Space Mowgli [SEP] series
Space Mowgli
Space Mowgli, also known as The Kid (Russian title: Малыш, "Malysh"), is a 1971 science fiction novel by Russian writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, set in the Noon Universe.
Plot summary.
The novel describes the "Ark Project" of 2160 and the first (and last) contact with Ark Megaforms. The story is told by "Stanislav Popov", a technician of the ER-2 team, one of the twelve ecologist teams that were working on Ark to prepare the
Eric John Stark
Eric John Stark is a character created by the science fiction author Leigh Brackett. Stark is the hero of a series of pulp adventures set in a time when the Solar System has been colonized. His origin-story shares some characteristics with feral characters such as Mowgli and Tarzan; his adventures take place in the shared space opera planets of 1940s and 1950s science fiction.
Back-story.
Stark was born on Mercury. His parents were employees of the mineral extraction company Mercury Metals and Mining.