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Shannach – The Last:
Farewell to Mars
Leigh
Brackett
Introduction by ???
Illustrated
by Ed
Emshwiller and Frank
Kelly Freas
ISBN
9781893887442
$40.00
500+ pages Hardcover
Description
Picking up
where Lorelei of
the Red Mist: Planetary Romances left off, this
volume collects the final 17 stories of
strange adventures on other worlds from the undisputed "Queen of Space
Opera." Drawn from the last years of pulp magazines such as Planet
Stories, Startling
Stories, and Thrilling
Wonder
Stories, Shannach – The Last:
Farewell to Mars sees Brackett at the peak of her
talents. Oddly, it is at this point where she abandons the
"planetary romance" sub-genre and embarks on a small string of stories
tinged with social relevance. This departure didn't stop editors asking
for some of "that old Brackett magic" and she offered up two latter day
tales ("The Road to Sinharat" and "Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon")
before returning to chronicle further adventures of Eric John Stark in
her final "Skaith" novels. Closing out the collection is a trio of
tales written on commission from the "king of anthologies," Roger
Elwood.
The book is adorned with Frank
Kelly Freas' and Ed Emshwiller's vintage illustrations from the
original pulp magazines.
In a review of Lorelei
of
the Red Mist: Planetary Romances
Paul di Filippo says "[Brackett's
work] is replete with
hard-bitten protagonists with wounded
psyches, females both nurturing and malevolent, weird alien life forms,
strange planetary environments, danger, treachery, camaraderie and even
spiritual epiphanies. In short, this book holds the essence of SF—at
least, the essence of one very important school of it."
Yeah, that's the stuff!
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Table of Contents
"Introduction" by ???
The Truants (Startling Stories
Jul ’50)
The Citadel of Lost Ages (Startling
Stories Dec ’50)
The Woman from Altair (Startling
Stories Jul ’51)
The Shadows (Startling Stories
Feb ’52)
The Last Days of Shandakor (Startling
Stories Apr ’52)
Shannach—the Last (Planet
Stories Nov ’52)
Mars Minus Bisha (Planet
Stories Jan ’54)
Runaway (Startling Stories
Spr ’54)
The Tweener (The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction Feb ’55)
Last Call from Sector 9G (Planet Stories Sum '55)
The Queer
Ones (Venture
Mar ’57)
All the Colors of the Rainbow (Venture
Nov ’57)
The Road to Sinharat (Amazing
Stories May ’63)
Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon (ss) F&SF Oct ’64)
Come Sing the Moons of Moravenn (The Other Side of Tomorrow, ed.
Roger Elwood, 1973)
How Bright
the Stars (Flame Tree Planet, ed. Roger
Elwood, 1973)
Mommies and
Daddies (Crisis, ed.
Roger Elwood, 1974)
"Afterword"
by
Leigh Brackett
Reviews
Excerpts
TBA
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