The Second Book of Fritz Leiber
Cover of The Second Book of Fritz Leiber | |
Author | Fritz Leiber |
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Cover artist | Jack Gaughan |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy, science fiction, horror |
Publisher | DAW Books |
Publication date | 1975 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 204 pp |
Preceded by | The Book of Fritz Leiber |
The Second Book of Fritz Leiber is a collection of short stories and articles by American writer Fritz Leiber. It was first published in paperback in January 1975 by DAW Books. It was later gathered together with The Book of Fritz Leiber into the hardcover omnibus collection The Book of Fritz Leiber, Volume I & II (Gregg Press, 1980).
The book consists of five fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories alternating with six related articles, together with a foreword by the author. Some pieces were original to the collection. Others were originally published in the magazines Astounding Science Fiction for September 1950, Science Digest for April 1961, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine for February 1961, and The Arkham Sampler for Spring 1948, and the anthology Science Fiction Thinking Machines (1954).
Contents
- "Foreword"
- "The Lion and the Lamb" (1950)
- "The Mighty Tides" (1961)
- "Trapped in the Sea of Stars"
- "Fafhrd and Me" (1963)
- "Belsen Express"
- "Ingmar Bergman: Fantasy Novelist" (1974)
- "Scream Wolf" (1961)
- "Those Wild Alien Words: II"
- "The Mechanical Bride" (1954)
- "Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin" (1963)
- "A Defense of Werewolves" (1948)
Awards
The collection won the 1976 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. The story "Belsen Express" won the 1976 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.
References
- The Second Book of Fritz Leiber title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
External links
- Fantastic Fiction entry
- v
- t
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- Conjure Wife (1943)
- Destiny Times Three (1945)
- The Big Time (1961)
- The Wanderer (1964)
- Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
- A Specter Is Haunting Texas (1969)
- Our Lady of Darkness (1977)
Gray Mouser
- Two Sought Adventure (1957)
- Swords and Deviltry (1970)
- Swords Against Death (1970)
- Swords in the Mist (1968)
- Swords Against Wizardry (1968)
- The Swords of Lankhmar (1968)
- Swords and Ice Magic (1977)
- Bazaar of the Bizarre (1978)
- The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988)
- Swords Against the Shadowland (Robin Wayne Bailey) (1998)
collections
- Night's Black Agents (1947)
- The Best of Fritz Leiber (1974)
- The Book of Fritz Leiber (1974)
- The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1975)
- Heroes and Horrors (1978)
- "Coming Attraction" (1950)
- "A Pail of Air" (1951)
- "The Moon is Green" (1952)
- "The Unholy Grail" (1962)
- "Bazaar of the Bizarre" (1963)
- "To Arkham and the Stars" (1966)
- "Gonna Roll the Bones" (1967)
- "Ill Met in Lankhmar" (1970)
- "The Snow Women" (1970)
- "Midnight by the Morphy Watch" (1974)
- "Belsen Express" (1975)
- "Catch That Zeppelin!" (1975)
- "The Terror from the Depths" (1976)
- Weird Woman (1944)
- Night of the Eagle (1962)
- Witches' Brew (1980)
- The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1995)
- Bibliography
- Fritz Leiber, Sr. (father)