The Big Time - Fritz Leiber
TITLE: The Big Time
AUTHOR: Fritz Leiber 1910-92
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace - Catalog ID: #D-491
COVER PRICE: $.35
ISBN:
PAGES: 129
COPYRIGHT: 1961 by author
PUB DATE: 1961-00
EDITION: 1st printing Ace double with The Mind Spider by Leiber
COVER ARTIST: Emsh- not credited
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
NOTATION:
·The printing date and number are not stated, but assumed to be a first printing in 1961 based on the copyright and the “First Book Publication” statement on the front cover of The Big Time. Also listed as such in Currey, page 307
·This is a dos-a-dos with the novel The Big Time on one side and the collection The Mind Spider: And Other Stories on the other side.
·The front cover of The Big Timesays “First Book Publication” and “Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year -17th World S.F. Convention.” It's not clear if this story was revised at all from the magazine version. The copyright page states “Copyright, ©, 1961, by Ace Books / Magazine version copyright, 1958, by Galaxy Publishing Corp.”
·The cover artists are not credited. EMSH is on the cover of The Mind Spider, lower right corner. The ACE Image Library credits Emshwiller with the cover for The Big Time as well.
·To help sort contents for each side in this ISFDB record page number for The Big Time is listed using roman numeral V while the The Mind Spider stories are listed using decimal page numbers. In the publication itself The Big Time starts on page 5 and ends on page 129.
INDEX: 0325 - The Big Time - 18 - FL - IFB
QUOTE: The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces. Even though twenty-four parts in twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive. "Now about Lankhmar. She's been invaded, her walls breached everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a fierce host which out-numbers Lankhmar's inhabitants by fifty to one and equipped with all modern weapons. Yet you can save the city." "How?" demanded Fafhrd. Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know." Fritz Leiber, from "The Swords of Lankhmar"
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
The Big Time - Fritz Leiber
TITLE: The Big Time
AUTHOR: Fritz Leiber 1910-92
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace - Catalog ID: #D-491
COVER PRICE: $.35
ISBN:
PAGES: 129
COPYRIGHT: 1961 by author
PUB DATE: 1961-00
EDITION: 1st printing Ace double with The Mind Spider by Leiber
COVER ARTIST: Emsh- not credited
ISFDB: Yes
RATING:
NOTATION:
·The printing date and number are not stated, but assumed to be a first printing in 1961 based on the copyright and the “First Book Publication” statement on the front cover of The Big Time. Also listed as such in Currey, page 307
·This is a dos-a-dos with the novel The Big Time on one side and the collection The Mind Spider: And Other Stories on the other side.
·The front cover of The Big Timesays “First Book Publication” and “Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year -17th World S.F. Convention.” It's not clear if this story was revised at all from the magazine version. The copyright page states “Copyright, ©, 1961, by Ace Books / Magazine version copyright, 1958, by Galaxy Publishing Corp.”
·The cover artists are not credited. EMSH is on the cover of The Mind Spider, lower right corner. The ACE Image Library credits Emshwiller with the cover for The Big Time as well.
·To help sort contents for each side in this ISFDB record page number for The Big Time is listed using roman numeral V while the The Mind Spider stories are listed using decimal page numbers. In the publication itself The Big Time starts on page 5 and ends on page 129.
INDEX: 0325 - The Big Time - 18 - FL - IFB
QUOTE: The seven eyes of Ningauble the Wizard floated back to his hood as he reported to Fafhrd: "I have seen much, yet cannot explain all. The Gray Mouser is exactly twenty-five feet below the deepest cellar in the palace of Gilpkerio Kistomerces. Even though twenty-four parts in twenty-five of him are dead, he is alive. "Now about Lankhmar. She's been invaded, her walls breached everywhere and desperate fighting is going on in the streets, by a fierce host which out-numbers Lankhmar's inhabitants by fifty to one and equipped with all modern weapons. Yet you can save the city." "How?" demanded Fafhrd. Ningauble shrugged. "You're a hero. You should know." Fritz Leiber, from "The Swords of Lankhmar"
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.