The name Leigh Brackett is inscribed with a golden pen on the list of Great Masters of American Science Fiction. And one of the peaks of the famous writer’s work is undoubtedly a series of novels about Eric John Stark, an earthling from Mercury, an adventurer and a man of honor who knows how to stand up for himself and help a friend out of trouble - no matter what corner of the Universe the hero’s fate throws him into. In the heroic direction in world fiction, the Stark series is rightfully among the best of the best.