Their faces were pallid and effeminate, scored with the marks of life lived under the driving tension of a super-modern age. Jill Leland was a wealthy member of the thrill-seeking classes who spend their leisure time in the solar system's Trade Cities, where the decadent rich of Earth gamble and indulge in elaborate vices! Such pastimes are sought to relieve the pressure of life in the go go future-here are the kinds of people one sees in the Trade Cities:
What happened to this dude, who was once one of our best space pilots? He lost his girl to alien drug pushers, that's what! "The Beast-Jewel of Mars" was the cover story of the Winter 1948 edition of Planet Stories, where it is advertised as a story of "lost worlds" where beautiful women try to bewitch tall men (how different is that, really, from our own world?) I like the cover illustration-the principal figures wear suitably and convincingly desperate expressions and the female lead sports a charming little blue number-and the inside pages boast not only the Brackett tale but contributions from two other beloved writers on the fantastical end of the SF spectrum, Ray Bradbury and Frank Belknap Long.Ĭaptain Burk Winters is a broken man! He chain smokes Venusian cigarettes! His hands shake so severely he drops coins all over the place when he pays a cabbie. Today we'll tackle the remaining four stories it contains by the celebrated writer of SF adventures, detective stories, and screenplays. The collection includes five stories, and we've already read one, "The Last Days of Shandakor," as it also appears in The Best of Leigh Brackett, which we read in its entirety in the summer of last year.
There is some mystery over exactly when this edition was published and who produced its cover illustration, but we know that the first edition of The Coming of the Terrans was published in 1967 and had a cover by Gray Morrow.
Let's explore yet another of my Fifty Cent Second Story Books finds, my copy of Ace's 1970s edition of The Coming of the Terrans by Leigh Brackett.
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