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good story about a female alien that was brought to earth, and i wont give any spoilers of the story because that would spoil it, . . i really did enjoy the story, it really feels like a modern twist of when Columbus went to America.
Leigh Brackett was a wonderful writer with vivid scenes and characters with depth,
About the novelette The Woman From Altair: beware the wrath of a woman taken against her will, especially one with psychic powers.
Two classic novelettes of interstellar love and betrayal, and one story about simple betrayal by Leigh Brackett.
The Woman From AltairAhrian was a fragile creature yet beneath her feminine softness lurked the steel purpose of bitter dedication!
Chapter I Ahrian
Chapter II Stranger on Earth
Chapter III Gifts of Love
Chapter IV Star Dreams
Chapter V About Altair
Chapter VI The Last Magic
The Stellar LegionNo one had ever escaped from Venus' dread Stellar Legion.
And as Thekla the lowMartian learned, no one had ever betrayed itand lived
The Last Days of ShandakorAn Earthman finds love and tragedy in a longdead city of ancient Mars that denies death.
A novelette in six chapters, Leigh Brackett
was born on December,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, 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 Leigh Brackett was born on December,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, 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 Chandler's The Big Sleep.
Brackett maintained an on again/off again relationship with Hollywood for the remainder of her life, Between writing screenplays for such films as Rio Bravo, El Dorado, Hatari!, and The Long Goodbye, she produced novels such as the classic The Long Tomorrowand the Spur Award winning Western, Follow the Free Wind.
Brackett married Edmond Hamilton on New Year's Eve in, and the couple maintained homes in the high desert of California and the rural farmland of Kinsman, Ohio.
Just weeks before her death on March,, she turned in the first draft screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back and the film was posthumously dedicated to her.
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