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Contents.Life Leigh Brackett was born December 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, California, and grew up there. On December 31, 1946, at age 31, she married in, and moved with him to. She died of cancer in 1978 in. Career Fiction writer Brackett first published in her mid-20s; the science fiction story 'Martian Quest' appeared in the February 1940 issue of. Her earliest years as a writer (1940–42) were her most productive. Some of her stories have social themes, such as 'The Citadel of Lost Ships' (1943), which considers the effects on the native cultures of alien worlds of Earth's expanding trade empire.

During this period, she was also an active member of the (LASFS), and participated in local in other ways, including contributing to the second issue of Pogo's STF-ETTE, an all-female (probably the first such). Brackett's first detective story, 'Murder in the Family', was published in in 1943.Brackett's first novel, No Good from a Corpse (1944), was a mystery novel in the tradition of (The book resulted in her getting her first big screenwriting assignment.) After this, Brackett's science fiction stories became more ambitious. Shadow Over Mars (1944) was her first novel-length science fiction story; though somewhat rough-edged, it marked the beginning of a new style.

This was strongly influenced by the characterization of the 1940s detective story. In 1946, Brackett married fellow science fiction author (fellow LASFS member served as best man). Published the novella 'Lorelei of the Red Mist', in which the protagonist is a thief called Hugh Starke.

Brackett finished the first half before turning it over to, so that she could leave to work on the screenplay of the movie, based on a Chandler novel.Brackett returned to science fiction writing after her movie work, in 1948. From then on to 1951, she produced a series of science fiction adventure stories that were longer than her previous work, including such classic representations of her planetary settings as 'The Moon that Vanished' and the novel Sea-Kings of Mars (1949). The latter was later published as The Sword of Rhiannon, a vivid description of Mars before its oceans evaporated.In 'Queen of the Martian Catacombs' (1949), Brackett created the character of. Stark, an orphan from Earth, is raised by the semi-sentient aboriginals of Mercury, who are later killed by Earthmen. He is saved by a Terran official, who adopts Stark and becomes his mentor. When threatened, Stark reverts to the primitive N'Chaka, the 'man without a tribe', who he was on Mercury.

From 1949 to 1951, Brackett featured Stark (whose name echoes that of the hero in 'Lorelei of the Red Mist') in three stories published in Planet Stories: 'Queen of the Martian Catacombs', 'Enchantress of Venus', and 'Black Amazon of Mars'. With this last story, Brackett's high adventure period of writing ended.Brackett adopted an elegiac tone in her stories, no longer celebrating the conflicts of frontier worlds but lamenting the passing of civilizations, and concentrating more on mood than plot.

The reflective, introspective nature of these stories is indicated in the titles: 'The Last Days of Shandakor', 'Shannach — the Last', and 'Last Call from Sector 9G'.' Last Call' was published in the final issue (Summer 1955) of, which had been her most reliable publisher. After Planet Stories folded, and later in 1955, and, Brackett had lost all of her magazine market. The first phase of her career as a science fiction author ended. She did produce other stories over the next decade, and revised and published some as novels.A new production of this period was (1955), one of Brackett's more critically acclaimed science fiction novels.

This novel describes an agrarian, technophobic society that develops after a nuclear war.After 1955, Brackett concentrated writing for the more lucrative film and television markets. In 1963 and 1964, she briefly returned to her old Martian milieu with a pair of stories. 'The Road to Sinharat' can be regarded as an affectionate farewell to the world of 'Queen of the Martian Catacombs', and the other – with the intentionally ridiculous title of 'Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon' – borders on parody.Brackett and her husband shared Guest of Honor duties at the in 1965 in Oakland, California.After another hiatus of nearly a decade, Brackett returned to science fiction in the 1970s with the publication of The Ginger Star (1974), The Hounds of Skaith (1974) and The Reavers of Skaith (1976), collected as The Book of Skaith in 1976. This trilogy brought Eric John Stark back for adventures upon the extra-solar planet of Skaith (rather than his old haunts of Mars and Venus).Brackett's Solar System Often referred to as the 'Queen of ', Brackett also wrote. Almost all of her planetary romances take place in the Leigh Brackett Solar System, which contains richly detailed fictional versions of the consensus Mars and Venus of science fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s. Mars appears as a marginally habitable desert world, populated by ancient, decadent and mostly humanoid races; Venus as a primitive, wet jungle planet, occupied by vigorous, primitive tribes and reptilian monsters. Brackett's Skaith combines elements of her other worlds with fantasy elements.Though the influence of is apparent in Brackett's Mars stories, her Mars is set firmly in a world of interplanetary commerce and competition.

