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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

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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: 3.74 · 13,210 ratings · 1,951 reviews · 399 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Long Tomorrow 3.68 avg rating — 2,809 ratings — published 1955 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sword of Rhiannon 3.53 avg rating — 978 ratings — published 1949 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ginger Star (The Book of Skaith, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1974	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Amazon of Mars 3.68 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1951 — 127 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hounds of Skaith (The Book of Skaith, #2) 3.76 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 1974 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reavers of Skaith (The Book of Skaith, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1976 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories (Fantasy Masterworks, #46) by Leigh Brackett, Stephen Jones (Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret of Sinharat 3.90 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Jump (Vintage Ace SF, G-683) 3.39 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1955 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eric John Stark: Outlaw of Mars 3.92 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Leigh Brackett (?)

“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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May June - Topic voting for groupreads (2 topics for 2 months usually) -- feel welcome to add to the list (via the write in option).

Read-n-Review "review-starved books" (any Sword & Sorcery book with less than ~15 Goodread reviews)

7 votes, 35.0%

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski (anything from the Witcher Series)

4 votes, 20.0%

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany

2 votes, 10.0%

Charles R. Saunders's Dossouye or The Quest for Cush

2 votes, 10.0%

The Sword of Rhiannon by Leigh Brackett

2 votes, 10.0%

Red Sonja: Red Sonja #1 by Gail Simone or The Ring of Ikribu by David C. Smith

2 votes, 10.0%

Gonji: Red Blade from the East by T.C. Rypel

1 vote, 5.0%

20 total votes

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