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Leigh Brackett

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Leigh Brackett


Born
in Los Angeles, CA, The United States
December 07, 1915

Died
March 18, 1978

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


Leigh Brackett was born on December 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, and raised near Santa Monica. Having spent her youth as an athletic tom-boy - playing volleyball and reading stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H Rider Haggard - she began writing fantastic adventures of her own. Several of these early efforts were read by Henry Kuttner, who critiqued her stories and introduced her to the SF personalities then living in California, including Robert Heinlein, Julius Schwartz, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton - and another aspiring writer, Ray Bradbury.

In 1944, based on the hard-boiled dialogue in her first novel, No Good From a Corpse, producer/director Howard Hawks hired Brackett to collaborate with William Faulkner on the screenplay of Raymond C ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 13,487 ratings · 1,999 reviews · 403 distinct works • Similar authors
The Long Tomorrow
3.68 avg rating — 2,858 ratings — published 1955 — 43 editions
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The Sword of Rhiannon
3.54 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 1949 — 2 editions
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The Ginger Star (The Book o...
3.73 avg rating — 582 ratings — published 1974 — 27 editions
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The Hounds of Skaith (The B...
3.76 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 1974 — 27 editions
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Black Amazon of Mars
3.68 avg rating — 399 ratings — published 1951 — 128 editions
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The Reavers of Skaith (The...
3.71 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1976 — 19 editions
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The Secret of Sinharat
3.90 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions
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The Big Jump (Vintage Ace S...
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Eric John Stark: Outlaw of ...
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Series by Leigh Brackett

The Ginger Star The Hounds of Skaith The Reavers of Skaith
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Quotes by Leigh Brackett  (?)
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“Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.”
― Leigh Brackett
tags: science
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“No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.”
― Leigh Brackett, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
tags: star-wars
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“There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.”
― Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
tags: evil, rationalization
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