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Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." [1] She wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973).
Leigh Brackett was a prolific and influential science fiction author and screenwriter, known for her work on The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, and Star Wars. She died in 1978 and was posthumously honored with the Nebula Grand Master Award in 2018.
May 21, 2021 · Learn how sci-fi legend Leigh Brackett shaped the sequel to Star Wars with her script, which introduced Yoda, Lando, and the ice planet Hoth. See the handwritten notes and crossed out lines from her original draft, which differed from the final film in some ways.
By Sven Mikulec The name Leigh Brackett, already surely familiar to every true fan of the literary genre of science fiction, is a name that should be celebrated by every film lover as well. Born exactly 101 years ago and often referred to as The Queen of Space Opera, she started writing and publishing.
Leigh Brackett was born on December 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, and raised near Santa Monica. Having spent her youth as an athletic tom-boy - playing volleyball and reading stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H Rider Haggard - she began writing fantastic adventures of her own.
A summatory collection, edited by her husband, The Best of Leigh Brackett (coll 1977), confirms the muscular panache of her work and its haunting refusal to transcend her ample competence; as do the non-Mars stories assembled in Shannach – The Last: Farewell to Mars (coll 2011), which contains all her late short work. Although advertised as ...
Sep 22, 2018 · A review of The Best of Leigh Brackett, a collection of stories by the Golden Age SF author and screenwriter. Learn about her style, themes, and influences in the subgenre of sword-and-science.
