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best of fritz leiberThe Best of Fritz Leiber
by FRITZ LEIBER
With a special introduction by POUL ANDERSON
NELSON DOUBLEDAY, Inc. Garden City, New York
COPYSIGHT й 1974 BY FRITZ LEIBER
All Rights Reserved
Published by arrangement with
Ballantine Books
Division of Random House, Inc.
201 East 50th Street
New York, NY 10022
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
Introduction: The Wizard of Nehwon-Poul Anderson
Gonna Roll The Bones
Sanity
WantedЧAn Enemy
The Man Who Never Grew Young
The Ship Sails at Midnight
The Enchanted Forest
Coming Attraction
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
storiesЧthe most important of such collections at thatЧmy reaction was
inappropriately inelegant: УHuh?Ф 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 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 hasnТt come to
hear, or read, him. But heТll try to avoid boring platitudes. If heТs lucky,
heТll even convey a slight extra insight, which will help that audience
appreciate the visitor and what heТll say a little bit more than they might