Both were regulars in Planet Stories at the time. Here’s how it came about:īoth authors were living in the Los Angeles area in the 1940s, and both had been working hard to develop their craft as writers. The only collaboration between two great science fiction authors, Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury. Blogging Brackett: “The Woman From Altair” This entry was posted in Leigh Brackett and tagged Baen Books, Edmond Hamilton, Leigh Brackett, Startling Stories on Januby Keith West. He’ll wish he’d heeded the caravan master’s advice. Curiosity getting the better of him, Ross approaches the man and engages him in conversation. When Ross asks his caravan master about the man, the caravan master tells him to forget about him. Ross can see immediately there’s something different about this person. He’s sitting in a dive, waiting for the final preparations to be made for his caravan, when a man walks in. In this one, an ethnologist named John Ross is on Mars studying the various tribes and hoping to be awarded an endowed chair at a university on Earth for his work. As cool as her Venus stories are (and we’re not done looking at them), Brackett’s stories of Mars are what made her reputation. So here’s a Mars story, a planet we’ve not looked at yet in this series of posts on Brackett. Originally published in Startling Stories, April 1952
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