Kevin Burton Smith" <
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com>
> >George, Leigh Brackett wrote a whole lot of
sci-fi along with her little
> >bit of great hardboiled. I haven't read any of
her sci-fi, so I can't
> >tell you which book you've read.
>
> A lot of her sci-fi stuff is supposedly very space
opera-ish, sorta
> like STAR WARS. Which probably helped her land the
gig co-writing THE
> EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, which is still the best of the
STAR WARS flicks.
> --
Kevin, She was married to Edmond Hamilton, a writer of pulp
sf in the 30's and 40's. I don't know of a book published
under both their names, but she must have been at least
influenced by him. I've read a lot of her sf. It's not really
space opera concerned with great forces, but more adventure
stories set in exotic locations with very little little
technology mentioned. One one hero battles the baddies
individually. A lot could be westerns except for the fact
they are set on Venus(a warm very wet world), Mars or another
planet not in the solar system. Wasn't she one of the writers
of Rio Bravo? Mark
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