Rest in the Force, 𝗟𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘁. She wrote the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back. She was also known as a science fiction fantasy author and for the movies The Big Sleep, El Dorado, and Rio Bravo.
#StarWars #LeighBrackett #TheEmpireStrikesBack #Lucasfilm #Writer #Disney
#bookhooks
#firstlineFriday
#bookbeginnings
#Friday56
#vintagescifimonth
Alpha Centauri or Die, #scifi by #Leighbrackett
VERDICT:
What we mean by intelligence and should be ready to confront if we price freedom. The freedom to be humans and not parts of a machine.
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Alpha Centauri or Die, by #LeighBrackett (1963) #scifi #sciencefiction wordsandpeace.com/2026/01/11/s...
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You all take chances, Kurt. That’s part of the job.”
Michele Girardon in Hatari!
#Hatari #Hawks #HowardHawks #LeighBrackett #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
Frank Kelly Freas. Endpaper illustration from Leigh Brackett, Lorelei of the Red Mist, Haffner Press, 2007. #FrankKellyFreas #LeighBrackett
Frank Kelly Freas. Endpaper illustration from Leigh Brackett, Lorelei of the Red Mist, Haffner Press, 2007. #FrankKellyFreas #LeighBrackett
#Writing ✍️ #Quote 💬 of the Day: 🗓️
#LeighBrackett 👑🪐🚀📖
#BookSky 📚
#bookchallenge 🔎 📙
#writingcommunity 🏘️
#writers ✍️
#authors 📖
#readers 👀
##WeeknightWriters 🌘🖥️
#booklovers 💕📗💕
#readingcommunity 🏘️👀📖
#writersky 📝
#5amwritersclub 🌄🖊️
#6amwritersclub 🌇🖊️
#writerscoffeeclub🧋
#gamedev 🎮
#indiedev 🛠️
#scifi🪐
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You want that gun, pick it up. I wish you would.”
John Wayne in Rio Bravo
#RioBravo #Hawks #HowardHawks #JohnWayne #LeighBrackett #JulesFurthman
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
Today we celebrate the birthday of Leigh Brackett, born today in 1915. An American science fiction writer called "the Queen of Space Opera", along with her own work she also worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back. #LeighBrackett
Foto von zwei Büchern von Leigh Brackett: "Das lange Morgen" und "Schwelende Rebellion"
Leigh Brackett hat Drehbücher für Western (Rio Bravo, El Dorado) und einen gewissen Film namens "Das Imperium schlägt zurück" verfasst. Darüber hinaus viele coole SF-Storys und -Romane, einige davon gerade vom Carcosa Verlag ganz neu aufgelegt.
Heute vor 110 Jahren wurde sie geboren!
#LeighBrackett
Remembering 𝗟𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘁 on what would have been her 110th birthday. She wrote the first draft of what would be known as The Empire Strikes Back and was also known for The Big Sleep, El Dorado, and The Long Goodbye.
#StarWars #LeighBrackett #TheEmpireStrikesBack #Lucasfilm
Thrilling Wonder Stories (UK) Vol. 1 No. 3, June 1950 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.). #ThrillingWonderStories #1950s #PulpFiction #cover #coverart #artwork #LeighBrackett #WallaceWest #AtlasPublishingAndDistributingCoLtd
4:10pm TODAY on #GreatAction
The 1967 #Western film🎥 “El Dorado” directed by #HowardHawks from a screenplay by #LeighBrackett
Very loosely based on #HarryBrown’s 1960 novel📖 “The Stars in Their Courses”
🌟 #JohnWayne #RobertMitchum #JamesCaan #CharleneHolt #PaulFix #ArthurHunnicutt #MicheleCarey
Pictured is the book On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson. The black-and-white cover art shows a partially opened door leading to a shadowed staircase with a key dangling from a string in the corner.
The banner for "Looking Back on Genre History with Amy H. Sturgis on StarShipSofa" with retrofuturist artwork showing a rocket in space.
On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa podcast (Episode 760), I discuss the new book On Edge: #Gender and #Genre in the Work of #ShirleyJackson, #PatriciaHighsmith, and #LeighBrackett by #AshleyLawson.
Here is the link […]
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2:45pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1954 #FilmNoir #Mystery #Drama film🎥 “The Stranger Came Home” (aka “The Unholy Four” & “The Stranger”)
Based on the 1946 novel📖 “Stranger at Home” by actor #GeorgeSanders (but ghostwritten by #LeighBrackett)
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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m lookin’ at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it.”
