
Appointment in Tomorrow
A Positronic Book
Fritz Leiber(Author)
Positronic Publishing
Published on 8. February 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
38 pages
978-1-5154-0426-2 (ISBN)
Description
Appointment in Tomorrow is a sharp classic science fiction story of power, propaganda, secrecy, and social control by Fritz Leiber, one of the great stylists of twentieth-century speculative fiction. In a future shaped by institutional authority and carefully managed belief, the machinery of rule depends not only on force, but on illusion: the right symbols, the right rituals, the right public story, and the suppression of anything that might break the spell.
Leiber brings his characteristic intelligence and unease to a world where technology and authority have become intertwined with myth. The result is not simply an adventure about the future, but a political and psychological science fiction tale about the way societies manufacture obedience and how dangerous it can be to see through the structure too clearly. Compact, tense, and unsettling, it shows Leiber's gift for turning speculative premises into stories of human fear, ambition, and manipulation.
Readers of classic science fiction, dystopian fiction, social satire, political SF, and vintage magazine stories will find Appointment in Tomorrow a strong example of Leiber's range beyond fantasy and horror. This Positronic edition places the story alongside the classic speculative works that used imagined futures to expose the pressures, deceptions, and dangers of the present.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
72 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5154-0426-2 (9781515404262)
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Fritz Leiber | Fox Holden | Randall Garrett
Appointment in Tomorrow
E-Book
09/2017
Serapis Classics
€0.99
Available for download

Fritz Leiber
Appointment in Tomorrow
E-Book
02/2016
1st Edition
Positronic Publishing
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Person
Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. (1910 - 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theater and films, playwright and chess expert. Along with writers such as Robert E. Howard and Michael Moorcock, Leiber can be regarded as one of the fathers of sword and sorcery fantasy, having in fact created the term. Moreover, he excelled in all fields of speculative fiction, writing award-winning work in fantasy, horror and science fiction.