![]() ![]() Review copy courtesy of The Library of America.įor me, one of the most striking things about this science fiction novel is its opening third, which has a near complete lack of technology. I was excited, then, to find her book The Long Tomorrow (1955) (with its Chandleresque title) in The Library of America’s box set American Science Fiction: Classic Novels of the 1950s, a set that just keeps getting better. And, perhaps most famously these days, before she died in 1978, she completed the first draft of George Lucas’s The Empire Strikes Back (though she died before she had a chance to revise it and her draft was substantially rewritten by both Lucas and Lawrence Kasdun (you can see her script online here, where you might be surprised to meet Minch rather than Yoda, as well as the ghost of Luke’s father - that’s right, it isn’t Darth Vader yet)). She returned to Raymond Chandler in 1973, writing the screenplay for Robert Altman’s film adaptation of The Long Goodbye. In 1959, she worked with Hawks again on his 1959 film Rio Bravo, one of my favorites. ![]() In 1946 she worked with William Faulkner on Howard Hawks’ film adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. ![]() I only knew her through her screenwriting credits. I have to admit that I didn’t know Leigh Brackett was a renowned science fiction author. ![]()
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