A prominent theme of her stories is the clash of; the stories illustrate and criticize the effects of on civilizations that are either older or younger than those of the colonizers. Burroughs' heroes set out to remake entire worlds according to their own codes; Brackett's heroes (often ) are at the mercy of trends and movements far bigger than they are.After the proved there was no life on Mars, she never returned to her solar system.

When she started to write planetary romance again in the 70s, she invented a new solar system outside our own. Screenwriter Shortly after Brackett broke into science fiction writing, she wrote her first screenplays. Hollywood director was so impressed by her novel No Good from a Corpse that he had his secretary call in 'this guy Brackett' to help write the script for (1946). The film was written by Brackett, and, and starred.

It is considered one of the best movies ever made in the genre.After getting married, Brackett took a long break from screenwriting. When she returned to screenwriting in the mid-1950s, she wrote for TV and movies.

Howard Hawks hired her to write or co-write several pictures, including , (1962), (1966), and (1970). Because of her background with The Big Sleep, she later adapted Raymond Chandler's novel for the screen.The Empire Strikes Back Brackett worked on the screenplay for, the first sequel.

The film won the in 1981. This script was a departure for Brackett, as until then, all of her science fiction had been in the form of novels and short stories. Said that he asked Brackett to write the screenplay based on his story outline. Brackett wrote a finished first draft titled ' Star Wars sequel', which was delivered to Lucas shortly before her death from cancer on March 18, 1978; however, her version was rejected and two drafts of a new screenplay were written by Lucas and, following the delivery of the screenplay for, turned over to to rework some dialogues. Both Brackett and Kasdan (though not Lucas) were given credit for the final screenplay. Brackett was credited in tribute despite the fact that she wasn't involved in the final result of the film.Laurent Bouzereau, in Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, said that Lucas disliked the direction of Brackett's screenplay, discarded it, and produced two more screenplays before turning the results over to Kasdan. 's co-founder has written that while 'It's fashionable to disparage Brackett's contributions to Empire', 'it's not true that none of Brackett's storyline winds up in the final movie — the basic story beats are the same.'

For over 30 years, Brackett's screenplay could only be read at the Special Collections library at in and the archives at in California. However, Brackett's abandoned screenplay was officially published on February, 2016. In this draft, there was a love triangle between Luke, Leia and Han Solo. Yoda was named Minch, Luke has an hidden sister named Nellith, Lando Calrissian was known as Lando Kaddar, Anakin Skywalker was still a distinct character from Darth Vader and appears as a Force ghost on Dagobah, and also Han Solo at the end of the script is leaving to search for his uncle Ovan Marek, the most powerful man in the universe after the Emperor Palpatine.John Saavedra of website says:Most importantly, you see that Brackett's draft, while definitely in need of a rewrite and several tweaks, holds all of the big moments we'd eventually see on screen. We still get a version of the Battle of Hoth (a much more ridiculous one), the wise words of an old Jedi Master, the excitement of zooming through a deadly asteroid field, a love triangle (a MUCH more overt one), a majestic city in the clouds, unexpected betrayals, and the climactic duel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader that we would reenact on playgrounds for years to come. Bibliography aboutLeigh Brackett.By Leigh Brackett. Brackett's novella 'Last Call from Sector 9G' was the cover story in the final issue of Planet Stories in 1955, illustrated.

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