Leigh Brackett Super Pack - Leigh Brackett

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Résumé :
Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978. Assembled here in this 200,000 word collection are fifteen of Brackett&rsquo...

Biographie:
Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was one of the foremost voices of twentieth-century science fiction and adventure fiction. Celebrated for her richly imagined tales set on Mars and the outer planets, she earned the title Queen of Space Opera for her sweeping narratives and atmospheric prose. Beyond her fiction career, Brackett was also a distinguished screenwriter, contributing to major Hollywood films including The Big Sleep and later The Empire Strikes Back. Her work continues to influence writers and filmmakers with its vivid landscapes, political complexity, and enduring sense of wonder....

Sommaire:
A sweeping collection of planetary adventure and hard-edged science fiction from Leigh Brackett, the Queen of Space Opera. This Super Pack gathers a substantial selection of Brackett's classic tales of Mars, Venus, distant star systems, and lawless frontier worlds. Her fiction combines noir-inflected toughness with sweeping cosmic imagination: ruined cities beneath alien skies, interplanetary intrigue, smouldering desert planets, and heroes navigating moral ambiguity in hostile environments. A formative voice of mid-twentieth-century science fiction, Brackett brought literary sharpness and cinematic scale to pulp adventure. Her planetary romances helped shape the tone of later space opera and influenced generations of writers and filmmakers. This volume offers readers an expansive introduction to one of the most dynamic storytellers of the Golden Age of science fiction. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Included here are: The Stellar Legion The Dragon-Queen of Jupiter A World is Born Child of the Sun Outpost on Io Citadel of Lost Ships The Blue Behemoth Thralls of the Endless Night The Dancing Girl of Ganymede Black Amazon of Mars Shannach-The Last The Ark of Mars Last Call from Sector 9G So Pale, So Cold, So Fair The Road to Sinharat Thrill to 200,000 words of pulse pounding adventure by undisputed Queen of Space Opera!...