Author · 1910–1992
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction (1910–1992). Born in Chicago.
Our catalogue lists 36 books by Fritz Leiber, mostly Victorian science fiction, classic fantasy and time-travel fiction. They span 1950 to 2004. The most-read is The Big Time (1958). 30 titles are free to read on Project Gutenberg, and 13 have free LibriVox audiobooks.
Books by Fritz Leiber
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The Big Time
Fritz Leiber
Swords and Deviltry
Fritz Leiber
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Conjure Wife
Fritz Leiber
Gather, Darkness!
Fritz Leiber, Jonathan Davis
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No Great Magic
Fritz Leiber
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The Creature from Cleveland Depths
Fritz Leiber
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The Night of the Long Knives
Fritz Leiber
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A Pail of Air
Fritz Leiber
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The 64-Square Madhouse
Fritz Leiber
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Destiny times three
Fritz Leiber
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The Green Millennium
Fritz Leiber
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Kreativity For Kats
Fritz Leiber
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Nice Girl with 5 Husbands
Fritz Leiber
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The Moon is Green
Fritz Leiber
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Bullet with His Name
Fritz Leiber
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The Last Letter
Fritz Leiber
Lean Times in Lankhmar
Fritz Leiber
Gonna Roll the Bones
David Wiesner, Fritz Leiber
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3 Weird SF Stories by Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber
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Bread Overhead
Fritz Leiber
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Coming Attraction
Fritz Leiber
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A Bad Day for Sales
Fritz Leiber
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Martians, keep out!
Fritz Leiber
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Appointment In Tomorrow
Fritz Leiber
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Pipe Dream
Fritz Leiber
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Yesterday House
Fritz Leiber
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Friends and Enemies
Fritz Leiber
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X Marks the Pedwalk
Fritz Leiber
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Later Than You Think
Fritz Leiber
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What's He Doing in There?
Fritz Leiber
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A Hitch in Space
Fritz Leiber
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The Snowbank Orbit
Fritz Leiber
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Time In the Round
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Dr. Kometevsky's Day
Fritz Leiber
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The Big Engine
Fritz Leiber
Unholy Grail
Fritz Leiber
Awards
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1976 — Best Short Story, Catch That Zeppelin! (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1975 — Best Novelette, Midnight by the Morphy Watch (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1971 — Best Novella, Ill Met in Lankhmar (winner)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1970 — Best Novella, Ship of Shadows (winner)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1968 — Best Novelette, Gonna Roll the Bones (winner)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1968 — Best Novelette, The Big Time (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1966 — Best Short Story, Stardock (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1965 — Best Novel, The Wanderer (winner)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1963 — Best Dramatic Presentation, Night of the Eagle (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1963 — Best Short Story, The Unholy Grail (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1962 — Best Short Story, Scylla's Daughter (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1959 — Best Novelette, A Deskful of Girls (nominee)
- ✦Hugo Awards 1959 — Best Short Story, Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-TAH-Tee (nominee)
- 🏆Hugo Awards 1958 — Best Novel, The Big Time (winner)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1983 — Best Novella, Horrible Imaginings (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1978 — Best Novelette, A Rite of Spring (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1976 — Best Short Story, Catch That Zeppelin! (nominee)
- 🏆Nebula Awards 1971 — Best Novella, Ill Met in Lankhmar (winner)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1970 — Best Novella, Ship of Shadows (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1968 — Best Novelette, Gonna Roll the Bones (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1968 — Best Short Story, Answering Service (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1966 — Best Novelette, Four Ghosts in Hamlet (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1966 — Best Short Story, Cyclops (nominee)
- ✦Nebula Awards 1966 — Best Short Story, The Good New Days (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1991 — Best Collection, The Leiber Chronicles: Fifty Years of Fritz Leiber (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1989 — Best Collection, The Knight and Knave of Swords (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1983 — Best Novella, Horrible Imaginings (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1980 — Best Short Fiction, The Button Molder (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1979 — Best Collection, Heroes and Horrors (nominee)
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1978 — Best Collection, Swords and Ice Magic (nominee)
Biography
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. With writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having coined the term. **Source**: [Fritz Leiber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber) on Wikipedia.