A really nice collections, with some rare uncollected stories (Big Engine, Martians Keep Out) plus Gummitch, Lankhmar and Dr Dragonnet ...
Last Updated: Sunday, August 18, 2019
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First published in 1964 by Ballantine as a Paperback Contains a very wide range of stories, covering all the periods of his writing . Although duplicated heavily in The Best of Fritz Leiber, the inclusion of such stories as The Girl with Hungry Eyes, Smoke Ghost and The Secret Songs make it an excellent collection. Available in the UK only. “SF and Fantasy stories of considerable variety and idiosyncrasy, many of them reprinted from earlier Leiber collections. As well as early standards like ‘The Smoke Ghost’, it include some interestingly unclassifiable tales from the 1960s such as ‘The Winter Flies’; and the title piece. ‘Every story in the book is finished with a craftsman’s care, and they are all thoroughly readable. M. John Harrison – New Worlds”. Contains the following short stories (listed in alphabetical order) A Pail of Air Coming Attraction Mariana No Great Magic Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee Smoke Ghost The Girl with the Hungry Eyes The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity The Moon Is Green The Secret Songs The Winter Flies
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Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2019
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First published in 1990 by Dark Harvest as a Hardback A quite superb selection. Billed as 50 years of Fritz Leiber many of the stories are uncollected before and the others are classics. Notable Editions: Numbered, lettered and slipcased editions released Kirkus Review The cream of octogenarian Leiber’s fantasies, holding 50 years of stories (44 selections) in one giant volume that can be seen as the capstone of Leiber’s storytelling–although he has written some well-remembered novels (Gather, Darkness and Conjure Wife, filmed excellently as Burn, Witch, Burn). The present collection includes the second earliest swords-and-sorcery fantasy in Leiber’s Grey Mouser and Fafhrd series “”Two Sought Adventure”” (1939) and the latest, “”The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars”” (1983). “”Curse”” may be Fafhrd and Grey Mouser’s swan song, in that they die–for a while. If their deaths turn out to be only flirtations with death, the farewell notes seem to have sounded. There’s not a dumb story in the book, though some–such as “”Poor Superman,”” the story of a gigantic artificial intelligence–have been outdone by others. Leiber’s classiest acts are here: “”The Automatic Pistol,”” in which a dead hood’s pistol pursues his murderer; “”Smoke Ghost””–a juicy updating of just what a modern ghost should be like (“”A smoky composite face with the hungry anxiety of the unemployed, the neurotic restlessness of the person without purpose, the jerky tension of the high-pressure metropolitan worker. . .the aggressive whine of the panhandler. . .and a thousand other twisted emotional patterns. Each one overlying yet blending with the other, like a pile of semi-transparent masks. . .””); “”Gonna Roll the Bones,”” “”Ship of Shadows,”” “”Ill Met in Lankhmar,”” and the ironic antidefamation fantasy “”Belsen Express””–which is a gasser. Leiber’s best collection ever.
Contains the following short stories (listed in alphabetical order) 237 Talking Statues Etc A Bad Day for Sales A Pail of Air A Rite of Spring Alice and the Allergy America the Beautiful Bazaar of the Bizarre Belsen Express Catch That Zeppelin! Coming Attraction Endfray of the Ofay Four Ghosts in Hamlet Gonna Roll the Bones Horrible Imaginings Ill Met in Lankhmar Mariana Midnight by the Morphy Watch Poor Superman Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee Sanity Ship of Shadows Smoke Ghost The 64-Square Madhouse The Automatic Pistol The Bait The Beat Cluster The Button Molder The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars The Death of Princes The Girl with the Hungry Eyes The Glove The Haunted Future The Hound The Jewels in the Forest The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity The Man Who Never Grew Young The Moon Is Green The Night He Cried The Winter Flies Try and Change The Past Wanted - An Enemy What's He Doing In There? When the Change-Winds Blow Yesterday House
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Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2019
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