John Wayne in Rio Bravo
#RioBravo #Hawks #HowardHawks #JohnWayne #JulesFurthman #LeighBrackett #moviequotes
#MovieQuoteOfTheDay
18 March 1978 #TodayinStarWarsHistory Remembering on this day the “Queen of Space Opera”, Leigh Brackett. Her career ended with the first draft of “Star Wars Sequel,” what we today call The Empire Strikes Back. #TheEmpireStrikesBack #LeighBrackett
Remembering 𝗟𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘁, who wrote the first draft of what would eventually be named The Empire Strikes Back. She was also known as a science fiction fantasy author and for the movies The Big Sleep, El Dorado, and Rio Bravo.
#StarWars #LeighBrackett #TheEmpireStrikesBack #Lucasfilm
Pictured is the book On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson. The black-and-white cover art shows a partially opened door leading to a shadowed staircase with a key dangling from a string in the corner.
Happy International Women's Day. Here’s a new book I’m looking forward to devouring with relish. #ShirleyJackson #PatriciaHighsmith #LeighBrackett #Gender #Genre #AshleyLawson #iwd2025
Sense of Wonder : Le Peuple du talisman de Leigh Brackett (1964) !
Ne passez pas à côté de ce roman !
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#LeighBrackett
Planet Stories - Spring 1944 (Fiction House)
Cover by Graham Ingels. Contains "The Jewel of Bas" by Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back co-writer Leigh Brackett.
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#TerrorByNight #PlanetStories #ClassicHorror #VintageHorror #LeighBrackett #MonsterKid
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11am TODAY on @Film4
The 1967 #Western film🎥 “El Dorado” directed by #HowardHawks from a screenplay by #LeighBrackett
Very loosely based on #HarryBrown’s 1960 novel📖 “The Stars in Their Courses”
🌟 #JohnWayne #RobertMitchum #JamesCaan #CharleneHolt #PaulFix
12:45pm TODAY on @TalkingPicsTV
The 1954 #FilmNoir #Mystery #Drama film🎥 “The Stranger Came Home” (aka “The Unholy Four” & “The Stranger”)
Based on the 1946 novel📖 “Stranger at Home” by actor #GeorgeSanders (but ghostwritten by #LeighBrackett)
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10:55am TODAY on @bbctwo.bsky.social
👉 joint #TVFilmOfTheDay
The 1946 #FilmNoir #Crime #Mystery film🎥 “The Big Sleep” directed by #HowardHawks from a screenplay by #WilliamFaulkner #LeighBrackett & #JulesFurthman
Based on #RaymondChandler’s 1939 novel📖
🌟 #HumphreyBogart #LaurenBacall
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J'ai été choqué par l'algorithme de @bsky.app quand il a censuré cette image issue d'un "western classique" d'Howard #Hawks, Rio Lobo (1970)
(Est-ce parce que le fusil est tenu par une des Femmes Puissantes de ce film coscénarisé par #LeighBrackett ?)
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La place que donne le grand Howard #Hawks à ses héroïnes féminines : la Première !
Ce sont les seules adultes face à des ados montés en graine qui se la jouent "mecs virils"
Ici #AngieDickinson face à (et dominant) #JohnWayne dans #RioBravo
(mon vote)
Coscénariste, la géniale #LeighBrackett
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Born #OTD was the great #LeighBrackett. I discuss her #TheLongTomorrow in my classes. It was a thrill to see her script of #TheEmpireStrikesBack at the Ray Bradbury Museum. #SFF #ScienceFiction
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Leigh Brackett - photo from Wikipedia
Happy Birthday to Leigh Brackett, the Queen of Space Opera who wrote cowboys, crime, AND The Empire Strikes Back! She went from Mars to Cloud City before space travel was cool. Somewhere in the multiverse, she's still crafting galactic westerns. 🌟🚀 #LeighBrackett #ScienceFiction #SpaceWestern
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Ashley Lawson's new book questions distinctions between "genre" and "literature" to rethink the canon and cast women's contributions to postwar American lit in new light.
#WomenWriters #LiteraryCriticism
#20thCentury #PatriciaHighsmith #ShirleyJackson #LeighBrackett
Let’s never forget Leigh Brackett, a trailblazer in science fiction and film. She wrote The Big Sleep script and the first draft of The Empire Strikes Back. Though she passed away soon after, her legacy lives on. #LeighBrackett #SciFiLegend #StarWars #WomenInFilm
