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FRITZ LEIBER

Catch that Zeppelin!
Friiz Leiber has been writing and selling science-fiction, supernatural-horror, and heroic-fantasy stories for
thirty-seven years. During some of that time he was a resident of Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. For
the past six years, however, he has lived in San Francisco in a small downtown apartment building, from the
seventh-story roof of which he observes the stars through a three-inch refracting telescope. What with San
Francisco's fogs, lights, highrises and other aerial apparitions (seagulls, h@ says, like shooting stars before
dawn and aircraft seeming UFO's in sunset glow) this viewing has led to an equal interest in meterology and
the roofscapes and genera! anatomy and ecology of large citiesтАФone thing leading to another. Afternoons he
spends in walks about the, romantic hilly city.

His growing engrossment in San Francisco has led him to write his first full-scale supernatural-horror novel
sine┬й I943's Conjure Wife. It concerns Thibaut de Castries, a modern black magician who has created a new
brand of the occult based on the malign influences and "black music" generated by tall buildings and large
cities. Our Lady of Darkness (the full-length novel to be published later in 1977 by Putnam's/Berkley after the
appearance of a two-part excerpt, "The Pale Brown Thing," earlier in the year in the pages of The Magazine of
Fantasy and Science Fiction) will involve not only the influences of large cities but also real-life characters
such as Jack

London Ambrose Bierce, Isadora Duncan, Dashiell Ham-mett and Clark AsMon Smith. Nor will his new novel
be

ve rea d eeX aad f ┬░f ' ' Cation with real-real-dead personae. Read on:
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his year on a. trip to New York City to visit my son, who is a social historian at a leading municipal
university there, I had a very unsettling experience. At black moments, of which at my age I have quite a
few, it still makes me distrust profoundly those absolute boundaries in Space and Time which are our sole
protection against Chaos, and fear thaf: my mindтАФno, my entire individual existenceтАФmay at any
moment at all and without any warning whatsoever be blown by a sudden gust of Cosmic Wind to an
entirely different spot in a Universe of Infinite Possibilities. Or, rather, into another Universe altogether.
And that my mind and individuality will be changed to fit

But at other moments, which are still in the majority, I believe that my unsettling experience was only one
of those remarkably vivid waking dreams to which old people become increasingly susceptiblej generally
waking dreams about the past, and especially waking dreams about a past in which at some crucial point