The Starmen
 Dust-jacket from the first edition | |
| Author | Leigh Brackett |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Ric Binkley |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 247 pp |
| OCLC | 1722293 |
The Starmen is a science fiction novel by author Leigh Brackett. It was published in 1952 by Gnome Press in an edition of 5,000 copies. It was also published by Ballantine Books in 1976 under the original magazine title of The Starmen of Llyrdis. Ace Books published an abridged edition under the title The Galactic Breed. The Ace edition was published as an Ace Double with Conquest of the Space Sea by Robert Moore Williams. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Startling Stories in 1951.
Plot introduction
The novel is a space opera concerning the only race that is able to endure the rigors of interstellar travel.
Reception
Boucher and McComas gave the novel a lukewarm review, describing it as "an able job of writing a completely routine and uncreative space opera."[1]
References
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 301.
- Corrick, James A. (1989). Double Your Pleasure: the ACE SF Double. Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books. pp. 18–19. ISBN 0-936071-21-4.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 61. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.