If you like Star Wars, you probably like The Empire Strikes Back, the Star Wars that folks generally consider to be the best of the Star Wars. Two people wrote the screenplay for that excellent film. One is Lawrence Kasdan, Hollywood long-timer, who also wrote The Big Chill, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Body Heat. The other person who wrote The Empire Strikes Back is Leigh Brackett. She was the first woman shortlisted for the Hugo ward for short story, and one of the first two women to be nominated for a Hugo for best novel. She also wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and Rio Bravo. Here’s a review of her 1956 Hugo nominated book The Long Tomorrow, from Science Fiction Ruminations:
“‘No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America” (Thirtieth Amendment of the United States Constitution)”
Nominated for the 1956 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Leigh Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow (1955) not only clocks in as the best of her work I’ve read so far but also joins my pantheon of favorite 50s SF visions (*). At first glance Brackett’s novel appears to traverse standard SF juvenile territory where a teenage boy, in a religiously and socially oppressive society, encounters an object and memories of the past that opens up a path to self-discovery. But memories are memories. And dreams are dreams. The world is a far more violent and rocky place.
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