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But instead of heading to Hollywood after the end of the pulps, Edmond ended his long career at DC Comics. She died from cancer in 1978, but not before turning in the first draft script for what would become ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. Although her script was rewritten by others, many key elements remain.

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…he told his secretary to “get this guy Brackett.” She then left for Hollywood, leaving a half-finished tale for ‘Planet Stories’, ‘Lorelei of the Red Mist’. She asked her good friend to complete it for her, which Ray Bradbury did seamlessly. Her husband was another SF/F writer of the era, Edmond Hamilton.

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The great science fiction writer Leigh Brackett was

The “Queen of Space Opera” wrote SF/F for the pulps of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1944 she wrote her first mystery novel, which came to the attention of legendary director Howard Hawks. When Hawks needed help on an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’…

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One of Leigh Brackett’s novels of her original hero Eric John Stark, People of the Talisman, reprinted by French publisher J'ai Lu in the 1970s.
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Leigh Brackett’s sword-and-planet adventure The Sword of Rhiannon was published in book form in 1953. It had been serialised in Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1949, as Sea-Kings of Mars.

The Mars of this story is now largely a desert planet but it had a glorious past and was once green and lush.

There's an ambiguous hero. And there's a beautiful but evil queen, always a plus.

My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

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d4doome · @d4doome
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Another of my obsessions is sword-and-planet fiction. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Leigh Brackett, Poul Anderson and Catherine L. Moore's Northwest Smith stories being my favourites. Sword-and-planet fiction is basically sword-and-sorcery with science fiction elements in place of magic.

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