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A Fantasy Masterwork Her swashbuckling but literate planetary romances blend sword and sorcery with space opera Leigh Brackett won an Oscar (posthumously) for her script for The Empire Strikes Back She wrote memorable scripts for Howard Hawks, including The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo She collaborated with many of the field's greats, including her husband Edmond Hamilton and Ray Bradbury

About the Author

Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was an accomplished and prolific writer of fantasy and SF, as well as a Hollywood screen writer (she received a posthumous Oscar for the script for The Empire Strikes Back). She was married to the SF writer Edmond Hamilton.