The Best of Leigh Brackett - Leigh Brackett

Znikający Wenusjanie - Leigh

The Coming of the Terrans -

A dying planet, dried up and hostile -- a planet of countless years and countless mysteries. When the Terrans came, they found a world of dead sea-bottoms, lost civilizations, and secretive tribes bitterly resenting their intrusion on the fading glory of an ancient planet. The Earthmen looked

Dziecko Słońca - Leigh

Opowiadanie SF napisane przez Leigh Brackett - odpowiedzialną za napisanie scenariuszy do filmów: „Rio Bravo”, „Wielki sen”, „Imperium kontratakuje” i wielu innych. Powrót do rozważań o wartościach, wolności, miłości, odwadze, męstwie w obliczu sytuacji postrzeganej, jako beznadziejną. A jednak...

The Big Jump - Leigh Brackett

A good story, with very good characterization and flashes of an almost Merrittesque poetry... The story concerns itelf with THE BIG JUMP from this system to another sun - Barnard's Star. The first expedition returned: one man alive, the others missing, and that one man dying of some ghastly sort

Alpha Centauri or Die! -

Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Solar System - only 4.3 light years away. To Kirby and his followers it meant freedom - freedom from the tyranny and repression of Earth's dictatorship. But that freedom would have to be earned - the flight to Alpha Centauri would mean five years jammed in