#leighbrackett — Public Fediverse posts

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: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-ax3zr-26648ea9

#ScienceFiction #SFF #CrimeFiction #Gothic #SpeculativeFiction #Books #Bookstodon

Here’s a new book I’m looking forward to devouring with relish.
#ShirleyJackson #PatriciaHighsmith #LeighBrackett #Gender #Genre #AshleyLawson #Books #Bookstodon

@bookstodon It appears I want the world to end.
I recently finished #EarthAbides and have ordered #TheDeathOfGrass and have #ACanticleForLeibowitz on my TBR, though I don't own a copy yet. #TheLongTomorrow by #LeighBrackett sounds interesting too, but what else might interest me?
It's Payday next week...

Edit: I've put the list on my friendica account https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1067-baf0-f288-616002193483

#SFF #PostApoc

Born #OTD was the great #LeighBrackett. I discuss her #TheLongTomorrow in my classes. It was a thrill to see her script of #TheEmpireStrikesBack in person at the Ray Bradbury Museum. #SFF #ScienceFiction #StarWars

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Brackett

Virgil Finlay illustrates short novel ‘The Big Jump’ by Leigh Brackett from its first appearance in the magazine Space Stories, February 1953. #FinlayFriday
#VirgilFinlay #LeighBrackett #Illustration #SF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction

Again the bird-like call came, very soft this time, but sounding much closer. There was a grove of trees perhaps sixty yards away. The two men turned toward it, curious to see if possible what sort of creature was singing in the night.

Leigh Brackett's The Ginger Star is a fine fast-moving, action-packed, atmospheric1974 sword-and-planet adventure and a first contact story. Brackett was at her best describing decaying civilisations and the planet Skaith qualifies as that.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2024/08/leigh-bracketts-ginger-star.html

#sciencefiction #scifi #swordandplanet #swordandsorcery #LeighBrackett

Virgil Finlay illustrating ‘The Moon That Vanished’ by Leigh Brackett from Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1948. #FinlayFriday

Heath stood braced against the rail, staring out into the hot indigo night.
The mists rose thick from the Sea of Morning Opals. They crept up out of the mud, and breathed in clouds from the swamps. The slow wind pushed them in long rolling drifts, blue-white and glimmering against the darker night.

#VirgilFinlay #LeighBrackett #ScienceFiction #Illustration #Pulp #SFF

Late to the party as usual…

#10Authors5BooksEach

Tanith Lee #TanithLee
Philip K. Dick #PhilipKDick
Dorothy L. Sayers #DorothyLSayers
Ray Bradbury #RayBradbury
Ursula K. Le Guin #UrsulaKLeGuin
Neil Gaiman #NeilGaiman
Nnedi Okorafor #NnediOkorafor
Michael Moorcock #MichaelMoorcock
Leigh Brackett #LeighBrackett
Harlan Ellison #HarlanEllison

@bookstodon #Bookstodon

Das Jahr ist fast zu Ende und auch wenn es ein schlechtes Jahr war, war es zumindest ein gutes Bücherjahr für mich. Diese 5 Bücher waren meine Highlights:

- #NiemandesSchlaf von #SvenHaupt

- #DiesIstMeinLetztesLied von #LenaRichter / @catrinity

- #Neurobiest von #AikiMira

- #DiePrinzessinnen - Helden und andere Dämonen von #ChristianEndres

- #DasLangeMorgen von #LeighBrackett

#buchstodon @buchstodon

https://www.literatopia.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28334:judiths-phantastische-highlights-2023&catid=96&Itemid=116

But instead of heading to Hollywood after the end of the pulps, Edmond ended his long career at DC Comics. She died from cancer in 1978, but not before turning in the first draft script for what would become “The Empire Strikes Back!” Although her script was rewritten by others, many key elements remain.

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#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #SwordandPlanet #Pulp #WeirdTales #LeighBrackett #WomenWriters #StarWars #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

...he told his secretary to "get this guy Brackett." She then left for Hollywood, leaving a half-finished tale for Planet Stories 'Lorelei of the Red Mist'. She asked an emerging writer friend to complete it for her, which Ray Bradbury did seamlessly. Her husband was another SF/F writer of the era, Edmond Hamilton.

