Mercury is a lush, hot world. Mel Grey and a group of pioneers and prisoners are working hard to make the planet habitable for man kind. But there are those who would have the world all for themselves. Romance and adventure await Mel Grey on this savage planet
Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. Tom Ward, working beside him, glanced at Gray's Indianesque profile, the youth of it hardened by war and the hells of the Eros prison blocks. A quick flash of satisfaction...
Experience the grand sweep of interstellar adventure with Leigh Douglass Brackett's "A World is Born," a classic of space opera. Embark on a thrilling journey of planet colonization, where humanity reaches for the stars and carves out new lives among alien worlds. Brackett,...