Book description
Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he
published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction
fields. One of his major SF creations is the Change War, a series of
stories and short novels about rival time-traveling forces locked in a
bitter, ages-long struggle for control of the human universe where
battles alter history and then change it again until there is no
certainty about what might once have happened. The most notable work of
the 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. Leiber creates a tense,
claustrophobic SF mystery, and a brilliant, unique locked-room whodunit.
Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1956 Fritz Leiber is
considered one of science fiction's legends. Author of a prodigious
number of stories and novels, many of which were made into films, he is
best known as creator of the classic Lankhmar fantasy series. Fritz
Leiber has won awards too numerous to count including the coveted Hugo
and Nebula, and was honored as a lifetime Grand Master by the Science
Fiction Writers of America. He died in 1992.
