Fritz Leiber (1910–1992)
Autore di Swords and Deviltry
Sull'Autore
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was born December 24, 1910, the son of a notable Shakespearean actor. He was a graduate of the University of Chicago where he had majored in psychology and physiology, and also attended Episcopal General Theological Seminary. Leiber was an Episcopal Minister from 1932 to mostra altro 1933, but was encouraged to join his father's company, and toured with him in 1934, leaving two years later when he married in 1936. Leiber became an Editor with Consolidated Book Publishers in Chicago from 1937 to 1941. He was a Speech and Drama Instructor at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1941 to 1942, a Precision Inspector at Douglas Air Craft Company, Santa Monica from 1942 to 1944, an Associate Editor for Science Digest Magazine from 1944 to 1956, and a Freelance Writer from 1956 to1992. Leiber's interest in writing came from correspondences with a a close college friend, Harry Fischer. Together they developed alter ego characters: Nordic Fafhrd a tall gangly limbed individual from 'the North' - based on Leiber, and the effervescent Grey Mouser - based on Fischer. Leiber first featured the characters in a story, "Adepts Gambit". The story was rejected, but the two characters reappeared in his first published story "Two Sought Adventure", which was published in Unknown magazine John W Campbell, of Astounding Science Fiction was Leiber's first editor. Leiber's first major work as an SF author came with his novel Gather, Darkness! in 1943, concerning the overthrow of a religious dictatorship. An anthology, Ill Met in Lankhmar, published in 1970, received the Hugo science fiction award. Leiber also received a Life Award for his contribution to his field, presented at the Second World Fantasy Convention. He regularly contributed a column to the SF trade magazine, Locus. Leiber was a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and a Lecturer for Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshops at Clarion State College and San Francisco State University. In his lifetime, Leiber won 7 Hugo Awards and a Hugo Grandmaster of Fantasy Award , 2 Nebula Awards and a Nebula Grandmaster Award, an August Derleth Award, 3 World Fantasy and one British Fantasy Awards, a Clark Ashton Award, a Balrog Award, a Locus Award, 3 Gigamesh Awards, an Anne Radcliffe Award, a University of Chicago Proffesional Achievemant Citation, and a Bram Stoker Life Achievement Award. He was also nominated for 7 other Nebula Awards, as well as 4 Lovecraft's and one Second Stage Lensman at Moscon. Leiber has appeared in television, film, on radio and in theater, and has written over 40 books. Fritz Leiber died September 5, 1992 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
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Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Serie
Opere di Fritz Leiber
Swords' Masters (Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of Lankhmar; Swords and Ice Magic) (1968) 248 copie
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 2: The Circle Curse / The Howling Tower (1991) — Original author — 16 copie
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 4: Lean Times in Lankhmar / When the Sea King's Away (1991) — Original Author — 12 copie
A Bad Day for Sales [short story] 12 copie
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 3: The Price of Pain Ease / Bazaar of the Bizarre (1991) — Autore — 10 copie
Ill Met in Lankhmar 10 copie
Nice Girl with Five Husbands 7 copie
The Night He Cried 5 copie
Le cycle des Épées (Majuscules) Epées et démons ; Epées et mort ; Epées et brumes ; Epées et sorciers ; Epées… (1970) 4 copie
Unknown Worlds, April 1943 4 copie
Wanted—An Enemy [short story] 4 copie
The Foxholes of Mars 4 copie
The Big Holiday 4 copie
The Death Of Princes 3 copie
Induction 3 copie
Game For Motel Room 3 copie
Fritz leiber les nouvelles t01 3 copie
Cyclops 2 copie
The Button Molder [short story] 2 copie
The Glove 2 copie
LANKHMAR SERIES: Swords and Deviltry; Swords Against Death; Swords in the Mist; Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of… (1990) 2 copie
Moon Duel 2 copie
Kindergarten [short story] 2 copie
Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2: With linked Table of Contents (Positronic Super Pack Series Book 20) (2016) 2 copie
Dark Wings 2 copie
The Dictator 2 copie
Time in the Round 2 copie
The Lion and the Lamb 2 copie
Quicks Around the Zodiac with Illustrations by Alicia Austin and an Afterword by Gene Wolfe. (1983) 2 copie
The Dead Man 2 copie
The Smoke Ghost 2 copie
Last Letter [short story] 2 copie
The Ghost Light [novella] 2 copie
In the Beginning 1 copia
Swords &Ice Magic 1 copia
Swords & Magic 1 copia
Mr. Adams' Garden Of Evil 1 copia
Sci-Fi Classics of Fritz Leiber – 21 Time Travel & Dystopia Stories: The Big Time, The Creature from Cleveland… (2018) 1 copia
Swords' Masters: Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of Lankhmar; Swords and Ice Magic (1968) 1 copia
The Night of the Wolf (1966) 1 copia
Die Frau, die immer verschwand 1 copia
Collectible THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER First Hardcover edition 1974 Book Club Original Fine HC 1 copia
Conjure Wife 1 copia
Neri araldi della notte 1 copia
Last [short story] 1 copia
The Lotus Eaters [short story] 1 copia
Night Passage [novelette] 1 copia
The Dreams Of Albert Moreland 1 copia
Lie Still, Show White 1 copia
Mr. Bauer And The Atoms 1 copia
Swords series 1 copia
The Mutant's Brother 1 copia
The Hound 1 copia
I traditori 1 copia
A História é Outra 1 copia
Sword & sorcery: l'epopea di Fafhrd e del Gray Mouser: Il mondo di Nehwon, Le spade di Lankhmar, Spade tra i ghiacci,… (2020) 1 copia
Miła dziewczyna 1 copia
Leiber Fritz 1 copia
Le donne delle nevi 1 copia
Icon Of The Imagination 1 copia
The Planet Explorer 1 copia
The Fritz Leiber Minipack 1 copia
Great Science Fiction no. 6 1 copia
