- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (April 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312890796
- ISBN-13: 978-0312890797
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.3 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 277 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) is best known as a fantasy writer, but his achievements and influence are also considerable in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his major SF works is the Change War series, about rival time-traveling armies locked in a bitter, age-old war for control of existence; the battles frequently alter the course of human history. The most important work of Leiber's Change War series is the Hugo Award-winning novel The Big Time, in which doctors, entertainers, and wounded soldiers find themselves treacherously trapped with an activated atomic bomb inside the Place, a room existing outside of space-time. It's not one of Leiber's strongest novels: the cutesy-girlish narrative voice is unconvincing, while the demands of describing time travel and time paradoxes inevitably strain the prose. But The Big Time is a tense, claustrophobic SF mystery, and possibly the ultimate locked-room whodunit.
In addition to the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, Fritz Leiber received the Grand Master of Fantasy (Gandalf) Award, the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award, and the Grand Master Nebula Award. --Cynthia Ward
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Strange, yet appealing,
By Thradar (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Big Time (Hardcover)
As I march my way through all the Hugo & Nebula winners I came upon this book. The only other Lieber works I've read have been the very likable Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series...a fantasy staple. The Big Time is definately an original piece of time travel fiction, yet there is actually no time travel involved in the book. The prose is light on narrative and very heavy on dialogue. I had little to work with in visualizing the surroundings (basically a large room) in which the characters interacted the entire time. Despite this, I did enjoy it for the most part; although once again I am left a little baffled by the ending (a la Babel-17 by Delany). As someone else pointed out (who I agree with) this book reads like a stage play, and could easily be turned into a strange, yet tense, psuedo-time travel suspense. It's a quick read. If you want to hit all the "classics" and can find a copy, go for it. If you're a casual sci-fi reader, I recommend you skip it.
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Snakes and Spiders,
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This review is from: The Big Time (Paperback)
Well, you've simply to read the book to believe it. Two clans play whit Earth history...the snakes and the spiders. The scene of the novel is set in a resting station of one of the two clans. The result is very uncanny...and unsettling. A masterpiece of Fritz Leiber, albeit it's not kaleioscpic as The Silver Eggheads
5.0 out of 5 stars
full of surprises,
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This review is from: The Big Time (Hardcover)
I read recently in an interview with Robert Zemeckis that the modern moviegoer does not like surprises. That is why the preivews today cover all of the major plot points, show all of the best special effects, and tell all of the best jokes. This book is full of unexpected plot twists, so if you are one of those who do not like surprises, skip it. But if you want to read one of the best sf novels ever written, buy it.
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