Brackett worked on the original screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back but passed away before production began.

Leigh Brackett (1915-1978), also known as 'the Queen of Space Opera,' wrote dozens of science fiction short stories and novels before turning to screenplays. Detailed artwork for jacket by Irv Docktor. In publisher's dust jacket, $2.95 retail price on front flap, wear to top edge, faint dampstaining to spine, also visible on verso. Solid text block, faint toning to endpapers, a touch of rubbing to edges of spine, a near fine example. Stated 'First Edition' on copyright page. First edition of The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett. Twenty-first-century readers of the book may be less hopeful than its author about Bartorstown's aspirations, but on its own terms the novel is a glowing success.' - The Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition/Internet. It was a best novel finalist for the 1956 Hugo awards, in a strong year Brackett was the first woman novelist to be so recognized. It is the slow, impressively warm and detailed epic of two boys and their finally successful attempts to find Bartorstown, where people are secretly reestablishing science and Technology. Brackett's best single pure-sf work, The Long Tomorrow (1955), which is set in a strictly controlled, technophobic, Ruined-Earth USA, many years after the destruction of the Cities and of the Technology that brought mankind to ruin. Fine and collectible condition with a very slight ding on the STE. paperback edition/printing (1974 Ballantine 24289) with very neat new cover art by Sweet.

The long tomorrow by leigh brackett