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	Fritz Leiber
		An interesting feature of The Big Time is that though it is about a war between two factions changing and rechanging history throughout the Universe, all the action takes place in a small bubble of isolated space-time, about the size of a theatrical stage, with only a handful of characters.
		(Fafhrd was based on Leiber himself and the Mouser on his friend Harry Fischer.) Although in many ways the stories now appear somewhat clichéd, these stories were, in fact, the progenitors of many of the tropes of the sword and sorcery genre.
		Leiber had married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Fritz Leiber[?] was born in 1938.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Fritz_Leiber.html (420 words)

	Fritz Leiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leiber married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Fritz Leiber was born in 1938.
		Leiber was heavily influenced by H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Graves in the first two decades of his career.
		Many people believed that Leiber was living in poverty on skid row, but the truth of the matter was that Leiber preferred to live simply in the city, spending his money on dining, movies and travel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fritz_Leiber (999 words)

	Fritz Leiber - SCIFIPEDIA
		Author Fritz Leiber (December 24, 1910–1992) was a rarity in speculative fiction in that he was highly regarded not only for his science fiction but also for his fantasy and horror fiction.
		Leiber began writing the Changewar stories during the 1950s, pitting two groups of time travelers against one another in a battle to control history.
		Leiber's most memorable fantasy is the series of stories featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, two professional thieves in and about the city of Lankhmar, who survive numerous dangers, natural and supernatural.
	scifipedia.scifi.com /index.php/Fritz_Leiber (467 words)

	Fritz Leiber Criticism
		The element of change and the effect it has on human society is a persistent theme in Leiber's fiction, and he is one of the few science-fiction writers of his generation to consistently stay abreast of the cultural changes around him.
		In Leiber's best fictions he is able to endow this instability, this American capacity for change, with a profound supernaturalism that can turn the most freakish accidents of urban chance into nightmares of paranoic intensity.
		Leiber's imaginative and playful range of thought brightens up the topics he chooses, though his reviews and the essays on foreign words and King Lear are not particularly stimulating or new.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Fritz_Leiber (1116 words)

	Leiber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fritz Leiber was one of the creators of literate sword and stories--stories that were great fun to read, but were also well-written and built around characters with a certain dimension and depth.
		Fritz Leiber and the birth of a barbarian
		Leiber was born in Chicago on December 24, 1910 to Shakespearean actors Fritz Leiber, Sr.
	www.starhaven1.net /Leiber.htm (478 words)

	Fritz Leiber -- In Memoriam
		Fritz Leiber, one of the most versatile and unorthodox writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror, died on 5 September 1992, at the age of 81.
		Leiber was born in Chicago on 24 December 1910.
		His parents, Fritz Sr and Virginia, were members of Robert Mantell's Shakespearean repertory company, and Leiber's early years were filled with the trappings of Shakespearean drama and the theatre, which would later influence his work.
	www.waldeneast.fsnet.co.uk /memfritz.htm (726 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Wanderer
		Fritz Leiber was born in 1910 to parents who worked in the theatre.
		Leiber's jaunty prose provides a sly, ironic (and welcome) counter-point to the grim proceedings (though the street lingo that he weaves into the narrative has grown dated).
		Leiber's pessimism about humanity's role in the universe adds to the novel's revolutionary luster, as it directly undermines the presumption of many golden age SF writers that the universe was just waiting passively for humans to colonize it.
	www.sfsite.com /03b/wan100.htm (774 words)

	Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leiber wrote all the stories except for 10,000 words of The Lords of Quarmall that were penned by Fischer.
		One of Leiber's original motives was to have a couple of fantasy heroes closer to true human stature than the likes of Howard's Conan the Barbarian or Burroughs's Tarzan.
		A catclaw is one of two weapons weilded by Fritz Leiber's fictional character the Gray Mouser (the other one being the rapier Scalpel).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser (1284 words)

	The Library Edition - Summer 1998
		Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr., a significant figure in the development and growth of 20th century fantasy, science, supernatural, and horror fiction, has donated his personal collection to the UH Libraries.
		Within the Fritz Leiber Collection of the UH Libraries Special Collections and Archives Department, it is possible to trace many of his stories from his preliminary notes through several drafts of working manuscripts to publication.
		Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) and his son, UH faculty member Justin Leiber, donated the collection to UH between 1984 and 1997.
	info.lib.uh.edu /dev/libed/1998/summer/leiber.htm (498 words)

