{"id":12186,"date":"2010-03-18T23:39:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T06:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=12186"},"modified":"2010-03-19T00:19:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T07:19:15","slug":"blue-tysons-leigh-brackett-ology-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/blue-tysons-leigh-brackett-ology-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Tyson’s Leigh Brackett (ology)<\/em> Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just a few short weeks after Leigh Brackett’s birthday last year, Blue Tyson<\/a> fired up the finest (and, so far, only) blog\/website dedicated to the Queen of Space Opera<\/a>. Tyson is an indefatigable Aussie sci-fi\/fantasy fan whose archival work in his favorite fields of literature became known to yours truly a few years back. This was due to several interesting posts he put up at The Official Robert E. Howard Forum<\/em>. One was an exhaustive listing of Sword-and-Sorcery heroes; another was a link to\u00a0Tyson’s cover gallery devoted to the fiction of Leigh Brackett.\u00a0Now that he’s had a few months to work on his project, I say that Tyson can take a bow and let the Interwebs behold the proud monument he has constructed in honor of Brackett on this,\u00a0the anniversary of her mortality.<\/p>\n

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For those of tentative temperament\u00a0who have yet to click on the link above, I will say that the set-up of Tyson’s site is a bit different than\u00a0some other blogs. This is due to the fact that the website functions not only as a blog wherein info on Brackett is posted regularly, but also as an archive.\u00a0Almost every\u00a0work of fiction by Leigh has an entry, as does just about everything else remotely Brackett-related. Curious about the various alcoholic beverages of Brackett’s Venus and Mars? There’s an entry<\/a>. Brackett-related artwork by diverse hands (like the Freas pic below)? Right here<\/a>. For Brackett newbies, Tyson provides numerous excerpts from her tales right there on the site. He\u00a0has also proffered\u00a0an extensive list of excerpts<\/a> to be found elsewhere on the ‘Net. In each case, it’s necessary to scroll down just a bit to get past the ever-present category tabs, but I feel that’s a small price to pay for the treasures Tyson has gathered.<\/p>\n

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Leigh Brackett was needing something like this. With much of her\u00a0fiction now back in print thanks to publishers like Planet Stories<\/a> and Haffner Press, the time seems ripe for giving her fans, old and new, someplace to dig deeper into her life and work.<\/p>\n

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