The Secret of Sinharat
Format: paperback
Publish date: 1964
Publisher: Ace Books, 98 pages, Paperback" />
Pages no: 98
Edition language: English
Series: Eric John Stark (#1)
I'm one of those people who reads the prologue, the dedications, the epilogue, the publisher's comments, the blurb about the author. This one about Leigh Brackett was fascinating. She wrote the screenplay for The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo among others and a week before she died had turned in the scr...
This is some pretty amazing stuff (personally I liked the second book in here slightly more than the first). Smarter and more nuanced than most of the pulp sword and sorcery of its day (and don't let the setting fool you, it is essentially sword and sorcery), Leigh Brackett's work here feels like it...
It is hard to imagine a more enjoyable read than this classic combination of two pulp chronicles by the master Leigh Brackett. Probably best known for her last work, the early draft of the screenplay that became "The Empire Strikes Back," Brackett is regarded as a master by most in the scifi field....
12 years ago
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