Leigh Brackett

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Why Is Leigh Brackett Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep , Rio Bravo , and The Long Goodbye . She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back , 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 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and, along with C. L. Moore, one of the first two women ever nominated for a Hugo Award. In 2020, she posthumously won a Retro Hugo for her novel The Nemesis From Terra, originally published as Shadow Over Mars .

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What Are Leigh Brackett's Academic Contributions?

Leigh Brackett has made the following academic contributions:

• The Sword of Rhiannon
• The Stellar Legion
• The Starmen
• The Secret of Sinharat
• The Long Tomorrow
• The Big Jump
• Shadow Over Mars
• Child of the Sun
• Alpha Centauri or Die!