The Green Millennium

By: Fritz Leiber

Narrated by: William Coon

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

From the Hugo and Nebula Grandmaster author Fritz Leiber:

Phil Gish has always felt like a luck-forsaken little guy who never got a break. But he awakes one morning to overwhelming optimism and hope. The thing that brings him joy is the sudden appearance of a green cat that has jumped through the window of his tiny bachelor apartment. He decides to adopt the cat and names it Lucky. But Lucky has other plans, and the cat disappears from Phil's place as quickly as it jumped in.

Phil's journey to retrieve Lucky takes him directly into the paths of some of the most eccentric characters to ever populate a novel, from a female masked wrestler to a psychoanalyst on the take and his seemingly psychotic daughter, Mitzie.

Poor Phil's problems are only beginning. He starts to have special feelings for Mitzie, and the green cat becomes a sought-after prize by the mob and the government.

Here's a offbeat story written as if someone had mixed a Marx Brothers movie with a Philip K. Dick novel.

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Very much of its time

This isn't what we expect from modern science fiction. But it held my attention and was very interesting as a window into the time it was written.

Very strange and very entertaining

I really like the old sci fi. This was an odd, dystopian story with a bizarrely happy ending. Most unexpected.
As usual, too many parallels to today.

fun but occasionally mushy

This book is a fun, light read with a wonderful blend of sci-fi and fantasy. It is an alternative evolution of american culture splitting of from our world some time in the 1940s and it's a really fun world with fairly well thought out characters (though a bit sexist)... the largest problem this book has is that writing just falls apart occasionally and the plot is occasionally sparse/haphazard... I think this book could have used a bit more development time and editing... that said, it's sweet and fun.

What A Mess!!

This story was a confusing mess about a magical green cat. The author tried for a hip and whimsical story, but it was so forced it was painful.

Retro sci fi- cat lovers

A cat named lucky that is copper green - appears in Phil’s life.

Struggling with the reality that human jobs are being replaced by robots something Phil is grappling with at he very start.

Phil finds himself memsmorized by this cat.

Following lucky the cat and ending up at a wrestling pit and ending up face to face with a naked lady in maroon tights.

What has this cat got Phil into?
and why is the cat green?
what is a male female wrestling pit?
why are the wrestlers naked for it?

Giving a 60’s cool cat vibe -(like starsky and hutch), love that, however was/is it normal to follow a random cat just because?

Seems like the setting had become seedy and he’s asking about a cat, I’m laughing so hard,
read the room Phil.

I have to say this is a first of its kind for me and I’m loving it reaching chapter 3.

In the end I found this to be a very dated , it has a very strong setting, however I was not enjoying the plot and was waiting for something more mysterious to happen for Phil.

A fun retro sci fi read for cat lovers.

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