No Good From A Corpse' that has her stories and the novel - but it is one of those extremely limited edition American collectables, again.
Depending whether you want to buy or read, interlibrary loan may work, depending on hwere you are - there are certainly some large print versions of some of these, which may still be floating around where you are.
Check the Libraries Australia site.
yes very cool blue!...the only one i have that has a different cover is 'The Starmen of Llyrdis' (ballantine edition 1976)aka'The Starmen'...i've got all of these except a couple of anthologies (with stories i already have),the westerns(which i'm desperately looking for)and the crime which i'm just not interested in...well doneI was also kinda surprised to see just how many of those covers I've either seen or actually own.
Do you like the hardboiled detective thing? If you don't, you could avoid it, but if you do like Chandler etc., then Brackett is top class as far as this sort of thing goes - at least in the novel and two stories I have read.
There is apparently a collection also called 'No Good From A Corpse' that has her stories and the novel - but it is one of those extremely limited edition American collectables, again.
Depending whether you want to buy or read, interlibrary loan may work, depending on hwere you are - there are certainly some large print versions of some of these, which may still be floating around where you are.
Check the Libraries Australia site.
no the detective thing doesn't interest me but i will keep looking for them cause it's LB...i remember seeing 'no good for a corpse' the novel ages ago...i don't mind a good western and 'follow the free wind' is supposed to be a classic...i'm such a LB freak i've even got dvd's of a few of those john wayne things that she did...they're good( no surprise)
A collage of everything I can find :-
(without getting into crazy multi-editions, etc. )
For some reason, the old link/page won't work anymore. Moderator people could dump the Brackettology post as now being useless if they like.
VERY cool. Thanks, Tyson! I just wish that Freas had done some more paintings for Brackett's tales.
BTW, stop back by the REH Forum sometime. ;)
Sure. I read it off and on, just don't have much to add. :)
Btw, for other people interested I added some more variants to that today.
Well, I read my first Brackett, and I was very pleased. Hopefully that came through in my review of Ginger Star.
Buy Planet Stories! Read Brackett!
Well, I read my first Brackett, and I was very pleased. Hopefully that came through in my review of Ginger Star.
Buy Planet Stories! Read Brackett!
Huzzah! Especially because, in my opinion, Hounds and Reavers are both even better than Ginger Star... I look forward to hearing what you think of them.
Huzzah! Especially because, in my opinion, Hounds and Reavers are both even better than Ginger Star... I look forward to hearing what you think of them.Well, I read my first Brackett, and I was very pleased. Hopefully that came through in my review of Ginger Star.
Buy Planet Stories! Read Brackett!
Definitely, so is The Sword Of Rhiannon.
I'm about halfway through The Hounds of Skaith, and its goin down mighty smoothly.
Hi gang!
I'll jump in with a scan of my personal copy of Planet Stories, Summer 1949, the issue marking the first print appearance of Eric John Stark!
http://www.groovium.com/planet_stories_covers.html
The cover is a scream, and I'm wrestling with armature wire and foam rubber to make a stop-motion puppet of a vork (that seahorse-thoat-thing 8-).
I've been watching "The Big Sleep", "Rio Bravo" and "Hatari" to fortify my imagination, and her films illuminate her stories, and vice-versa.
I hope there's a small town on Mars or Mercury somewhere, where an older Eric John Stark has settled down for a life of sorts as the local sherriff, with Dude and Stumpy and Colorado for companions and Feathers waiting for him after a long day.
There's a short-story compilation to be made of her Solar-System stories; here's my would-be list:
(Mercury) Shannach, The Last
(Venus) The Moon That Vanished
(Earth) The Halfling
(Mars) The Beast-Jewel of Mars
(The Belt) The Veil of Astellar
(Jupiter) The Dancing Girl of Ganymede
(The 10th) The Jewel of Bas
"The Ginger Star" is, I suggest, Brackett's last vision of Barsoom, and a very dark and scary vision it is. The tales feel like she drew nightmares from the dark side of the 60's and worked them deeply into the whole concept of a dying world full of weird and savage beings. Her long love-affair with "halflings" and her harsh vision of the Drylands produced the Children of the Sea and the Runners. These are truly creepy and frightening creatures, suggesting devolution and madness as well as Lovecraft ever did.
A good friend of mine once illustrated the fault line in popular culture splitting the eras before and after "Star Wars." In 1976 the "Doc Savage" movie was made, and the only approach considered was camp, a la Batman. You couldn't take our favorite genres seriously. Then Lucas made a movie for himself, mostly, and revealed an enormous audience for space opera and sword-and-planet yarns. Ever since, these and allied genres have effectively driven the entertainment industry.
(Mercury) Shannach, The Last
(Venus) The Moon That Vanished
(Earth) The Halfling
(Mars) The Beast-Jewel of Mars
(The Belt) The Veil of Astellar
(Jupiter) The Dancing Girl of Ganymede
(The 10th) The Jewel of Bas
Baen's way ahead of you here :-
http://www.webscription.net/p-854-the-solar-system.aspx
That omnibus has these books in it :-
Mercury's Light
Swamps of Venus
Sea-Kings of Mars
Shadow Over Mars
Martian Quest
Beyond Mars
Alpha Centauri or Die
apart from the standalone novels, Mercury's Light, Swamps of Venus, Martian Quest collect stories on those planets, and Beyond Mars stuff further out.
Hi gang!
I'll jump in with a scan of my personal copy of Planet Stories, Summer 1949, the issue marking the first print appearance of Eric John Stark!
http://www.groovium.com/planet_stories_covers.html
The cover is a scream, and I'm wrestling with armature wire and foam rubber to make a stop-motion puppet of a vork (that seahorse-thoat-thing 8-).
You are an animator? Sounds cool, so there could be Youtube in the future? :)
Lying in my sickbed, I finished Hounds. And yes, it was even better than Ginger Star. I'm sure it was even more salutary than chicken noodle soup.
You are an animator? Sounds cool, so there could be Youtube in the future? :)Hi gang!
I'll jump in with a scan of my personal copy of Planet Stories, Summer 1949, the issue marking the first print appearance of Eric John Stark!
http://www.groovium.com/planet_stories_covers.html
The cover is a scream, and I'm wrestling with armature wire and foam rubber to make a stop-motion puppet of a vork (that seahorse-thoat-thing 8-).
I am a n00b studying like mad to become Ray Harryhausen, Jr. 8-)
http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/But yes, look for fun stuff soon -- here's an early poster:
http://www.groovium.com/coming_attractions.html