Series
Skaith
Leigh Brackett · 3 novels · 1 short story · 1974–1976
Leigh Brackett's Skaith trilogy (The Ginger Star, The Hounds of Skaith, The Reavers of Skaith) brought her longtime hero Eric John Stark — an Earthman raised by aboriginal Mercurians, prone to reverting to a feral "man without a tribe" under pressure — to a new setting after the Mariner probes made her old Mars and Venus untenable as adventure backdrops. Skaith blends her trademark planetary-romance swordplay with a colder, more overtly fantastical dying world, and the trilogy was later collected as The Book of Skaith.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Skaith at the centre, 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
- 1970s4
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionquestsother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 33% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Reavers of Skaithdarkest
- The Ginger Starbrightest · most intense
- The Hounds of Skaithcalmest