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A classic tale featuring two of the most-memorable characters in sword and sorcery, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Over a span of 50 years, the late Fritz Leiber wrote dozens of adventures, set in the fictional city of Lankhmar, featuring the seven-foot-tall barbarian and the diminuitive thief. The stories were recognized with both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

An old professor achieves his dream, but is it but a dream, or the heaven of the god he has chosen to follow.

This Leiber story, loaded with his usual tongue-in-cheek extraploaton takes recent trends in bread making and pushes them to their logical limits. Just how far from wheat can bread get? Listen to this story and see. Of course there are robots involved who uh…. complicate things a bit.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

"I was 100 miles from Nowhere - and I mean that literally - when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be stalking me." In a Post-apocalyptic world, the few people left must be strong. And must not hesitate to kill. Of course, killing another Deathlander was one of the chief pleasures and urges of all the solitary wanders in this vast wasteland. Kill and kill again.

The way we feel about another person or about objects is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object, at all. Often, what we call a "change of heart" comes about sheerly from a change in the many associations which make up our present viewpoint. Now, suppose that these associations could be altered artificially, at the option of the person who was in charge of the process.

What happens when a swindler meets a science fiction fan? If you are not a science fiction enthusiast yourself you may take for granted that what appeared to happen to George Mercer would be the answer, but is that so certain? Fritz Lieber, very much a part of the history of science fiction, and fantasy raises an interesting possibility in this story of a science fiction con man.

A Hitch in Space. Hitch as in hitch hike by Fritz Leiber or hitch as in hiccough - neither is advisable in space.

Fritz Leiber was one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of the mid-twentieth century. One of his frequent themes was "technology gone wrong." In "The Creature from Cleveland Depths", a writer and his wife refuse to move below-ground after the cold-war gets hot. However, he still serves as a consultant for a below-ground company seeking to come up with new "gadgets." His latest product idea is called "The Tickler," a device that is with you at all times to remind you of appointments and "suggests" little motivations to improve efficiency.

Have you ever wondered if perhaps there might be other beings living among us that we can't see or hear? Imagine donning a pair of goggles, and a whole new and strange world appears to you. The protagonists of this story live in LA, so you can imagine what may be lurking there.

One of the remarkable things about Fritz Leiber is the ease with which he writes any kind of story. Science fiction, fantasy, weird: You name it and he's done them all. Just think of "Gather, Darkness", "Scylla's Daughter", and (in the old Unknown) ''Smoke Ghost", and you'll see what we mean. In that last story parlicularly Leiber helped to modernize the tale of terror, to take it out of haunted castles and moldering graveyards and put it into the dark, nightmarish streets of a modern city. ''I'm Looking for Jeff", written much later, belongs in this same category.

"A Pail of Air” by Fritz Leiber is a haunting and poetic science fiction short story set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic Earth where the sun has gone dark. Written in the early 1950s, this atmospheric tale follows a resilient family struggling to survive in a world turned to eternal night, where even breathable air must be collected by hand. Told through the eyes of a young boy, the story captures the stark beauty of isolation, the desperation of survival, and the enduring hope that flickers in humanity’s darkest hours.

"Earth could not stop the Enemy's remorseless advance from outer space. Neither could the Enemy!" Step back in time with this classic space opera from an all-star sci-fi writer in Fritz Leiber.

Dive into a quintessential locked-room mystery, transposed into an unexpected setting. Your introductory guide to this enigma? The charismatic Karen Savage.

Say hello to Lavina Simes, a wholesome appearing midwestern girl, always dressed in black. Lavina has a gift, or curse, that allows her to see into the future. Tragedy has befallen every suitor who pursued her charms. She travels the world with her father, a lifetime Foreign Service officer, and misfortune seems to follow them.

He went where no Martian ever went before - but would he come out - or had he gone for good?

"The Big Time" is a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber. It was awarded the Hugo Award during 1958. The storyline features members of one of two factions, both capable of time travel, engaged in a long-term conflict called "The Change War". Their method of battle involves changing the outcomes of events throughout history (temporal war). The two opposing groups are nicknamed the Spiders and the Snakes after their respective sponsors.

Narrated by John W. Michaels, this short story by Fritz Lieber brings together the forces of pure evil, and two very unlikely heroes: a diminuitive thief and a seven-foot-tall barbarian.

In 1957 when this Fritz Leiber short story appeared in The Original Science Fiction Magazine, gender issues weren’t in the open as they are now. And “love dolls”? Forget that. But Mr. Leiber has managed to suitably weave these issues into this clever tale of Femequin 973, a walking talking replica of a real woman, as “real” as could be imagined back in July of 1957, sent on a mission of revenge.