Coming Attraction: Restored Classics to Go Edition

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In a ravaged future New York, British visitor British Barter is dragged into a city where masks are fashion, armor, and social code all at once. After rescuing a masked young woman from a grotesque attack by a coupe fitted with fishhooks and driven by masked youths, he is drawn into her world of radiation scars, warped customs, and dangerous desire. She invites him to her apartment that night, hinting she needs his help, while the police respond with a chillingly casual attitude to violence and corruption. As Barter moves through this grim landscape of beggars, deformity, and suspicion, he learns how Americans have adapted to concealment, reading identity from scraps of detail and turning disguise into a national obsession. From women's fashions to men dressing as women, masking has become inseparable from war, radiation gear, wrestling, advertising, and sexual politics. Against a backdrop of atomic rivalry, political tension, and space-age ambition, the novel becomes a sharp, unsettling satire of postwar civilization, where identity is unstable and every appearance hides a threat, a longing, or a lie. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
In a ravaged future New York, British visitor British Barter is dragged into a city where masks are fashion, armor, and social code all at once. After rescuing a masked young woman from a grotesque attack by a coupe fitted with fishhooks and driven by masked youths, he is drawn into her world of ...

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Fritz Leiber was an American writer born in 1910 into a theatrical family, a background that gave him an early feel for performance, language, and the uncanny ways people tell stories about themselves. After studying at the University of Chicago and briefly pursuing the stage, he turned increasingly toward writing, building a career that spanned more than four decades and helped shape modern fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He became one of the great stylists of speculative fiction, admired for his wit, psychological insight, and ability to blend the eerie with the everyday. His work often explores fear, desire, temptation, loneliness, urban alienation, and the unstable boundary between reality and illusion, making his fiction feel strikingly modern even today. He was especially influential in giving fantasy a more sardonic, human scale and in proving that genre stories could be both entertaining and deeply literary. Leiber's legacy endures in the many writers who followed his example of combining imagination with emotional complexity, and his stories still resonate with readers living in a world shaped by uncertainty, anxiety, and competing versions of truth. Readers who enjoy intelligent, atmospheric speculative fiction with sharp prose, dark humor, and a keen eye for human weakness will find him especially rewarding.

Fritz Leiber was an American writer born in 1910 into a theatrical family, a background that gave him an early feel for performance, language, and the uncanny ways people tell stories about themselves. After studying at the University of Chicago and briefly pursuing the stage, he turned increasin...

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