Quotes About Fritz Leiber

Do you think the saucer actually had an inertialess drive—like E. E. Smith's bergenholms or something?" Harry McHeath asked Doc.  "Have to, I'd think, the way it was jumping around. In a situation like this, science fiction is our only guide. On the other hand—

Oh, Ivivis, sorcerers don't have mothers!

Behind them the long galley lay like a dead beetle, the oars sprawled out all askew from the ports.

There are laws of hate in the universe, shaping even its loves, and it is time I made them work for me.

Percy's callous description of humanity as "seven billion morons" was uncomfortably close to the truth.

LATER THAN YOU THINK Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1950. Obviously the Archeologist's study belonged to an era vastly distant from today. Familiar similarities here and there only sharpened the feeling of alienage.

The Mouser glared at the old man where he sat perched on the stool like some ungainly plucked foul.

There had been raised eyebrows at these arrangements from the rather strait-laced Islers, which the four principals had handled by firmly overlooking them.

The brandy was all drunk.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

I once asked Fritz Leiber if it was not possible that Newhon, the world inhabited by his adventurers, was actually a horror venue, disguised by the fact that Fafhrd and Mouser, those most urbane of swordsmen, always escaped the consequences of their actions at the end of each story. To this he responded, "Everything I have ever written is horror.