The Big Time / The Mind Spider and Other Stories by Fritz Leiber

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1961. Ace.

The Big Time
Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) is best known as a fantasy writer, but his achievements and influence are also considerable in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his major SF works is the Change War series, about rival time-traveling armies locked in a bitter, age-old war for control of existence; the battles frequently alter the course of human history. The most important work of Leiber's Change War series is the Hugo Award-winning novel The Big Time, in which doctors, entertainers, and wounded soldiers find themselves treacherously trapped with an activated atomic bomb inside the Place, a room existing outside of space-time. It's not one of Leiber's strongest novels: the cutesy-girlish narrative voice is unconvincing, while the demands of describing time travel and time paradoxes inevitably strain the prose. But The Big Time is a tense, claustrophobic SF mystery, and possibly the ultimate locked-room whodunit.

The Mind Spider and Other Stories
There can be no doubt that Fritz Leiber is one of the foremost talents writing Science Fiction and Fantasy today. The unique ideas and techniques he has created for his novels and stories have earned him an impressive reputation - both in and out of the Science Fiction world.

The stories included in the collection you now hold are some of the finest examples of the high quality, imagination, and pure reading pleasure that the world has come to expect from the genius of Fritz Leiber.

• The Haunted Future - (1959)
• Damnation Morning - (1959)
• The Oldest Soldier - (1960)
• Midnight in the Mirror World - (1964)
• The Number of the Beast - (1958)
• The Mind Spider - (1959)