Book description
All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer came.
Only a few scientists had even suspected its presence, and then,
suddenly, it was there, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking
havoc with Earth's tides and weather. The huge, garishly coloured
artificial world has only stopped in the Solar system to refuel but its
mere presence is a catastrophe for the inhabitants of Earth, who all
struggle in their different ways to survive the climatic chaos it
unleashes. A brilliant description of the of the days of chaos as total
destruction threatens the Earth.
Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1965 Fritz Leiber
(1910-1992) Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr was born on Christmas Eve, 1910, in
Chicago, the son of actors Fritz and Virginia Leiber. He was an
accomplished chess player and fencer, and toured a number of times with
his parents' theatre company. He was heavily influenced by H. P.
Lovecraft in the early years of his career, but later matured into a
writer with very much his own voice. Indeed, he became a hugely
influential figure in the genre - particularly in the area of Sword
& Sorcery (a term he is widely credited with inventing).He is best
known for the creation of two of the great rogues of modern fantasy,
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Winner of 6 Hugos, 3 Nebulas and 2 World
Fantasy Awards, Leiber was comfortable writing across the whole gamut of
fantastic literature from SF to fantasy to horror. The respect with
which he is held in these areas is evidenced by his World Fantasy Life
Achievement, Stoker Life Achievement and SFWA Grand Master Awards. Fritz
Leiber died in San Francisco in 1992.
