The Best of Leigh Brackett by Leigh Brackett

Curiosity getting the better of him, Ross approaches the man and engages him in conversation. When Ross asks his caravan master about the man, the caravan master tells him to forget about him. Ross can see immediately there’s something different about this person. He’s sitting in a dive, waiting for the final preparations to be made for his caravan, when a man walks in. In this one, an ethnologist named John Ross is on Mars studying the various tribes and hoping to be awarded an endowed chair at a university on Earth for his work. As cool as her Venus stories are (and we’re not done looking at them), Brackett’s stories of Mars are what made her reputation. So here’s a Mars story, a planet we’ve not looked at yet in this series of posts on Brackett. See Standards for People and The Naming of Names.Originally published in Startling Stories, April 1952 Please extend it by adding more information about the person, such as fanzines and apazines published, awards, clubs, conventions worked on, GoHships, impact on fandom, external links, anecdotes, etc. 2020 - 1945 Best Related Work Retro Hugo, 1945 Best Novel Retro Hugo, 1945 Best Novella Retro Hugo nominee.2005 - Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.

1981 - 1981 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo.Recording of Pacificon II Hugos & Leigh Brackett, Edmond Hamilton GoH speeches. The Hamilton-Brackett Award was named in their honor. She was married to Edmond Hamilton from 1946 until his death in 1977. She was nominated for the 1956 Best Novel Hugo for The Long Tomorrow and won the 1981 Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo for her The Empire Strikes Back screenplay. She also wrote detective and western fiction, and her western novel, Follow the Free Wind, won the Spur Award for Best Novel in 1963. In the trilogy she published in the mid-1970s – The Ginger Star, The Hounds of Skaith, and The Reavers of Skaith - she tried to recapture the spirit of her earlier pulp genre stories. Her pulp SF is collected in The Best of Leigh Brackett (1977). She was known principally for her science-fantasy stories in Planet Stories, Startling Stories, and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Her first published SF story was 'Martian Quest' in the February, 1940, issue of Astounding. With her husband, Edmond Hamilton, she was GoH at Pacificon II, the 1964 Worldcon. Leigh Douglass Brackett was a SF author and a Hollywood screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1945), The Long Goodbye (1973), and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton, 1954.

The Best of Leigh Brackett by Leigh Brackett