Martians, Keep Out!: A Positronic Book - Softcover

Leiber, Fritz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1515460436 ISBN 13: 9781515460435

Verlag: Positronic Publishing, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A clever and unsettling tale of infiltration and quiet invasion from one of science fiction's most versatile masters. In Martians, Keep Out!, Fritz Leiber turns the familiar invasion narrative inside out. When mysterious visitors from Mars begin to appear-not as towering conquerors but as subtle, nearly undetectable presences-the threat lies not in spectacle but in quiet displacement. Humanity's response reveals more about fear, suspicion, and social fracture than about extraterrestrial intent. Leiber's characteristic blend of irony and psychological insight transforms what might have been a conventional alien story into a meditation on paranoia and identity. Written during the height of Cold War unease, the story reflects mid-century anxieties about infiltration and unseen influence, while maintaining the narrative elegance and intellectual playfulness that distinguish Leiber's work. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.

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Fritz Leiber was a major American writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and sword-and-sorcery fiction, admired for his range, intelligence, wit, and stylistic control. The son of Shakespearean actors, Leiber brought theatrical awareness, literary sophistication, and psychological subtlety to popular fiction. He wrote across the major speculative genres with equal confidence, producing urban horror, satirical science fiction, supernatural fiction, and heroic fantasy that helped shape the field.Leiber is especially famous for creating Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, one of the defining partnerships in sword-and-sorcery fiction, but his science fiction and horror are equally important. Works such as Gather, Darkness!, The Big Time, Conjure Wife, Our Lady of Darkness, and numerous magazine stories reveal a writer fascinated by power, performance, fear, society, and the unstable boundary between the rational and the uncanny. His fiction won multiple major genre awards and continues to stand as one of the central achievements of twentieth-century speculative literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Positronic Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1515460436
• ISBN 13: 9781515460435
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 26
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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