Fritz Leiber
1) The Big Time
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Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his major SF creations is the Change War, a series of stories and short novels about rival time-traveling forces locked in a bitter, ages-long struggle for control of the human universe where battles alter history and then change it again until there is no certainty about what might once have happened....
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"Since I've gone this far, I'll go a bit further and make the paradoxical admission that even us Deathlanders don't really understand our urge to murder. Oh, we have our rationalizations of it, just like everyone has of his ruling passion-we call ourselves junkmen, scavengers, gangrene surgeons, we sometimes believe we're doing the person we kill the ultimate kindness, yes and get slobbery tearful about it afterwards, we sometimes tell ourselves we've...
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Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Fritz Leiber is a science fiction grand master with an unparalleled ability to discern the stranger side of the universe. The Green Millennium is set in a futuristic human society based on our own. The regimented, regulated, and bureaucratized lifestyle led by the misanthropic Phil Gish leaves him feeling vaguely dissatisfied and emotionally cut off from other people. He is surprised when a pure green cat appears...
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"Rig ship for the snowbank orbit! Snowbank orbit with stinger! Mr. Grunfeld, raise the fleet."
Grunfiled saw two viridian flares flashing with a bright green ring like a mist halo. "Ambush," he said. "At least two cruisers."
They were approaching Uranus with the faint hope there were survivors from the First Uranus Expedition. What will they find if they can get past the Enemy?
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After World War III, a torn and devastated world is split between science and magic. A group of scientists with a super computer pit themselves against a group of politicians whose followers are desperate enough to believe anything. But in the end, nothing is what it seems and no one is to be trusted.
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The Swords of Lankhmar finds the city characteristically plagued by rats. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are in the employ of Glipkerio, the overlord, to guard a grain ship on its journey. Along the way, the rats onboard stage a rebellion and threaten to take the ship until a two-headed sea monster saves the day. If only there were two-headed sea monsters everywhere, Lankhmar would be safe, too. Alas, upon returning to the city, the two discover that...
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Amazing Stories Volume 152 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are four short stories by different authors: "Martians, Keep Out!" by Fritz Leiber, "Hsilgne Esrever" by John S. Carroll, "Referent" by Joseph Samachson, and "All In The Mind" by Gene L. Henderson.
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Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun it's cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom where I'd hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, "Look, Buster, do you want to live?"
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Edited by H. L. Gold; 'Galaxy Science Fiction' hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. Galaxy gave a home to writers that didn't fit into Astounding and F&SF, and readers rejoiced. In this first 'Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack' we bring you more than five hundred pages of fiction. These are the stories that helped Galaxy Magazine carve it's name on the Mount Rushmore of science fiction. The include:...
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Destiny Times Three presents a fascinating exploration of the concept of multiple realities and potential futures. The narrative unfolds as the story of Joel Latham, a physicist who discovers a method of viewing alternate versions of the future. In this novel, the Earth is on the brink of destruction due to a series of atomic explosions. Joel, along with his wife and close friend, decides to use his invention to glimpse into various potential futures....
15) The Casket-Demon
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"You forget, baroness, the runic rhymes of the Prussian Nostradamus," said Dr. Rumanescue, Vividy's astrologist and family magician. "Wenn der Kassette-Teufel . . . '-or, to translate roughly, 'When the casket-demon is let out, The life of the Von Sheer is in doubt.'"
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In the Plaza of Dark Delights, which lies seven blocks south of the Marsh Gate and extends from the Fountain of Dark Abundance to the Shrine of the Black Virgin, the shop-lights glinted upward no more brightly than the stars glinted down. For there the vendors of drugs and the peddlers of curiosa and the hawkers of assignations light their stalls and crouching places with foxfire, glowworms, and fire-pots with tiny single windows, and they conduct...
18) The Big Engine
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Have you found out about the Big Engine? It's all around us, you know-can't you hear it even now?
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Amazing Stories Volume 139 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are three short stories by different authors: "The Foxholes of Mars" by Fritz Leiber, "Climate -- Incorporated" by George O. Smith, and "The Devil of East Lupton" by Murray Leinster.
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Fritz Leiber was a giant in the genre field. He won five Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, three world Fantasy Awards, and one Stoker Award, and was a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master. His influence on science fiction, fantasy, and horror cannot be overstated. Included in this massive five hundred page plus anthology are 26 of Leiber's best stories. Stories included herein are: 'A Pail of Air'; 'Appointment in Tomorrow'; 'Coming Attraction';...