The Secret of Sinharat
Enter Eric John Stark, adventurer, rebel, wildman. Raised on the sun-soaked, savage world of Mercury, Stark lives among the people of the civilized solar system, but his veneer of calm masks a warrior's spirit. In the murderous Martian Drylands the greatest criminals in the galaxy hatch a...
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Enter Eric John Stark, adventurer, rebel, wildman. Raised on the sun-soaked, savage world of Mercury, Stark lives among the people of the civilized solar system, but his veneer of calm masks a warrior's spirit. In the murderous Martian Drylands the greatest criminals in the galaxy hatch a conspiracy of red revolution. Stark's involvement leads to the forgotten ruins of the Martian Low Canals, an unlikely romance and a secret so potent it could shake the Red Planet to its core.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781601250476 (1601250479)
Publish date: February 5th 2008
Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLC.
Pages no: 237
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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