Series
Eric John Stark
Leigh Brackett · 5 novels · 3 novellas · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 3 collections · 1949–2024
Eric John Stark is Leigh Brackett's Mercury-born wanderer, orphaned young and raised by native tribesmen before growing into an outlaw with a fierce loyalty to colonized and exploited peoples across the solar system. Beginning in the pulp magazine Planet Stories in 1949, his adventures carry him through jungle Venus, ancient dying Mars, and later the far world of Skaith, mixing swordplay, exile, and rebellion in classic sword-and-planet style. The stories favor mood, landscape, and action over hard science, prizing Brackett's atmospheric prose.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Skaith(4 works)
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Eric John Stark at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1940s2
- 1950s1
- 1960s3
- 1970s4
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
Shape
5 novels · 3 novellas · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 3 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionquestsmarsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book12 of 13 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Reavers of Skaithdarkest
- The Secret of Sinharatbrightest
- The Hounds of Skaithcalmest
- Queen of the Martian Catacombsmost intense