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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1975

Pages
  
204 pp

Author
  
Fritz Leiber

Publisher
  
DAW Books


Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Originally published
  
1975

Preceded by
  
The Book of Fritz Leiber

Cover artist
  
Jack Gaughan

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Genres
  
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Essay

Similar
  
Fritz Leiber books, Fantasy books

The Second Book of Fritz Leiber is a collection of short stories and articles by Fritz Leiber. It was first published in paperback in January 1975 by DAW Books. It was later gathered together with The Book of Fritz Leiber into the hardcover omnibus collection The Book of Fritz Leiber, Volume ! & !! (Gregg Press, 1980)..

Contents

The book consists of five fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories alternating with six related articles, together with a foreword by the author. Some pieces were original to the collection. Others were originally published in the magazines Astounding Science Fiction for September 1950, Science Digest for April 1961, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine for February 1961, and The Arkham Sampler for Spring 1948, and the anthology Science Fiction Thinking Machines (1954).

Contents

  • "Foreword"
  • "The Lion and the Lamb" (1950)
  • "The Mighty Tides" (1961)
  • "Trapped in the Sea of Stars"
  • "Fafhrd and Me" (1963)
  • "Belsen Express"
  • "Ingmar Bergman: Fantasy Novelist" (1974)
  • "Scream Wolf" (1961)
  • "Those Wild Alien Words: II"
  • "The Mechanical Bride" (1954)
  • "Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin" (1963)
  • "A Defense of Werewolves" (1948)
  • Awards

    The collection won the 1976 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story. The story "Belsen Express" won the 1976 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.

    References

    The Second Book of Fritz Leiber Wikipedia