The Big Time
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ISBN10: 0312890788
ISBN13: 9780312890780
Trade Paperback
128 Pages
$12.99
CA$19.50
The Big Time is an edgy, brilliant classic of 1950s science fiction, both reflecting the paranoia of that decade and transcending it. It is also a bravura formal performance, reflecting Leiber's background on stage and in movies: the entire novel consists exclusively of monologues and set pieces set inside small rooms, yet the story it tells encompasses the universe. It is a science fiction classic like no other.
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"An extraordinary tour de force with no equal in the literature of science fiction."—A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction
"I most urgently recommend this book to you . . . What the entrances, performances and exits of this little mostly human troupe accomplish is a statement about all wars, and all people."—Algis Budrys