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 Fritz Leiber , Science fiction and fantasy author. "I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!" "Explanations are never the most interesting part of science." "Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an... 
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Fritz (Reuter) Leiber, (Jr.) | | Variant Name: |
Fritz Leiber, Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr., Francis Lathrop, Fritz (Reuter) Leiber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Fritz (Reuter) Leiber, Jr. | | Birth Date: |
December 24, 1910 | | Death Date: |
September 5, 1992 | | Place of Birth: |
Chicago, Illinois | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Fritz (Reuter) Leiber, (Jr.)
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 Fritz Leiber is one of the durable masters of science fiction. For forty years he has been delighting his readers with a wide range of stories--from hard science fiction to widely acclaimed fantasy. Fritz Leiber, Jr., was born in Chicago and lived...
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 Fritz Leiber Information
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Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910–September 5, 1992) was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. Leiber (pronounced Lie-ber) married Jonquil Stephens on...
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 Publishers Weekly The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber. (book reviews)
02/16/1990: 208 words, approx. 1 pages THE LEIBER CHRONICLES: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber The year 1939 was a turning point for science fiction and fantasy. It saw the first publication of stories by Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, A.E. van Vogt and Theodore Sturgeon, who, with a few others, virtually... summary from source:
Artforum On The Fritz
12/01/2004: 1,038 words, approx. 4 pages ON THE FRITZ CHINESE LETTER BY SVETISLAV BASARA, TRANSLATED BY ANA LUCIC NORMAL, IL: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS. 180 PAGES. $13. You wake up one morning: You don't know your name, where you live, or whether you're alive or dead. All things considered, this...
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 Critical Essay by Jeff Frane
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The element of change and the effect it has on human society is a persistent theme in Leiber's fiction, and he is one of the few science-fiction writers of his generation to consistently stay abreast of the cultural changes around him. Leiber, above all, has been aware that change—or evolution—is not only inevitable, but necessary to human growth. It is a theme that is most obvious in his Change War stories, but it can be found in subtler forms throughout his fiction. (pp. 13-14) Gather... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Sam Moskowitz
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[Adept's Gambit], built around the characters of The Grey Mouser (personifying Harry Fischer) and the seven-foot sword-wielding giant Fafhrd (the romantic incarnation of Fritz Leiber, Jr.), is beyond question not only the first but the best of the entire series Leiber was to write about these characters…. From the moment that the spell is cast upon Fafhrd that temporarily changes every woman into a pig the instant he kisses her; on to the Grey Mouser's consultation with the seven-eyed N... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Tom Shippey
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[In The Golden Bough Sir James Frazer deduced] that in essence primitive magic was not like primitive religion, as most observers had assumed, but was instead similar to science, in its belief that the universe was subject to "immutable laws, the operation of which can be foreseen and calculated precisely". The Golden Bough makes this claim overtly…. [And] it is a relatively short step from saying that magic is very like science to saying that it is actually a form of science. It is thi...
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