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Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber Relié – 1 février 1990

Édition en Anglais de Fritz Leiber (Auteur), Martin Harry Greenberg (Sous la direction de)
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  1. Langue
    Anglais
  2. Éditeur
    Dark Harvest Books
  3. Date de publication
    1 février 1990
  4. ISBN-10
    0913165484
  5. ISBN-13
    978-0913165485
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  • Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Dark Harvest Books
  • Date de publication ‏ : ‎ 1 février 1990
  • Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0913165484
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0913165485
  • Poids de l'article ‏ : ‎ 454 g
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  • O. Oyetunde
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles It came well packed and in good condition.
    Avis laissé au Royaume-Uni le 15 janvier 2017
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    Fritz Leiber's stories all in one big book. This is wonderous to read. It came well packed and in good condition.
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  • M-A Berthier
    5,0 sur 5 étoiles Best 1 Volume Compilation of Leiber's Stories
    Avis laissé aux États-Unis le 12 février 2011
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    This is probably the best one-volume compilation of Leiber's work. Its approach is historical / retrospective, and it collects stories from his entire career, and manages to include MOST of his best work in the story-to-novella length. Selections do not appear to have been driven completely by merit - it has a lot of stories that are historically important, such as his first story, "Two Sought Adventure," and that means inevitably that some of the stories are merely "okay," not great. However, the book's virtue is its comprehensiveness, so we must expect a certain unevenness.

    Horror
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    Most compendiums of Leiber's work have tended to concentrate on his fantasy stories and/or science fiction. By contrast, in this collection, we also have a goodly number of his supernatural horror stories. "Belsen Express," "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes," "The Button Molder," "Smoke Ghost," and "The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity" are interesting and original treatments of the genre of contemporary modern horror that broke new ground and had a lasting influence.

    SF
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    Leiber often used science fiction for satiric or critical, often dystopian comment on society, and it is perhaps at times more dated for that reason; but many of the stories are of high quality. "Coming Attraction," "America the Beautiful," and "A Pail of Air" are some examples that fall into this classification. We must, however, make adjustments when reading these speculations of the way the future would be. Some of the vision is positively prescient, but inevitably, many of the details didn't turn out as he speculated. Some of these satiric stories, such as "Poor Superman" and "The Night He Cried," may baffle readers unaware of L Ron Hubbard's Dianetics or the forays by Mickey Spillane into the fantasy genre. An admirer of Leiber will be glad to have them, of course, and even if your acquaintance with Spillane or Hubbard is slight, it'll amuse. The change war stories, starting with "Try And Change the Past," are especial favorites, where Leiber plays various riffs on time paradoxes. These stories culminated in his novel _The Big Time_.

    Fantasy
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    The Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series is here represented by "Two Sought Adventure," "Bazaar of the Bizarre," "The Bait," "The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars" and the award winning "Ill Met in Lankhmar." The problem with Leiber's sword & sorcery series is that, if you like it, you want all of it, and if you don't care for it, any of it seems disposable. This selection of Fafhrd & Mouser stories seems as defensible as any, although there is an odd grab-bag quality to the choice. There are also non-series fantasy stories that use more contemporary settings (e.g., "Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee" and the omitted "Space-Time for Springers") that show Leiber had a gift for what might be called mundane fantasy or magic realism.

    Hybrids
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    Science Fantasy was a style for which Leiber had great flair. Stories like "Gonna Roll the Bones" and "Ship of Shadows," represented here, are notable not simply for their excellence as stories, but for the way that they seem to combine science fiction, fantasy, and horror with great panache.

    Reservations
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    There are some things that were left out that I'd like to have had here. To name just two: "The Moriarty Gambit" and "Space Time for Springers." There are more. And there is one story, "Ill Met in Lankhmar," whose strength derives from a prior acquaintance with Fafhrd and the Mouser. I don't agree with Gardner Dozois's assessment that "Ill Met in Lankhmar" was not one of Leiber's better efforts. However, I think it is more effective if presented in context than taken individually.

    A collection of this sort requires choices, and the choices seem pretty solid given their constraints. There is no perfect single volume of Leiber's work. Combined with _The Best of Fritz Leiber_, this book comes close, and is highly recommended to Leiber fans, if they can find it. Be warned, however, that the copy editing was a trifle weak, and there are some annoying and obvious typos.

    Contains
    · Two Sought Adventure
    · The Automatic Pistol
    · Smoke Ghost
    · The Hound
    · Sanity
    · Wanted: An Enemy
    · Alice and the Allergy
    · The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
    · The Man Who Never Grew Young
    · Coming Attraction
    · A Pail of Air
    · Poor Superman
    · Yesterday House
    · The Moon Is Green
    · A Bad Day for Sales
    · The Night He Cried
    · What's He Doing in There?
    · Try and Change the Past
    · Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee
    · The Haunted Future
    · Mariana
    · The Beat Cluster
    · The 64-Square Madhouse
    · The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity
    · Bazaar of the Bizarre
    · 237 Talking Statues
    · When the Change-Winds Blow
    · Four Ghosts in Hamlet
    · Gonna Roll the Bones
    · The Inner Circles
    · Ship of Shadows
    · Endfray of the Ofay
    · America the Beautiful
    · Ill Met in Lankhmar
    · The Bait
    · Midnight by the Morphy Watch
    · Belsen Express
    · Catch That Zeppelin!
    · The Glove
    · The Death of Princes
    · A Rite of Spring
    · The Button Molder
    · Horrible Imaginings
    · The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars
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