La guerra e i labirinti 1 copia
The Gray Mouser: 1 1 copia
Opere correlate
Dangerous Visions — Collaboratore — 1,923 copie
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time (1970) — Collaboratore — 1,879 copie
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Collaboratore — 315 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Collaboratore — 268 copie
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 (1982) — Collaboratore — 242 copie
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Collaboratore — 198 copie
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Collaboratore — 187 copie
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History (1996) — Collaboratore — 151 copie
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Collaboratore — 124 copie
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - Fourth Series (1984) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again: An A to Z Encyclopedia to the Cinema of the Fantastic or Is (1981) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 80 copie
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series (1966) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 79 copie
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Collaboratore — 78 copie
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Special 25th Anniversary Anthology (1974) — Collaboratore — 72 copie
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Collaboratore — 70 copie
SF: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy: 4th Annual Volume (1958) — Collaboratore — 68 copie
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Collaboratore — 56 copie
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume Two. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The… (1970) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 35 copie
In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2004) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1967) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and Lost Children (The Children of the Night) (1999) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1970, Vol. 38, No. 4 (1970) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Alien Worlds : three novellas of science fiction by award winning authors (1976) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1957, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1957) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1963, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1963) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Collaboratore — 7 copie
The far side of time, thirteen original stories;: A science fiction anthology (1974) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Un passo avanti e due indietro — Collaboratore — 3 copie
I premi Hugo, 1976-1983: i racconti e romanzi di fantascienza che hanno vinto il premio Hugo — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 073 (November 1960) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Fantastic science fiction stories. No. 061 (November 1959) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 106 (August 1963) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Pistolero fuori tempo — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Autore, alcune edizioni — 2 copie
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 079 (May 1961) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Fantastic. No. 146 (August 1968) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Leiber, Fritz Reuter, Jr.
- Altri nomi
- Lathrop, Francis
Breçon, Maurice - Data di nascita
- 1910-12-24
- Data di morte
- 1992-09-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di morte
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- stroke
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Istruzione
- University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- Attività lavorative
- actor
speech instructor (UCLA)
editor
fantasy writer
drama teacher - Relazioni
- Leiber, Justin (son)
- Organizzazioni
- Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - Premi e riconoscimenti
- SFWA Grand Master (1981)
Gandalf Award ( [1975])
Bram Stoker Award ( [1987])
SF Hall Of Fame ( [2001])
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (1976) - Agente
- Robert P. Mills
Richard Curtis (Richard Curtis Assoc.)
Utenti
Discussioni
THE DEEP ONES: "Sea Magic" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Settembre 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Sadness of the Executioner" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Marzo 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "In the Witch's Tent" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Dicembre 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Novembre 2021)
Leiber Masters of the Weird Tale in Centipede Press (Ottobre 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Richmond, Late September, 1849" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Agosto 2021)
Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Giugno 2021)
scifi from 50s or 60s? about man who becomes invisible to his coworkers in Name that Book (Marzo 2018)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Unholy Grail" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Settembre 2017)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Aprile 2016)
SciFi Our world is a machine in Name that Book (Aprile 2016)
THE DEEP ONES: "Spider Mansion" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Settembre 2012)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Black Gondolier" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Giugno 2012)
short story; earth knocked out of orbit; survivor in Name that Book (Febbraio 2009)
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- Opere
- 349
- Opere correlate
- 372
- Utenti
- 23,616
- Popolarità
- #886
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 497
- ISBN
- 779
- Lingue
- 16
- Preferito da
- 98