Fritz Leiber (1910–1992)
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Reihen
Werke von Fritz Leiber
Ritter und Knappe des Schwerts - Die glorreiche Rückkehr von Fafhrd und dem Grauen Mausling (1988) 1,202 Exemplare
Swords' Masters (Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of Lankhmar; Swords and Ice Magic) (1968) 248 Exemplare
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 2: The Circle Curse / The Howling Tower (1991) — Original author — 16 Exemplare
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 4: Lean Times in Lankhmar / When the Sea King's Away (1991) — Original Author — 12 Exemplare
A Bad Day for Sales [short story] 12 Exemplare
The 11th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 36 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories (2016) 11 Exemplare
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 3: The Price of Pain Ease / Bazaar of the Bizarre (1991) — Autor — 10 Exemplare
Ill Met in Lankhmar 10 Exemplare
Try and Change the Past [short story] 9 Exemplare
Nice Girl with Five Husbands 7 Exemplare
America the Beautiful [short story] 6 Exemplare
The Night He Cried 5 Exemplare
When the Change-Winds Blow [short story] 5 Exemplare
Le cycle des Épées (Majuscules) Epées et démons ; Epées et mort ; Epées et brumes ; Epées et sorciers ; Epées… (1970) 4 Exemplare
Unknown Worlds, April 1943 4 Exemplare
The Big Holiday 4 Exemplare
The Foxholes of Mars 4 Exemplare
Wanted—An Enemy [short story] 4 Exemplare
The Man Who Never Grew Young [short story] 4 Exemplare
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes [short story] 3 Exemplare
Einstimmung [Kurzgeschichte] 3 Exemplare
The Death Of Princes 3 Exemplare
Game For Motel Room 3 Exemplare
Fritz leiber les nouvelles t01 3 Exemplare
Mysterious Doings In The Metropolitan Museum 3 Exemplare
The Glove 2 Exemplare
Dark Wings 2 Exemplare
The Button Molder [short story] 2 Exemplare
Moon Duel 2 Exemplare
The Mystery of the Japanese Clock 2 Exemplare
The Dictator 2 Exemplare
The Smoke Ghost 2 Exemplare
Quicks Around the Zodiac with Illustrations by Alicia Austin and an Afterword by Gene Wolfe. (1983) 2 Exemplare
One Station Of The Way {short story} 2 Exemplare
Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2: With linked Table of Contents (Positronic Super Pack Series Book 20) (2016) 2 Exemplare
Time in the Round 2 Exemplare
The Lion and the Lamb 2 Exemplare
Kindergarten [short story] 2 Exemplare
Last Letter [short story] 2 Exemplare
Cyclops 2 Exemplare
LANKHMAR SERIES: Swords and Deviltry; Swords Against Death; Swords in the Mist; Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of… (1990) 2 Exemplare
Horrible imaginings [short fiction] 2 Exemplare
The Dead Man 2 Exemplare
The Ghost Light [novella] 2 Exemplare
The Hatchery of Dreams [short story] 1 Exemplar
The Dreams Of Albert Moreland 1 Exemplar
Icon Of The Imagination 1 Exemplar
Collectible THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER First Hardcover edition 1974 Book Club Original Fine HC 1 Exemplar
The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet [short story] 1 Exemplar
Die Frau, die immer verschwand 1 Exemplar
Conjure Wife 1 Exemplar
Neri araldi della notte 1 Exemplar
Far Reach to Cygnus [short story] 1 Exemplar
O Tempo, o Espaço e o Cérebro Livro 1 1 Exemplar
Night Passage [novelette] 1 Exemplar
Gather, Darkness! Science Fiction Classics 1 Exemplar
Black Has Its Charms [short story] 1 Exemplar
Lie Still, Show White 1 Exemplar
The Night of the Wolf (1966) 1 Exemplar
Business of Killing [short story] 1 Exemplar
Sci-Fi Classics of Fritz Leiber – 21 Time Travel & Dystopia Stories: The Big Time, The Creature from Cleveland… (2018) 1 Exemplar
Swords' Masters: Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of Lankhmar; Swords and Ice Magic (1968) 1 Exemplar
Mr. Bauer And The Atoms 1 Exemplar
The Mutant's Brother 1 Exemplar
La Mejor Ciencia Ficcion De Los Años 60 1 Exemplar
In the Beginning 1 Exemplar
Swords series 1 Exemplar
Swords & Magic 1 Exemplar
Rare -Fritz Leiber LE CYCLE DES EPEES First thus 1970 1/6000 Fafhrd and Gray Mouser (1970) 1 Exemplar
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser [Comic Book] 1 Exemplar
Svärd mot döden 1 Exemplar
Svärd och svartkonst 1 Exemplar
Leiber Fritz 1 Exemplar
The Gray Mouser: 1 1 Exemplar
Terror from the Depths [short story] 1 Exemplar
La guerra e i labirinti 1 Exemplar
I traditori 1 Exemplar
Great Science Fiction no. 6 1 Exemplar
Le donne delle nevi 1 Exemplar
The Fritz Leiber Minipack 1 Exemplar
The Hound 1 Exemplar
Miła dziewczyna 1 Exemplar
Our Saucer Vacation [short story] 1 Exemplar
Ship of Shadows - Hugo Award Novella 1970 1 Exemplar
Swords &Ice Magic 1 Exemplar
The Planet Explorer 1 Exemplar
Friends and Enemies [short story] 1 Exemplar
Endfray of the Ofay [short story] 1 Exemplar
Last [short story] 1 Exemplar
A História é Outra 1 Exemplar
Sword & sorcery: l'epopea di Fafhrd e del Gray Mouser: Il mondo di Nehwon, Le spade di Lankhmar, Spade tra i ghiacci,… (2020) 1 Exemplar
The Lotus Eaters [short story] 1 Exemplar
Mr. Adams' Garden Of Evil 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Mitwirkender — 1,923 Exemplare
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time (1970) — Mitwirkender — 1,879 Exemplare
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Mitwirkender — 315 Exemplare
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Mitwirkender — 268 Exemplare
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 (1982) — Mitwirkender — 242 Exemplare
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Mitwirkender — 198 Exemplare
