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Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
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culture · American fantasy, horror, and SF writer (1910–1992) · novelist · journalist · science fiction writer · playwright · poet · stage actor · film actor · writer · actor · also Fritz Leiber, Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr., Fritz Leiber Junior, Leiber
Born 24 December 1910 · Died 5 September 1992 · Q313185
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Armon Jarles, there is only the cosmos and the electronic entities that constitute it, without soul or purpose, save so far as neuronic minds impose purpose upon it.“Armon Jarles, the Hierarchy embodies the highest form of such purpose.“Armon Jarles, the supernatural and the idealized have one trait in common. They are not. There is only reality.
Awarded Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel for Conjure Wife (2019).
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“Armon Jarles, there is only the cosmos and the electronic entities that constitute it, without soul or purpose, save so far as neuronic minds impose purpose upon it.“Armon Jarles, the Hierarchy embodies the highest form of such purpose.“Armon Jarles, the supernatural and the idealized have one trait in common. They are not. There is only reality.”
Publishers Weekly: Books by Fritz Leiber and Complete Book Reviews
Awarded Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel for Conjure Wife (2019).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Collection for Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories (2011).
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Los Angeles Times: Fritz Leiber, fantasy master
Publishers Weekly: Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2001).
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Awarded Geffen Award (1999).
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Died 1992-09-05.
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The last year of his life, Leiber married his second wife, Margo Skinner, a journalist and poet with whom he had been friends for years
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(named in 1987); and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers
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Awarded Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (1987).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Collection for The Ghost Light (1985).
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Awarded Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (1981).
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Awarded British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction for The Button Molder (1980).
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Awarded World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Our Lady of Darkness (1978).
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Returned to his original form with a fantasy novel set in modern-day San Francisco, Our Lady of Darkness, which is about a writer of weird tales who must deal with the death of his wife and his recovery from alcoholis
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Awarded British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction for The Second Book of Fritz Leiber (1976).
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Awarded World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction for Belsen Express (1976).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Short Story for Catch That Zeppelin! (1976).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for Catch That Zeppelin! (1976).
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Awarded World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (1976).
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In The Adventures of Alyx) were in part inspired by Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and Alyx made guest appearances in two of Leiber's stories
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Marc Laidlaw wrote that he "was shocked to find him occupying one small room of a seedy San Francisco residence hotel, its squalor relieved mainly by walls of books"
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Collection for The Best of Fritz Leiber (1975).
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“You have been told that the Great God rules the universe—earth and sky. I tell you the Great God is fake!”
Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novella for Ill Met in Lankhmar (1971).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novella for Ill Met in Lankhmar (1971).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novella for Ship of Shadows (1970).
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And 1971 for "Ship of Shadows" (1969) and "Ill Met in Lankhmar" (1970)
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“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”
Precipitated Leiber's permanent relocation to San Francisco and exacerbated his longstanding alcoholism after twelve years of fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novelette for Gonna Roll the Bones (1968).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Gonna Roll the Bones (1968).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Wanderer (1965).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Big Time (1958).
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The Big Time won the Hugo Award for Best Novel
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The Leibers returned to Los Angeles
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Leiber was Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention in New Orleans
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His first two novels were serialized in Unknown (the supernatural horror-oriented Conjure Wife, inspired by his experiences on the faculty of Occidental College) and Astounding Science Fiction (Gather, Darkness)
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The family moved to California, where Leiber served as a speech and drama instructor at Occidental College during the 1941–1942 academic year
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Initiated a brief, intense correspondence with H
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Born 1910-12-24.
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