4 Novels by Fritz Leiber
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Overview: Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft’s orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy.
Genre: Fiction, Sci-Fi
A Spectre Is Haunting Texas:
Scully Christopher Crockett La Cruz is an actor, fortune seeker & adventurer from the isolated orbital technocratic democracies of Circumluna & the Bubbles Congeries. He lands in what he believes to be Canada to reclaim family mining interests. He discovers Canada is now N. Texas & what remains of civilization in N. America is ruled by primitive, backslapping, bigger than life anti-intellectual "good ole boys" convinced of their own moral superiority.
In the tortured version of history known to the giant hormone-boosted Anglo-Saxon inhabitants who rule a diminutive Mexican underclass, the original Texas had secretly ruled the pre-nuclear war USA since 1845: "Of it was never given out to the general public in the states, who never had no brains or guts nohow & flustered easy, that this assumption of leadership was annexation–but it was always known to the Speaker of the House & the senators who counted in Washington that secretest treaty Texas was boss…With the coming of the 3rd World War & the atomization of Washington, New York, San Francisco & so forth, secrecy became unnecessary."
Texas escaped the USA’s nuclear destruction because of the foresight of Lyndon I. An emormous bunker known as the Houston-Carlsbad Caverns-Denver-Kansas City-Little Rock Pentagram & now referred to simply as the Texas Bunker had saved the heartland during a war that destroyed the American coasts, Europe, Russia, China & Africa. Texas then conquered the rest of the continent, tho Hawaii & Cuba remain stubbornly unconquered.
Bread Overhead:
Leiber slyly imagines a near-future when giant machines not only harvest the wheat field, but grind flour and bake bread on the spot — the ultimate in big farming. In this toasted tomorrow, the highly-mechanized Puffy Products is bent on producing the supremely lightest loaf. The story is what happens if bread isn’t just airy, but pumped full of lighter-than-air helium. Leiber (Ships to the Stars) didn’t often bake up such a souffle of spoof, but he’s a master in the kitchen. And "Bread Overhead" has just enough to say about human nature to be filling, besides.
Destiny Times Three:
How can Thorn fight a dream foe — risking life and sanity, that is exactly what he sets out to do . . . and his shrewd tactics and reckless daring create a pulse-hammering story against an all to real opponent!
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