The Big Time
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The Big Time (1958)
You can’t know there’s a war on—for the Snakes coil and Spiders weave to keep you from knowing it’s being fought over your live and dead body!
Chapter 1 – Enter Three Hussars
Chapter 2 – A Right-hand Glove
Chapter 3 – Nine For A Party
Chapter 4 – SOS From Nowhere
Chapter 5 – Sid Insists On Ghostgirls
Chapter 6 – Crete Circa 1300 B.C.
Chapter 7 – Time To Think
Chapter 8 – A Place To Stand
Part 2
Safe outside the cosmos, the Place gave refuge to Soldiers after their raids on history … but now mutiny had turned it into a bomb in a bag!
Synopsis
Chapter 9 – A Locked Room
Chapter 10 – Motives And Opportunities
Chapter 11 – The Western Front, 1917
Chapter 12 – A Big Opportunity
Chapter 13 – The Tiger Is Loose
Chapter 14 – “Now Will You Talk?”
Chapter 15 – Lord Spider
Chapter 16 – The Possibility-Binders
The Big Time was first published in two parts in the March and April, 1958 editions of Galaxy Science Fiction.
The Big Time has 6 illustrations.
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About the author
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.
