Leigh Douglass Brackett

Leigh Douglass Brackett
Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915–1978) was an American writer best known for her work in science fiction and screenwriting. She gained fame for her planetary adventure stories, particularly the "Eric John Stark" series, and her novel "The Long Tomorrow," a post-apocalyptic tale. Brackett also co-wrote screenplays for major films, including "The Big Sleep" with William Faulkner and the first draft of "The Empire Strikes Back." Her writing seamlessly blended pulp adventure with complex characters and settings, making her a significant figure in both literature and cinema.

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Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. Tom Ward, working beside him, glanced at Gray's Indianesque profile, the youth of it hardened by war and the hells of the Eros prison blocks. A quick flash of satisfaction crossed Ward's dark eyes. Then he grinned and said mockingly. "Hell of a place to spend the rest of your life, ain't it?" Mel Gray... more...

Through all the long cold hours of the Norland night the Martian had not moved nor spoken. At dusk of the day before Eric John Stark had brought him into the ruined tower and laid him down, wrapped in blankets, on the snow. He had built a fire of dead brush, and since then the two men had waited, alone in the vast wasteland that girdles the polar cap of Mars. Now, just before dawn, Camar the Martian... more...