The Planetary Adventures Of Eric John Stark [Kindle Edition]

Leigh Brackett (Author)

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He is Eric John Stark, known far and wide around the galaxy because of his many exploits and unparalleled fearlessness. But he is also called N’Chaka, Man-Without-a-Tribe. Born and raised in the savage surroundings of Mercury, and then reclaimed by his fellow Earthmen after they have destroyed his tribe and home, Stark spends his life wandering, not staying in one place for long, yet ever and always leaving his mark.

From dry and arid Mars with its vampiric Ramas, to red and lush Venus with its psychotic Lhari, and back again to the cold and cruel winter region of Mars and the Gates of Death, Stark fulfills overwhelming deeds of heroism, creating friendships and discovering love, yet still remaining true to his namesake–N’Chaka, Man-Without-A-Tribe.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 430 KB
• Publisher: Wonder Publishing Group (April 1, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003F24ITO
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #235,703 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sword and Planet, January 2, 2011

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This review is from: The Planetary Adventures Of Eric John Stark (Kindle Edition)

Also known as "planetary romance" this was interplanetary SF before scientific reality got in the way, with a steamy jungle Venus and a dusty dying Mars. Leigh Brackett did this better than anyone. Only Burroughs could offer decent competition, but if Barsoom is interplanetary adventure by the author of Tarzan, this is interplanetary fiction by the author of some pretty good hard-boiled detective novels--a world with seductive and deadly women, dangerous men, degenerate rulers and plain well-meaning bureaucrats perhaps deadlier than any of them. No one can touch Brackett for description and dialogue, and this contains some of her best.

Included are "Queen of the Martian Catacombs" "Enchantress of Venus""Black Amazon of Mars" and "The Road to Sinharat." All are John Eric Stark stories except the last, which may be the best introduction to Brackett's Mars. Note that "Queen" was later expanded into THE SECRET OF SINHARAT and "Black Amazon" into PEOPLE OF THE TALISMAN, but there were changes. Reading the novel doesn't always tell you how the short story turns out.

Any one story worth the price.