Fritz Leiber: Stories

Is it possible to have a world without moral values? Or does lack of morality become a moral value, also?

Don't wait to "Get 'em while they're hot." By then, it is too late to get them of all!

Have you found out about the Big Engine? It's all around us, you know--can't you hear it even now?

It's been going on for a billion years and it will last another billion or so. Up and down the timeline, the two sides--"Spiders" and "Snakes"--battle endlessly to change the future and the past. Our lives, our memories, are their battleground. And in the midst of the war is the Place, outside space and time, where Greta Forzane and the other Entertainers provide solace and r-&-r for tired time warriors.

The Staff of Life suddenly and disconcertingly sprouted wings --and mankind had to eat crow!

Before passing judgment, just ask yourself one question: Would you like answering for humanity any better than Ernie Meeker did?

Women will always go on trying to attract men. even when the future seems to have no future!

Here is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer's apprentice.

Before science, there was superstition. After science, there will be. what? The biggest, most staggering, MOST FINAL fact of them all!

They are the aliens among us--and their ways and wonders are stranger than extraterrestrials!