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Leigh Brackett
Data di nascita: 7. Dicembre 1915
Data di morte: 18. Marzo 1978
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Leigh Brackett è stata una scrittrice e sceneggiatrice statunitense.
Ha scritto, oltre a numerosi romanzi fantasy e di fantascienza, numerose sceneggiature di celebri film, tra cui Il grande sonno , Un dollaro d'onore , Il lungo addio e L'Impero colpisce ancora . È stata accreditata come "la regina della space opera".
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„No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.“
— Leigh Brackett, The Empire Strikes Back
„There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.“
— Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
„Space opera, as every reader doubtless knows, is a pejorative term often applied to a story that has an element of adventure. Over the decades, brilliant and talented new writers appear, receiving great acclaim, and each and every one of them can be expected to write at least one article stating flatly that the day of space opera is over and done, thank goodness, and that henceforth these crude tales of interplanetary nonsense will be replaced by whatever type of story that writer happens to favor — closet dramas, psychological dramas, sex dramas, etc., but by God important dramas, containing nothing but Big Thinks. Ten years late, the writer in question may or may not still be around, but the space opera can be found right where it always was, sturdily driving its dark trade in heroes.“
— Leigh Brackett, The Best of Planet Stories 1
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„The cities were sucking all the life of the country into themselves and destroying it. Men were no longer individuals but units in a vast machine, all cut to one pattern, with the same tastes and ideas, the same mass-produced education that did not educate but only pasted a veneer of catchwords over ignorance. Why do you want to bring that back?“
— Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
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„I will speak to them,' he said 'with a straight tongue.“
— Leigh Brackett, Follow the Free Wind
„Girls without Pasts don't keep guns in their dressing rooms.“
— Leigh Brackett, No Good from a Corpse
„The door opened and she came out. She was wearing a red dress. It was faded a little, and there were streaks and creases in it from having been folded away for a long time, but those were unimportant things. It was red. It was made of some soft, shiny, slithery stuff that rustled when she moved, and it came clear down to the floor, hiding her feet, but that was about all it hid. It fitted tight around her waist and hips and outlined her thighs when she walked forward, and above the waist there wasn’t very much at all. She held out her arms at the sides and turned around slowly. Her back and shoulders were bare, white and gleaming in the sunlight that fell through the window, and her breasts were sharply outlined in the red cloth, showing above it in two half-moon curves, and her black hair fell down, dark and glossy over her white skin. “It belonged to my great-grandmother. Do you like it?” Len said, “Christ.” He stared and stared, and his face was almost as red as the dress. “It’s the most indecent thing I ever saw.” “I“
— Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow
