Adventures in Fiction: Leigh Brackett
Our Appendix N Archeology and Adventures in Fiction series are meant to take a look at the writers and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby but our lives. We invite you to explore the entirety of the series on our Adventures In Fiction home page. Adventures in Fiction: Leigh Brackett by Michael Curtis The sad truth is that Appendix N is overwhelmingly a boys’ club. Much...
Classic Covers: Leigh Brackett
Author of classics like The Long Tomorrow and The Sword of Rhiannon, originator of popular serial character Eric John Stark, cover story darling of Planet Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories and dubbed Queen of Space Opera by her legions of fans, Leigh Brackett’s pulse-pounding adventures on Mars, Venus, and worlds stranger still have proven fertile ground for illustrators since she exploded onto the scene in the 1940s....
Leigh Brackett, The Planetary Romantic
Leigh Brackett, The Planetary Romantic by Ryan Harvey If you were a science-fiction reader in the 1940s, you knew there was one place to turn for a high quality, intelligent stories: Astounding Science Fiction. Under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Astounding was the spot for brainy speculative fiction. You didn’t look for that type of smarts over at Planet Stories, which was only interested in laser guns and trashy adventure...
Short Sorcery: Leigh Brackett’s “The Moon That Vanished”
Short Sorcery: Leigh Brackett’s “The Moon That Vanished” by Bill Ward From the start, from the very title itself, the reader is presented with a mystery in Leigh Brackett’s “The Moon That Vanished.” For one thing the story’s setting of Venus – think the Venus of Edgar Rice Burroughs rather than that of NASA probes – has no moon. But there is much more going on than that. The protagonist, David Heath, is himself...
Vintage Pulp Mags Back In Stock!
From Action Stories to Weird Tales, we’ve gotten in a huge restock on our Vintage Pulp Magazine collection! Goodman Games prides itself on being an advocate of the pulp movement, and of the Appendix N authors in particular. As you probably know, Appendix N is the list of books that Gary Gygax read when he was creating D&D, and it’s the same list of books that Joseph Goodman read when he was creating DCC RPG. And now you can...
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