A fallen satellite of the Planet Venus is the lure which leads three hunted beings to the mysterious island of smiling death! The Moon That Vanished by Leigh Brackett, that’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.

The Moon That Vanished marks the debut of the woman known as "The Queen of Space Opera.” Born in Los Angeles in December 1915 Leigh Douglass Brackett wasn’t just an author.

Hollywood director Howard Hawks was so impressed by her novel No Good From a Corpse that he had his secretary call in "this guy Brackett" to help William Faulkner write the script for the 1946 movie The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

She was one of the screenwriters for the 1959 John Wayne movie Rio Bravo which also starred Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson.

And she wrote the first version for a little movie, “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back”. She died soon thereafter and because it was an unfinished script her draft was revised and none of her ideas made it in the final script.

Her Science Fiction career began in 1940 when she wrote the short story Martian Quest. She would write short stories, novels and screenplays, with time off every now and then, until her death from cancer at the age of 62.

We’ll find our story in the October 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories magazine, turn to page 13 for, The Moon That Vanished by Leigh Brackett…

Why did I choose this story? Leigh Brackett has been on my radar for some time now and I wanted our first Brackett story to be a good one. She did write many short sci-fi stories but this one, as you know by now, is a little longer. For me The Moon That Vanished was a roller coaster ride with exotic locations and descriptive phrases far beyond most of the shorter stories we’ve narrated so far. I loved it and there will be more stories by Leigh Brackett on the podcast.

Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, yet another story written by a woman, Like all her other plants from far-off worlds, Aunt Amy hoped the Venusian Rambler would win a prize. It hoped so too. Flowering Evil by Margaret St. Clair, That’s next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.

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