Terror Out of Space - Leigh Brackett [15]
He'd only had his dream a little while. A few brief moments, already shadowed by death. His mind was drugged and tired, and didn't feel things as deeply and clearly as it might. That was all that saved him.
But he knew what Jackie Smith saw before he drowned. He knew why men had died or gone mad forever, when they looked into the eyes of their dream, and by looking, destroyed it.
Because, behind those shadowed, perfect lids, there was—Nothing.
The end
About the Author
Leigh Douglass Brackett Hamilton (1915-1978) was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Brackett was first published in her mid-twenties. Her first published science fiction story was "Martian Quest", which appeared in the February 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. Her earliest years as a writer (1940–1942) were her most productive in numbers of stories written.
In 1946, Brackett married science fiction author Edmond Hamilton.
Most of Brackett's science fiction can be characterized as space opera or planetary romance. Almost all of her planetary romances take place within a common invented universe, the Leigh Brackett Solar System, which contains richly detailed fictional versions of the consensus Mars and Venus of science fiction in the 1930s–1950s. Mars thus appears as a marginally habitable desert world, populated by ancient, decadent, and mostly humanoid races; Venus as a primitive, wet jungle planet, occupied by vigorous, primitive tribes and reptilian monsters.
Brackett worked on the screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back. The movie won the Hugo Award in 1981.
Other works by Leigh Brackett:
Queen of the Martian Catacombs
Black Amazon of Mars
The Road to Sinharat
The Secret of Sinharat
People of the Talisman
The Book of Skaith: The Adventures of Eric John Stark
Shadow Over Mars
The Nemesis from Terra
The Sword of Rhiannon
Sea-Kings of Mars
Star Wars Universe
The Starmen
The Starmen of Llyrdis
The Starmen
The Long Tomorrow
The Big Jump
Alpha Centauri or Die!
A World Is Born
The Vanishing Venusians
No Good from a Corpse
Stranger at Home (as by George Sanders)
An Eye for an Eye
The Tiger Among Us
Rio Bravo
Follow the Free Wind
Silent Partner
Martian Quest
The Treasure of Ptakuth
The Tapestry Gate
The Stellar Legion
The Demons of Darkside
Water Pirate
The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter
Interplanetary Reporter
Lord of the Earthquake
No Man's Land in Space
A World Is Born
Retreat to the Stars
The Sorcerer of Rhiannon
Child of the Sun
Child of the Green Light
Out of the Sea
Cube from Space
Outpost on Io
Red-Headed Poison
Murder in the Family
The Misfortune Teller
The Halfling
Citadel of Lost Ships
The Blue Behemoth
Yhralls of the Endless Night
Design For Dying
I Feel Bad Killing You
No Star Is Lost
The Jewel of Bas
The Veil of Astellar
Terror Out of Space
Murder Is Bigamy
The Vanishing Venusians
Lorelei of the Red Mist (with Ray Bradbury)
The Moon that Vanished
The Beast-Jewel of Mars
The Sword of Rhiannon
Quest of the Starhope
The Lake of the Gone Forever
The Dancing Girl of Ganymede
The Truants
The Citadel of Lost Ages
The Woman from Altair
The Shadows
The Last Days of Shandakor
Shannach - The Last
The Ark of Mars
Mars Minus Bisha
Runaway
Teleportress of Alpha C
The Tweener
Last Call from Sector 9G
So Pale, So Cold, So Fair
The Queer Ones
All the Colors of the Rainbow
Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon
The True Death of Juanito Rodriguez
Come Sing the Moons of Moravenn
How Bright the Stars
Mommies and Daddies
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