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Leigh Brackett

Lifespan
1915 – 1978
Nationality
American
Active
1940 – 1963
Works held
19

Leigh Brackett (1915–1978) was one of the great figures of Golden Age science fiction, nicknamed the 'Queen of Space Opera' for her lush, romantic tales of a dying, sword-and-blaster Mars and Venus. She led a remarkable double life as a Hollywood screenwriter, working with Howard Hawks on films including The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo and The Long Goodbye, and, at the very end of her life, writing an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back. She was married to fellow SF writer Edmond Hamilton.

The works

  1. 1963
    Cover of The road to Sinharat The road to Sinharat
  2. 1955
    Cover of Last Call From Sector 9G Last Call From Sector 9G
  3. 1952
    Cover of Shannach—The Last Shannach—The Last Cover of The starmen The starmen
  4. 1951
    Cover of Black Amazon of Mars Black Amazon of Mars
  5. 1949
    Cover of Enchantress of Venus Enchantress of Venus Cover of Queen of the Martian Catacombs Queen of the Martian Catacombs
  6. 1948
    Cover of The Beast-Jewel of Mars The Beast-Jewel of Mars
  7. 1945
    Cover of The Vanishing Venusians The Vanishing Venusians
  8. 1944
    Cover of Terror Out of Space Terror Out of Space
  9. 1943
    Cover of Citadel of Lost Ships Citadel of Lost Ships Cover of The Blue Behemoth The Blue Behemoth Cover of Thralls of the Endless Night Thralls of the Endless Night
  10. 1942
    Cover of Child of the Sun Child of the Sun Cover of Out of the sea Out of the sea Cover of Outpost on Io Outpost on Io
  11. 1941
    Cover of A World is Born A World is Born Cover of The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter
  12. 1940
    Cover of The Stellar Legion The Stellar Legion

Wrote across

1940s1950s1960s

Recurring themes

Space OperaAdventureColonizationPost-ApocalypticMilitary SFHorrorLost World

Kindred authors shared themes

Nelson S. BondRobert Moore WilliamsStephen MarloweBryce WaltonEdgar Rice BurroughsRay BradburyRaymond Z. GallunRobert Sheckley

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettGeorge O. SmithStephen MarloweMurray LeinsterBryce WaltonNelson S. BondH. Beam PiperMack ReynoldsAlan Edward NourseFritz Leiber

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