Short Sorcery: Leigh Brackett’s “The Moon That Vanished”

Posted By admin on Dec 22, 2020

Short Sorcery: Leigh Brackett’s “The Moon That Vanished”by Bill WardFrom 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...