Leigh Brackett
Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American author, particularly of science fiction. She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on famous films such as The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
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... The Leigh Brackett Solar System is a fictional analogue to the real-world Solar System in which a majority of the planetary romances of Leigh Brackett ... Although Brackett's stories do not form a series with a consistent chronology and causally-connected incidents, more than half of them are recognizably set in the same universe a Solar System of the near future ... The stories of the Brackett Universe are bound together by shared terminology, place-names, "facts" about biology and culture, and occasionally shared characters ...
... The planet Mercury appears frequently as a setting for many of the stories of Leigh Brackett, and Mercury and Mercurians are frequently mentioned in other stories of the ... Brackett's Mercury shares some characteristics with the astronomical Mercury, but in other respects functions as a consistent fantasy world with recurring landmarks and ... Some of these fantasy characteristics are of Brackett's own invention others reflect some of the scientific theories about Mercury that were current ...
... of the United States A Bostonian's Idea of the United States LEIGH BRACKETT'S MARS - Based on the stories by Leigh Brackett LAND BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS - From Carol Kendall's The Gammage ... The Princess Bride THE WORLDS OF ERIK JOHN STARK - Based on the novels of Leigh Brackett Stark's Journey to the Citadel Stark's Return to Irnan Stark's and Gerrith's Journey to Iubar ...
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“Only a fully trained Jedi knight with the Force as his ally will conquer Vader and his emperor. If you end your training now—if you choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did—you will become an agent of evil.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
“The Force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
“J.P. Harrah: What the hell are you doin’ here?
Cole: I’m lookin’ at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
“Her I love. You I don’t even like.”
—Leigh Brackett, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Altman. Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell)
“I’d just as soon kiss a wookie.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)