Kershner eventually took the job to direct the sequel and would push for the darker tone that it is now so highly acclaimed for, but still work within the parameters that Lucas set up for him. Lawrence Kasdan would pick up where she left off, taking Lucas's intended story beats for the film, but also giving the Empire his signature witty dialogue. Simply put in the documentary Empire of Dreams, if the first sequel was a dud, there wouldn't have been any more Star Wars! Lucas also approached sci-fi legend Leigh Brackett to write the screenplay, who was able to finish one draft before passing away. He would have to follow up on the biggest movie ever released at that time, doing so with a film that was so good that Lucas could continue making Star Wars movies for as long as he wanted.

1977, Philippa Grove-Stephensen in Paperback Parlour, April 1978, and Brian Stableford in Vector 90, 1978.Kershner was hesitant to take the job for obvious reasons. The book was reviewed by Algis Budrys in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec.

'The Queer Ones' (from Venture Science Fiction Magazine, Mar.

'The Tweener' (from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb.

'Shannach - The Last' (from Planet Stories, Nov.

'The Last Days of Shandakor' (from Startling Stories, Apr.

'The Woman from Altair' (from Startling Stories, Jul.

' Enchantress of Venus' (from Planet Stories, Fall 1949).

'The Moon That Vanished' (from Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct.

'The Veil of Astellar' (from Thrilling Wonder Stories, Spring 1944).

'The Vanishing Venusians' (from Planet Stories, Spring 1945).

'The Jewel of Bas' (from Planet Stories, Spring 1944).

'Story-Teller of Many Worlds' ( Edmond Hamilton).

The book contains ten short works of fiction with an afterword and two addenda by the author, together with an introduction by editor Edmond Hamilton and a map of Brackett's fictional version of Mars with an associated piece by Margaret Howes. The book has been translated into German. It was first published in hardcover by Nelson Doubleday in July 1977 and in paperback by Ballantine Books in September of the same year as a volume in its Classic Library of Science Fiction.Ī second hardcover edition was issued by Garland Publishing in March 1983, and Del Rey/Ballantine reprinted the paperback edition in June 1986.

The Best of Leigh Brackett is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Leigh Brackett, edited by Edmond Hamilton.

The best of leigh brackett