Shannach The Last

Download or read book Shannach: The Last written by Leigh Brackett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in this grip of alien horror a man could not throw away his lifetime goal . . . and not stand idly by as endless rows of alabaster, shapes seated in their chars of stone, thought-rules this gargoyle planet from the dead blackness of deep Mercurian caverns. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978.