Leigh Brackett
Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American author and screenwriter. Nicknamed "the Queen of Space Opera", she was one of the most prominent female writers during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. As a screenwriter, she was best known for her collaborations with director Howard Hawks, mainly writing Westerns and crime films.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Los Angeles
- Awards
- 🏆 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation🏆 Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame🏆 Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel🏆 Poussière Prize
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Trending topics shown first"“Aren’t you even curious?” he asked. “A million worlds out there with more wonders than I could tell you in a million years, and you don’t even want to ask a question?"
"Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith."
"Stark said wearily, “I don’t think you understand.” Normally he was tolerant of tribal fancies, but he felt no great tenderness for the Outdwellers. “The stars are already defiled. They’re only suns, …"
"Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth."
"I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove."
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1915
Born
Birth1978
Died
Death
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