The Snowbank Orbit

by Fritz Leiber

Earth could not stop the Enemy's remorseless advance from outer space. Neither could the Enemy!

19 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2020

About the author

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. 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 his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces--The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A Spectre is Haunting Texas in which a gangling, exo-skeleton-clad actor from the Moon leads a revolution and finds his true love. Leiber's late short fiction, and the fine horror novel Our Lady of Darkness, combine autobiographical issues like his struggle with depression and alcoholism with meditations on the emotional content of the fantastic genres. Leiber's capacity for endless self-reinvention and productive self-examination kept him, until his death, one of the most modern of his sf generation.

Used These Alternate Names: Maurice Breçon, Fric Lajber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Fritz R. Leiber, Fritz Leiber Jun., Фриц Лейбер, F. Lieber, フリッツ・ライバー

Reviews

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantasy listening

A will written fantasy Sci-Fi space opera adventure novella with interesting will developed characters. The story line is set in futuristic space where a planet attacks earth 🌎while five ships are racing across space. I would recommend this novella to anyone looking for a quick read or listen 🎶. Enjoy the adventure of reading or listening 2021
Alexa reads to me due to eye damage and issues from shingles. Take care

[Sara]

Thee fight us from far
from uranus and jupiter
no moon hold snow bank anymore
many news crush many plans
nobody take plam
we fight many galxy to survive
and we will open many grave
walk to make our moon whit
and drive throw peace of galaxy
no oil will be hold any more
mars with us
earth to us
and dove take brush of our olive tree and fly
victory hold to our foot
and we sing many victory poem
over many nights
and we fight over many galaxy
we come back to write many joy poems
to sing to pins and almound
to bird of river of peace
colored with joy
we win