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The Change War (Change War)
by
Fritz Leiber
Note: the contents are different than the 1983 Ace edition "Changewar".
Contents:
Introduction essay by John Silbersack
No Great Magic
The Oldest Soldier
Knight to Move
Damnation Morning
Try and Change the Past
A Deskful of Girls
The Number of the Beast
The Haunted Future
The Mind Spider
Black Corridor
Contents:
Introduction essay by John Silbersack
No Great Magic
The Oldest Soldier
Knight to Move
Damnation Morning
Try and Change the Past
A Deskful of Girls
The Number of the Beast
The Haunted Future
The Mind Spider
Black Corridor
Hardcover, 189 pages
Published
by Gregg Press
(first published May 1983)
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Oct 10, 2010
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Recommends it for:
sci/fi fans, time travel fans, Fritz Leiber fans
A very enjoyable and well written series of short stories. These fit into the "future time travellers need to either fix the past or make sure some future baddie doesn't undo the past" type of story. Lots of fantasy/SF authors have taken stabs at this genre, and this is a moderately successful work. Of course the stories are now about 40 years old, and they creak a bit as a result. Regardless, Leiber fans will enjoy these, and I'd also recommend to those who like the time-travel genre generally....more
Cool idea of a secret war that stretches through time, but Leiber keeps it so vague what the various sides want that you aren't sure if you can or should be rooting for anybody, so you start to wonder why you are bothering at all.
Stories jump all over the place and there are almost no reoccurring characters, so it just gets very big, cosmic and vague.
Simon Hawkes 'Time Wars' series did it better.
Stories jump all over the place and there are almost no reoccurring characters, so it just gets very big, cosmic and vague.
Simon Hawkes 'Time Wars' series did it better.
I think he handled the time travel OK, but it's a bit difficult to get a handle on time travel in a bunch of short stories...there are all kinds of conundrums that present themselves if you start thinking seriously about time travel and he never goes too close to those. I would like to find a full length novel of Leiber.
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Fritz Leiber 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. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser; he returned to this series at various points in...more
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