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Poor Superman

A Pail of Air

The Foxholes of Mars

The Big Holiday

The Night He Cried

The Big Trek

Space-Time for Springers

Try and Change the Past

A Deskful of Girls

Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee

Little Old Miss Macbeth Mariana

The Man Who Made Friends With Electricity

The Good New Days

America the Beautiful

Afterword




The Wizard of Nehwon

WHEN I was first asked to write an introduction to a volume of Fritz Leiber storiesтАФthe most important
of such collections at thatтАФmy reaction was inappropriately inelegant: тАЬHuh?тАЭ I still think it had a
fundamental tightness. How can anybody properly comment on the work of one who is not only his
senior in the profession by a good many years, but is universally acknowledged to be among its three or


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four all-time titans?

Yet this was an honor I could not decline. It was like being in a physics department back around 1935
and invited to introduce a series of guest lectures by Einstein. A person hi that position realizes the
audience hasnтАЩt come to hear, or read, him. But heтАЩll try to avoid boring platitudes. If heтАЩs lucky, heтАЩll