Fritz Leiber
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Assembled here is a selection of Mr. Leiber's best horrific tales, many of which have been virtually unobtainable for decades. From the riveting "Spider Mansion" and "The Phantom Slayer" from Weird Tales to the more recent "Lie Still, Snow White" and "Black Has Its Charms" from rare, small-press magazines, this collection provides an overview of Leiber's fifty-plus years as an acknowledged master of the weird tale. While much of Leiber's seminal science...
23) 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.
25) Spider Mansion
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"So the last fly has obligingly walked into the spider's parlor," he murmured, with a laugh.
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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....
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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser saga volume 2
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While THE LORD OF THE RINGS took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon's grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar, is Leiber's fully-realized, vivid incarnation...
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The Machine has arrived at the tournament to face world class Grand Chess Masters from around the world.
Sandra, a reporter from the Chicago Space Mirror is there to watch the match and see who will win. Can anyone from this group of some of the smartest men in the world beat the artificial intelligence of their new opponent?
29) Yesterday House
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Jack Berry is told not to take his boat out into deep waters. But as any young man who has been told not to do a thing would, he does it anyway and discovers an island. When exploring the island he meets a beautiful young woman named Mary. She lives with her aunts on the island and has never been to the mainland. Mary is convinced that it's the year 1933. Jack is sure she's just been misinformed and plans to prove to her that it's many years later...
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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?"
32) The Unholy Grail
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Three things warned the wizard's apprentice that something was wrong: first the deep-trodden prints of iron-shod hooves along the forest path-he sensed them through his boots before stooping to feel them out in the dark; next, the eerie drone of a bee unnaturally abroad by night; and finally, a faint aromatic odor of burning.
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This is the story of a beautiful woman. And of a monster. It is also the story off our silly, selfish, culture-bound inhabitants of the planet Earth. Es, who was something of an artist. Gene, who studied atoms-and fought the world and himself. Louis, who philosophized. And Larry-that's my name-who tried to write books.
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Assembled from magazine submissions, fanzines, and even "lost" manuscripts discovered amongst the author's personal papers, Horrible Imaginings includes the following short stories: "Horrible Imaginings," "The Automatic Pistol," "Crazy Annaoj," "The Hound," "Alice and the Allergy," "Skinny's Wonderful," "Answering Service," "Scream Wolf," "Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum," "When Brahma Wakes," "The Glove," "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes,"...
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Hatred of the Martians was being deliberately exploited, and Scatterday knew why. And the only way to fight the enslavement of humans, was to assist the Martians, even though it meant risking lynch-law!
Fritz Leiber was a Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winning author who coined the phrase Swords and Sorcery.
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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.
38) The Mind Spider
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"I, the Mind Spider as you name me-the deathless one, the eternally exiled, the eternally imprisoned-or so his overconfident enemies suppose-coming in."
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Great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Snowbank Orbit", "The &4-Square Madhouse", "Misrule", "A Bad Town for Spacemen", "Something Will Turn Up", "Garrity's Anuities", "Road Stop", and "The Man Who Flew".
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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';...