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Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) is best known as a fantasy writer, but his achievements and influence are also considerable in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his major SF works is the Change War series, about rival time-traveling armies locked in a bitter, age-old war for control of existence; the battles frequently alter the course of human history. The most important work of Leiber's Change War series is the Hugo Award-winning novel <I>The Big Time</I>, in which doctors, entertainers, and wounded soldiers find themselves treacherously trapped with an activated atomic bomb inside the Place, a room existing outside of space-time. It's not one of Leiber's strongest novels: the cutesy-girlish narrative voice is unconvincing, while the demands of describing time travel and time paradoxes inevitably strain the prose. But <I>The Big Time</I> is a tense, claustrophobic SF mystery, and possibly the ultimate locked-room whodunit.<p> In addition to the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, Fritz Leiber received the Grand Master of Fantasy (Gandalf) Award, the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award, and the Grand Master Nebula Award. <I>--Cynthia Ward</I>
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This war is the Change War, a war of time travelers — in fact, our private name for being in this war is being on the Big Time. Our Soldiers fight by going back to change the past, or even ahead to change the future, in ways to...
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The Big Time is a fairly inscrutable novel, burdened by a concept far too large for its scant 140 pages. Yet, for all of its flaws -- a poorly voiced narrator, a cast of quickly sketched characters, an antiquated understanding of gender relations -- there's something bizarrely compelling about this...more...]]>
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This is supposed to be one of Leiber's best, with a lot of philosophical stuff in the action... So I am looking forward to reading it now:-)
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While the ending was descent, the interesting and the general underpinnings of The Big Time universe was interesting, there was simply not enough time spent developing all of the thymes in the book.
4 stars [20% for the universe:] + 2 stars [80% execution:]...more...]]>
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I was a stupid kid. Big time.]]>
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The Big Time is the way it renders history fluid and endlessly mutable; Lily knows of at least two alternate futures for her alone, while Greta has seen empires dissolve in a blink. The reader is told "It's this way: the Big Time is a train, and The Little Time i...more...]]>
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I was never into sci-fi, but I like Leiber's fantasy stuff, which contains just the right amount of "winking" at the genre itself, so I picked up this Hugo award winning book for the plane ride to Korea and found it very engaging.
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