Fritz Leiber

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. «The Big Time» is Hugo Award winning short science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber. The storyline features members of one of two factions, both capable of time travel, engaged in a long-term conflict called «The Change War». The two opposing groups are nicknamed the Spiders and the Snakes after their respective sponsors. The true forms or identities of the Spiders and the Snakes, how those...

Fritz Leiberi jutukogu „Mõõgad ja nõidus“ on kirjaniku kuulsaimast tegelastepaarist Fafhrdist ja Hallist Hiirepüüdjast rääkiva seitsmeköitelise sarja esimene osa. Sari sai alguse 1939. aastal ja on üks fantaasiakirjanduse mõõga-ja-maagia alažanri tüvitekste, oma kõrge üldkirjandusliku taseme ja iroonilise stiili poolest moodsa sünkmorni fantasy üks suurimaid mõjutajaid. Fafhrd on jõmmist palgasõdur ja Hall Hiirepüüdja sulihingega varas, läbi nende silmade uurib kirjanik inimhinge tühisemat ja...

Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.

An archaeologist discovers the remains of an intelligent species, here on Earth.

They are the aliens among us—and their ways and wonders are stranger than extraterrestrials!

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?”

Wysten Turner is a Brit visiting America after it's great war with Russia. He meets a woman with a tale of woe in the streets of New York. Her boyfriend is a professional wrestler who beats her. She begs Turner to help her escape him, but is the situation as straight forward as it seems? Nominated for a Retro Hugo Award.

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 their business almost as silently as the stars...

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.

The dark star passed, bringing with it eternal night and turning history into incredible myth in a single generation! In this story of desperation and courage a family believing themselves to be the last humans alive on Earth must fight daily against a cold uncaring universe. Fritz Leiber won multiple Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. This story shows him at the height of his prowess.