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Mitwirkender — 187 Exemplare
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History (1996) — Mitwirkender — 151 Exemplare
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Mitwirkender — 124 Exemplare
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Mitwirkender — 92 Exemplare
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - Fourth Series (1984) — Mitwirkender — 92 Exemplare
John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again: An A to Z Encyclopedia to the Cinema of the Fantastic or Is (1981) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 80 Exemplare
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series (1966) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 79 Exemplare
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Mitwirkender — 78 Exemplare
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Special 25th Anniversary Anthology (1974) — Mitwirkender — 72 Exemplare
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Mitwirkender — 70 Exemplare
SF: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy: 4th Annual Volume (1958) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Mitwirkender — 41 Exemplare
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Mitwirkender — 38 Exemplare
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume Two. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The… (1970) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 35 Exemplare
In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2004) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1967) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and Lost Children (The Children of the Night) (1999) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1970, Vol. 38, No. 4 (1970) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
Alien Worlds : three novellas of science fiction by award winning authors (1976) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1957, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1957) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1951, Vol. 2, No. 6 (1951) — Autor — 8 Exemplare
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1963, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1963) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
The far side of time, thirteen original stories;: A science fiction anthology (1974) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Worlds near and far: Nine stories of science fiction and fantasy (1974) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
Un passo avanti e due indietro — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
I Premi Hugo 1976-1983 — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 073 (November 1960) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Fantastic science fiction stories. No. 061 (November 1959) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 106 (August 1963) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Pistolero fuori tempo — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Autor, einige Ausgaben — 2 Exemplare
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 079 (May 1961) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Fantastic. No. 146 (August 1968) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Leiber, Fritz Reuter jr.
- Andere Namen
- Lathrop, Francis
- Geburtstag
- 1910-12-24
- Todestag
- 1992-09-05
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Sterbeort
- San Francisco, Kalifornien, USA
- Todesursache
- Schlaganfall
- Wohnorte
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Ausbildung
- University of Chicago (Chicago ∙ Illinois ∙ USA)
- Berufe
- Schauspieler
Sprachlehrer (UCLA)
Herausgeber
Fantasyautor
drama teacher - Beziehungen
- Leiber, Justin (son)
- Organisationen
- Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- SFWA Grand Master (1981)
Gandalf Award ( [1975])
Bram Stoker Award ( [1987])
SF Hall Of Fame ( [2001])
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (1976) - Agent
- Robert P. Mills
Richard Curtis (Richard Curtis Assoc.)
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THE DEEP ONES: "Sea Magic" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (September 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Sadness of the Executioner" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (März 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "In the Witch's Tent" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Dezember 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (November 2021)
Leiber Masters of the Weird Tale in Centipede Press (Oktober 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Richmond, Late September, 1849" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (August 2021)
Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Juni 2021)
scifi from 50s or 60s? about man who becomes invisible to his coworkers in Name that Book (März 2018)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Unholy Grail" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (September 2017)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (April 2016)
SciFi Our world is a machine in Name that Book (April 2016)
THE DEEP ONES: "Spider Mansion" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (September 2012)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Black Gondolier" by Fritz Leiber in The Weird Tradition (Juni 2012)
short story; earth knocked out of orbit; survivor in Name that Book (Februar 2009)
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