Series
Mars
Leigh Brackett · 7 novels · 3 novellas · 3 novelettes · 3 short stories · 4 collections · 1948–2024
Leigh Brackett's Mars stories, part of her wider planetary-romance solar system, imagine a dying, desert Mars inhabited by ancient, decadent humanoid civilizations shaped by interplanetary trade and colonial conflict. Its recurring hero, the orphaned adventurer Eric John Stark, moves through novellas like Queen of the Martian Catacombs and Black Amazon of Mars as an antihero caught between larger powers rather than a conquering pulp champion. Brackett set the setting aside after the 1960s Mariner probes ruled out Martian life, turning to an explicitly invented world for her later Skaith trilogy.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
- Mars [2](7 works)
- Eric John Stark(13 works)
- Skaith(4 works)
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Mars at the centre, 3 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
- 1940s3
- 1950s5
- 1960s5
- 1970s4
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s2
- 2020s1
Shape
7 novels · 3 novellas · 3 novelettes · 3 short stories · 4 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionquestsmarsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 82% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book17 of 20 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Reavers of Skaithdarkest
- The Sword of Rhiannonbrightest
- The Hounds of Skaithcalmest
- Queen of the Martian Catacombsmost intense