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#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #SwordandPlanet #Pulp #LeighBrackett #WomenWriters #StarWars #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

The great science fiction writer Leigh Brackett was #BOTD

The “Queen of Space Opera” wrote SF/F for the pulps of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1944 she wrote her first mystery novel, which came to the attention of legendary director Howard Hawks. When Hawks needed help on an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’…

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#ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera #SwordandPlanet #Pulp #WeirdTales #LeighBrackett #StarWars #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

#TwoForTuesday Ace Double D-36 1953
Not a bad deal for 35 cents.

#RobertEHoward #REH #Conan #LeighBrackett #Rhiannon #WeirdTales #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF #FantasyFiction #Fantasy @fantasy

Interior illustration by Virgil Finlay for "Shadow Over Mars" by Leigh Brackett from Fantastic Story Magazine, March 1953.

#FinlayFriday #VirgilFinlay #LeighBrackett #Illustration #PenandInk #GGA #WeirdTales #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @fantasy @sciencefiction

Happy #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈
Spotlight on the troubled genius that was Jeffrey Catherine Jones (1944-2011). Some treasures of mine along with an excellent biography and more artwork at the link.

#JeffreyCatherineJones #TheStudio #Pride #PrideMonth2024 #LeighBrackett #AndreNorton #AndrewOffutt #Illustration #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #SF #SFF @fantasy

https://www.thegutterreview.com/the-brushwork-of-idyl-hands-a-jeffrey-catherine-jones-gallery/

Hmm, hadn't realised the screenplay for this 70s version of The Long Goodbye was by the legendary Leigh Brackett, who coincidentally had worked on the screenplay for the 1940s, Bogart-starring take on Chandler, The Big Sleep

#LeighBrackett #film #ClassicFilm #TheLongGoodbye #PhilipMarlowe #gumshoe #Noir #movie #ClassicFilm #ElliotGould #RaymondChandler #RobertAltman

Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.

I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.

Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:

#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn

Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.

I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.

Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:

#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn

Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.

I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.

Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:

#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn

Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.

I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.

Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:

#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn

Any weird fiction fans here? I'm talking about the real stuff, from Weird Tales of the 1920s/30s.

I got into the genre in the usual way, through Lovecraft. And in the usual way I started exploring work of various writers in his circle, and the work of writers whom Lovecraft admired.

Hashtags for some of the weird fiction writers I like:

#hplovecraft #ClarkAshtonSmith #CLMoore #LeighBrackett #algernonblackwood #arthurmachen #LordDunsany #RobertEHoward #weirdfiction #WeirdTales #SeaburyQuinn

I'm a sci-fi fan but my tastes are strictly old school. I don't read anything written since the 90s. And not much written since the 60s, apart from some of the cyberpunk writers.

One of the first sci-fi novels I read was Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars and I still regard it as one of the half dozen best sci-fi novels of all time.

Some writers I like -

#ArthurCClarke #murrayleinster #julesverne #hgwells #johnwyndham #fredhoyle #frederikpohl #conandoyle #williamgibson #leighbrackett

Leigh Brackett’s 1949 novella Enchantress of Venus introduced her most famous series character, Eric John Stark. A fairly typical sword-and-planet adventure but a well-crafted example of the breed. There’s a genuine sense of evil, and of decadence. There’s also a decidedly bleak and tragic edge to the tale.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2017/10/leigh-bracketts-enchantress-of-venus.html

#LeighBrackett #swordandplanet #PlanetStories #pulpfiction #SciFi

Some writers I like, in various genres.
#lesliecharteris #hplovecraft #leighbrackett #alistairmaclean #ianfleming #raymondchandler #lendeighton #erlestanleygardner #robertehoward #arthurmachen #algernonblackwood #mrjames #edgarwallace #sheridanlefanu

Some writers I like, in various genres.
#lesliecharteris #hplovecraft #leighbrackett #alistairmaclean #ianfleming #raymondchandler #lendeighton #erlestanleygardner #robertehoward #arthurmachen #algernonblackwood #mrjames #edgarwallace #sheridanlefanu