History Creator / LeighBrackett

She created her own {{Verse}} for her {{Planetary Romance}}s, the ''Leigh Brackett Solar System''. More than half her stories are set in a (mostly) internally consistent parallel of our solar system with human settlers and alien cultures on Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Asteroids, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. During the [[TheForties 1940s]] and [[TheFifties 1950s]] her stories described worlds consistent with early theories about the habitability of the planets, but in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] when the Mariner space probes started to bring back data about Mars, Venus and Mercury that made the premise of life on those planets utterly implausible she used her Verse less often and eventually stopped writing such stories in 1964. In the [[TheSeventies 1970s]] she invented an "extra-solar" planet, Skaith, where Eric John Stark could have his later adventures.

Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and much later ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying; it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan (the film is dedicated to her, although very little of her first draft remains in the finished script)[[/note]]). She has been called the "Queen of SpaceOpera."

Leigh Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and much later ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying; it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan (the film is dedicated to her, although very little of her first draft remains in the finished script)[[/note]]). She has been called the "Queen of SpaceOpera."

Leigh Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978)was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and much later ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying; it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan (the film is dedicated to her, although very little of her first draft remains in the finished script)[[/note]]). She has been called the "Queen of SpaceOpera."

Leigh Brackett was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and much later ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying; it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan (the film is dedicated to her, although very little of her first draft remains in the finished script)[[/note]]). She has been called the "Queen of SpaceOpera."

As the market for pulp fiction evaporated in the 1950s she switched to a successful career of writing for film and television, occasionally revisiting her SF milieus in novels (some of which reworked earlier short stories), especially near the end of her life in the late 1970s. She died of cancer in 1978.

Leigh Brackett was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and much later ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying (the film is dedicated to her); it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan[[/note]]). She has been called the "Queen of SpaceOpera."

Leigh Brackett was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying in 1978 (the film is dedicated to her); it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan[[/note]]). She has been called the "Queen of SpaceOpera."

Leigh Brackett was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying in 1978 (the film is dedicated to her); it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan[[/note]]). She has been called the "Queen of Space Opera."

As the market for pulp fiction evaporated in the 1950s she switched to a successful career of writing for film and television, occasionally revisiting her SF milieus in novels (some of which reworked earlier short stories), especially near the end of her life in the late 1970s. She died in cancer in 1978.

Leigh Brackett was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' and ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying in 1978 (the film is dedicated to her); it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan[[/note]]).

She created her own {{Verse}} for her {{Planetary Romance}}s, the ''Leigh Brackett Solar System''. More than half her stories are set in a (mostly) internally consistent parallel of our solar system with human settlers and alien cultures on Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Asteroids, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. During the [[TheForties 1940s]] and [[TheFifties 1950s]] her stories described worlds consistent with early theories about the habitability of the planets, but in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] when the Mariner space probes started to bring back data about Mars, Venus and Mercury that made the premise of life on those planets utterly implausible she used her Verse less often and eventually stopped writing such stories in 1964. In the [[TheSeventies 1970s]] she invented an "extra-solar" planet, Skaith, where Eric John Stark could have his later adventures.

She wrote most of her stories (short stories and novelettes) for pulp magazines, but also wrote several novels. Quite a few stories feature

She created her own {{Verse}} for her {{Planetary Romance}}s, the ''Leigh Brackett Solar System''. More than half her stories are set in a (mostly) internally consistent parallel of our solar system with human settlers and alien cultures on Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Asteroids, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. During the [[TheForties 1940s]] and [[TheFifties 1950s]] her stories described worlds consistent with early theories about the habitability of the planets, but in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] when the Mariner space probes started to bring back data about Mars, Venus and Mercury that made the premise of life on those planets utterly implausible she used her Verse less often and eventually stopped writing such stories in 1964.

She created her own {{Verse}} for her {{Planetary Romance}}s, the ''Leigh Brackett Solar System''.

Leigh Brackett was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. d ''Film/TheBigSleep'' an''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying in 1978 (the film is dedicated to her); it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan[[/note]]).

Leigh Brackett was an American science fiction (and sometimes crime/western) author and Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying in 1978; it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan[[/note]]).

Leigh Brackett was an American science fiction (and some crime/western) author and screenwriter (e.g. ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''[[note]]which she wrote a first draft for before dying in 1978; it was later re-written by Creator/LawrenceKasdan[[/note]]).