Henry Carter Hull

"Amazing Stories Volume 24 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five stories by Leigh Brackett: "Terror Out of Space", "The Blue Behemoth", "Thralls of the Endless Night", "The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter", and "Child of the Sun"."--

Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915-1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the first woman ever shortlisted for the

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Leigh Brackett may be best known for her screenplay for "The Empire Strikes Back," but her lush tales of interplanetary adventures were thrilling readers long before "Star Wars." Collected here are the short novel "Black Amazon of Mars" (the final magazine appearance of her hero, Eric John Stark), as well as "A World Is Born" and "Child of the Sun."

Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915-1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the first woman ever shortlisted for the

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Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915-1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the first woman ever shortlisted for the

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Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four stories by Leigh Brackett: "Outpost on Io", "Citadel of Lost Ships", "The Jewel of Bas", and "The Vanishing Venusians".

Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three stories by Leigh Brackett: "Last Call From Sector 9G", "The Beast-Jewel Of Mars", and "Enchantress of Venus".

In a crystalline death lay the only release for those prisoners of that Ionian hell-outpost. Yet MacVickers and the men had to escape-for to remain meant the conquering of the Solar System by the inhuman Europans. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly...

The people of Mars were perverse. They did not want Earth's proffer of rich land, much water, new power. They fought rehabilitation. And with them fought Carey, the Earthman who wanted only the secret that lay at the end of the road to Sinharat. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft...

Out there in the green star system; far beyond the confining grip of the Federation, moved the feared Bitter Star, for a thousand frigid years the dark and sinister manipulator of war-weary planets. Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her...