	Collecting Fritz Leiber by Don Herron - errata page
		Leiber was one of the last and possibly the most brilliant of the young authors who gravitated into the correspondence circle of the already legendary H. Lovecraft.
		Written in 1936 when Leiber was starting out as a writer, it bears marks of the influence of his correspondence with Lovecraft.
		The first editions of Fritz Leiber contain a marvelous array of imaginative fiction that has enthralled both readers and fellow writers for over half a century, novels and stories extrapolated from a fascinating life, absorbing and transmuting each influence into work incontrovertibly, delightfully, darkly his own.
	www.donherron.com /fritz_errata.html (969 words)

	Fritz Leiber: Ill Met in Lankhmar - an infinity plus review
		Fritz Leiber is dead, and for all his faults (literary or otherwise: his flair for spending money on drink springs to mind as an example of the latter category), he should be entitled to the dignity of a place in the fantasy archive.
		His sex scenes are sexy; his cities (and Leiber was a man in love with the urban, as the more horrific side of his oeuvre might confirm) are bustling with roustabouts and vagabonds.
		Leiber might be in a better place, but his stories have found a new home for the new Millennium.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/illmet.htm (753 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The First & Second Books of Lankhmar
		Leiber is also recognized as one of the genre's more literate and earlier prose stylists.
		Leiber was additionally one of the first writers of fantasy to depict his characters as flawed, sometimes seriously, revealing the full range of human foibles that, as in real life, can vacillate, often depending upon circumstances, between alternate strengths and weaknesses.
		Finally, there is a decided erotic tone to many of the tales, and while Leiber occasionally missteps, as in the late story "The Mouser Goes Below," into adolescent male fantasy, for the most part his eroticism is balanced by deprecating wit and barbs directed at any form of hubris, sexual or otherwise.
	www.sfsite.com /07a/fgm131.htm (1721 words)

	Bullet With His Name - Fritz Leiber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fritz Leiber's science-fiction novelet "Bullet With His Name" falls in the long and fascinating tradition of testing gifts, loaded goodies tossed in our lap — which may be fortunate or unfortunate but usually surprising.
		Fritz Leiber often playfully includes side-windows or loose-ends, so even single stories more tightly plotted than his sprawling Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series may leave you entirely satisfied — but still looking askance at something that doesn't resolve.
		Leiber's testing gifts given to the main character could have been given to some other representative fellow; he is a conscript rather than an adventurer-hero deliberately attempting to climb a glass mountain, wager with God or Devil, or anything like that.
	www.troynovant.com /Franson/Leiber/Bullet-With-His-Name.html (644 words)

	Fritz Leiber Biography and Summary
		Fritz Leiber, Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr., Francis Lathrop, Fritz (Reuter) Leiber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Fritz (Reuter) Leiber, Jr.
		Fritz Leiber is one of the durable masters of science fiction.
		Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr.(December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction.
	www.bookrags.com /Fritz_Leiber (400 words)

	Bookwarp - Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comic Book & Graphic Novel Reviews
		Fritz Leiber The story of a future 500 years hence where science has become institutionalized as mysticism for a populace kept ignorant by the ruling priesthood, Darkness hasn't aged very well.
		On the other hand, Leiber always manages to pull a rabbi out of his hat, turning the trick of making fine entertainment out of what would be putty in anyone else's hands.
		THE WANDERER Fritz Leiber Classic novel about an alien visitation, it's kind of the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead of science-fiction: the heavyweight sci-fi story is one we barely see, about an intergalactic war.
	www.bookwarp.com /reviews_l.htm (572 words)

	Fritz Leiber's The Button Molder
		An examination of Fritz Leiber as a writer in the M.R. James tradition would inevitably concentrate on his magnificent novel Our Lady of Darkness (1977), which started out as "a short Jamesian horror story and just grew", as Leiber said in a letter to Foundation magazine (see my article in GandS 20).
		Soon Leiber settles in and resumes his favourite hobby of roof-top astronomy, but a series of five odd events on the roof mar his happiness in his new home, even though all but the final one have rational explanations.
		After each of these experiences Leiber returns to his apartment and is mildly surprised by "the beginning of a noise" and a half-seen "thin dark figure" which slips along the wall.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~pardos/ArchiveLeiber.html (2770 words)

	Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Fritz Leiber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leiber became interested in writing through correspondence with a college friend, with whom he collaborated in 1939 in the creation of the heroic-fantasy duo Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.
		Leiber won a further Hugo for "Ship of Shadows" (1969) and completed the double of Hugo and Nebula awards for the third time with "Catch that Zeppelin!" (1975).
		Noted also for his fantasies in modern settings, such as "Belsen Express" (1975), Leiber was the most influential model for the sudden creation in the 1980s of the subgenre of contemporary (or urban) fantasy.
	www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=75 (363 words)

