Publisher's Synopsis
No one had ever escaped from Venus' dread Stellar Legion. And as Thekla the low-Martian learned no one had ever betrayed it and-lived.Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first woman 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.
