Lorelei of the Red Mist
Subtitle: Planetary Romances
By: by Leigh Brackett; edited by Stephen Haffner; preface by Ray Bradbury; illustrated by Frank Kelly Freas.
Contributors: Stephen Haffner (Editor); Frank Kelly Freas (Illustrator); Ray Bradbury (Preface)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Haffner Press
Published: December 27, 2007
Place of publication: Royal Oak, MI
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781893887244
Subjects: Short Stories (single author); Science fiction, American.
Genres: Science Fiction.
Description: Picking up where Martian Quest: The Early Brackett left off, this volume collects 12 more tales of strange adventures on other worlds from the undisputed "Queen of Space Opera." Drawn from Planet Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories pulp magazines, this tome revels in the 1946 titular collaboration with Ray Bradbury--who also contributes an original poem about Leigh Brackett as well as an essay about meeting & working with Brackett. Harry Turtledove, the modern master of "alternate history," provides the introduction and the book is adorned with Frank Kelly Freas' vintage illustrations from the 1953 reprint of "Lorelei of the Red Mist." In a review of Martian Quest: The Early Brackett, Paul di Filippo says "Plainly, Brackett was growing with every story she wrote, not yet 30 years old by the volume's end, with the best yet to come." Lorelei of the Red Mist: Planetary Romances is where some of that "best" can found.
Table of contents: title: The Blue Behemoth; title: Thralls of the Endless Night; title: The Jewel of Bas; title: The Veil of Astellar; title: Terror out of Space; title: The Vanishing Venusians; title: Lorelei of the Red Mist (with Ray Bradbury); title: The Moon that Vanished; title: The Beast-Jewel of Mars; title: Quest of the Starhope; title: The Lake of the Gone Forever; title: The Dancing Girl of Ganymede