Stories in The Brackett Solar System
The following stories belong to the Brackett Solar System. They are grouped by location and in order of publication:
- Brackett's Mercury Stories
- The Demons of Darkside
- A World Is Born
- Cube From Space
- Shannach – the Last
- Brackett's Venus Stories
- The Stellar Legion
- Interplanetary Reporter
- The Dragon-Queen of Venus (aka The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter)
- The Citadel of Lost Ships
- The Blue Behemoth
- Terror Out of Space
- The Vanishing Venusians
- Lorelei of the Red Mist
- The Moon That Vanished
- Enchantress of Venus (aka City of the Lost Ones)
- Brackett's Mars Stories
- Martian Quest
- The Treasure of Ptakuth
- Water Pirate
- The Sorcerer of Rhiannon
- The Veil of Astellar
- Shadow Over Mars (aka The Nemesis from Terra)
- The Beast-Jewel of Mars
- Quest of the Starhope
- Queen of the Martian Catacombs (exp. to The Secret of Sinharat)
- Sea-Kings of Mars (exp. to The Sword of Rhiannon)
- Black Amazon of Mars (exp. to People of the Talisman)
- The Last Days of Shandakor
- Mars Minus Bisha
- The Road to Sinharat
- Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon
- Alpha Centauri or Die
- Other Stories set in the Brackett Universe
- No Man's Land in Space
- Child of the Green Light
- Outpost on Io
- The Halfling
- The Dancing Girl of Ganymede
- Unrelated and dubious stories
The Lake of the Gone Forever and Thralls of the Endless Night take place on asteroids in the solar system, but both lack the explicit markers that tag most of Brackett's stories in this universe. Child of the Sun and Retreat to the Stars both take place in the solar system, but apparently in an alternative reality where an all-powerful interplanetary government is hounding the last few rebels to the brink of extinction. The Ark of Mars begins on what is recognizably Brackett's Mars, though apparently at a distant future time; however, it soon leaves it. The Skaith trilogy, although intentionally linked to the Solar System stories through the person of Eric John Stark, takes place in a world in which humans seem to have had interstellar travel for some time -- which is not at all the case for the other Solar System stories. The Jewel of Bas does not contradict anything in the other Leigh Brackett solar system stories, but has little to no relationship with them as well--its proper inclusion in the setting is difficult to verify.
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