	Fritz Leiber: A Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Notes that Leiber transformed the sword and sorcery genre to a level of "artistic sophistication, in terms of both literary elegance and psychological depth." Notes Leiber's success, but also the difficulties he faced in his career, and his periods of alcoholism.
		Leiber's girl is a metaphor for the excesses of twentieth-century capitalism.
		Leiber utilizes modern technology in the story, but ultimately, the story is about "a human being who has lived his whole life in the shadow of the cosmic, and is only just realizing it as he nears the end of his life, who experiences and mediates the horror.
	www.gothicpress.com /leiber.html (6021 words)

	The Mana Bros. Fritz Leiber Jr. Page
		One of the greatet writers to grace the field of science fiction (and fantasy, and horror), Fritz Leiber Jr.
		A lover of the fantastic since his youth, Leiber was probably the last to enter the circle of writers, poets and simple fans gathering around H.P. Lovecraft, with whom he briefly corresponded.
		Leiber's first literary achievement comes in 1939, with the short story "Two Sought Adventure", published by Unknown and being the first published (but almost certainly not the first written) episode in the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series.
	www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/zenith/134/leiber.htm (680 words)

	Welcome to Lankhmar Home of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
		Leiber has found a knack for telling just enough to stand your hair on end but not so much as to become boring with all of the finite detail of some of his compatriots.
		Gary was so impressed with the Fritz Leiber story line that he incorporated it into the "Dungeons and Dragons" framework and defined many of the key characters as Gods or Demi-Gods to be used with the game.
		Fritz Leiber certainly put a lot of spunk into his books and heroes and if your looking to fill that swords and sorcery desire that has been building up in you for a while now, I would highly recommend seeking these novels out.
	www.stormbringer.net /mouser.html (2480 words)

	ERBzin-e 210: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold ~ ERB C.H.A.S.E.R.
		Fritz Leiber at first seems like an odd choice for this project--his later works dwelled increasingly on cute wordplay and baroque images-- but I have to admit that I had forgotten what a masterful wordsmith he really was.
		The most interesting side of Leiber’s fiction is his pre-occupation with the threat of modern urban horror, city life and its web of terrors gradually corrupting the psyche: The Automatic Pistol (1940) featured a gun with a life of its own, and Smoke Ghost (1941) presented the tensions of a pressured metropolitan worker.
		Fritz Leiber was a gracious man, willing to give time to his many fans who would queue to speak to him at Fantasy and Science Fiction conventions.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/chaser3/erbz210.html (2623 words)

	LEIBER, Fritz Jr. - personal data
		Leiber's work, because a great deal of it was short in form, was often anthologized and continues to be.
		Leiber's work in all three of the fields above is usually original, often satirical, always psychological, and studied by his peers on whom the work has had great influence, collectively.
		Fritz Leiber was a major, popular writer and his work will be available for years to come.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/leiber.html (423 words)

	Fritz Leiber Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The collection was donated to the University of Houston by Fritz Leiber and Justin Leiber, his son, between 1984 and 1997.
		The collection was compiled from 41 boxes of previously unprocessed Fritz Leiber materials, 23 boxes of Fritz Leiber papers which were processed in 1991-1992, and several boxes of letters which were donated by Franklin C. MacKnight from 1984-1991.
		Fritz Leiber's addiction rehabilitation documentation, notes on his eye surgery, as well as death certificate, funeral/cremation/memorial services arrangements.
	info.lib.uh.edu /sca/collections/faids/html/leiberf.html (1154 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The First Book of Lankhmar (Millennium Fantasy Masterworks S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leiber was an intelligent and gifted writer who, throughout his adult life, used the sensitive barbarian hulk and the "not as clever as he thinks he is" urban rogue as voices for the two sides of himself.
		Somehow Leiber manages to keep the same consistent tone in these stories, in which he was learning his craft, as those from later in his distinguished career.
		Leiber was able to describe the weird, the wonderful and the exotic in ways that hold your interest and never becomes overblown.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857983270 (1243 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Fritz Leiber
		Fritz Leiber has won awards too numerous to count, including the coveted Hugo and Nebula(R), and was honored as a lifetime Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
		Hugo and Nebula award-winning Fritz Leiber is a science-fiction grand master with an unparalleled ability to discern the stranger side of the universe.
		Drawing many of his own themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that describes the sub-genre he would more than help create.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/FritzLeibereBooks.htm?r=1A17 (1602 words)

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