Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the Paperback era of Philip K. Dick, and arguably, is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber in fact knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different flavors of genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Edited by award-winning editors Jonathan Strahan and Charles Brown, this new collection of the grand master's fiction covers all facets of his work, and features an Introduction by Neil Gaiman and an Afterword by Michael Chabon.
This contains: Gonna Roll the Bones; Sanity; Wanted - An Enemy; The Man Who Never Grew Young; The Ship Sails at Midnight; The Enchanted Forest; Coming Attraction; Poor Superman; A Pail of Air; The Foxholes of Mars; The Big Trek; The Big Holiday; The Night He Cried; Space Time for Springers; Try and Change the Past; A Deskful of Girls; Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee; Little Old Miss Macbeth; Mariana; The Man Who Made Friends With Electricity; The Good New Days; and America the Beautiful. Gonna Roll the Bones won the Nebula Award for best novelette in 1967 and the Hugo Award for best novelette in 1968; in 1981, Fritz Leiber was presented with the Nebula Grand Masters Award for lifetime achievement.
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Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the Paperback era of Philip K. Dick, and arguably, is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber in fact knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different flavors of genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Edited by award-winning editors Jonathan Strahan and Charles Brown, this new collection of the grand master's fiction covers all facets of his work, and features an Introduction by Neil Gaiman and an Afterword by Michael Chabon.
This contains: Gonna Roll the Bones; Sanity; Wanted - An Enemy; The Man Who Never Grew Young; The Ship Sails at Midnight; The Enchanted Forest; Coming Attraction; Poor Superman; A Pail of Air; The Foxholes of Mars; The Big Trek; The Big Holiday; The Night He Cried; Space Time for Springers; Try and Change the Past; A Deskful of Girls; Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee; Little Old Miss Macbeth; Mariana; The Man Who Made Friends With Electricity; The Good New Days; and America the Beautiful. Gonna Roll the Bones won the Nebula Award for best novelette in 1967 and the Hugo Award for best novelette in 1968; in 1981, Fritz Leiber was presented with the Nebula Grand Masters Award for lifetime achievement.