Try And Change The Past (1958)
There is an infinite number of paths through a lens between an object point and its image point—and no matter how many changes of path you make, have you changed anything?
A Deskful of Girls (1958)
The Number of the Beast (1958)
He had to get the criminal’s number—but the wrong number meant his own number was up!
Damnation Morning (1959)
Good and Evil merge in a silver spinning … and a sign on the forehead shall be the mark … and Eternity will beckon a man on Damnation Morning
The Mind Spider (1959)
Togetherness was more than a slogan for the descendants of Grandfather Horn. It was a unique and enriching hereditary development—until the fearful intrusion of… The Mind Spider
The Oldest Soldier (1960)
Max told us he had seen the rockets’ red glare at Fort McHenry … that he would be with the South Martians when the time came for them to storm Copernicus in the Second Colonial War … that he would be in a foxhole outside Copeybawa a billion years from now.… “Thank God,” I said to myself, “for all screwballs.”
When The Change-Winds Blow (1964)
A story about the future and the past, a seer and that which was seen; poignant and evocative.
Black Corridor (1967)
He was being tested, that was sure. But for what? By whom? And at what cost to his life?
8/∞ – Eight Stories of the Change War has 7 illustrations.
Fritz Leiber Jr. (1910-1992) was born in Chicago to the actors Fritz Leiber and Virginia Bronson Leiber. He studied philosophy at the University of Chicago. In 1936, he initiated a brief, intense correspondence with H. P. Lovecraft, who encouraged and influenced him before Lovecraft died in March, 1937.