The Wanderer

Fritz Leiber

May 2012 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer came. Only a few scientists had even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly, it was there, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking havoc with Earth's tides and weather. The huge, garishly coloured artificial world has only stopped in the Solar system to refuel but its mere presence is a catastrophe for the inhabitants of Earth, who all struggle in their different ways to survive the climatic chaos it unleashes. A brilliant description of the of the days of chaos as total destruction threatens the Earth.

Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1965

About the author

Fritz Leiber (1910-1992)
Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr was born on Christmas Eve, 1910, in Chicago, the son of actors Fritz and Virginia Leiber.He was an accomplished chess player and fencer, and toured a number of times with his parents' theatre company. He was heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft in the early years of his career, but later matured into a writer with very much his own voice. Indeed, he became a hugely influential figure in the genre - particularly in the area of Sword & Sorcery (a term he is widely credited with inventing).He is best known for the creation of two of the great rogues of modern fantasy, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Winner of 6 Hugos, 3 Nebulas and 2 World Fantasy Awards, Leiber was comfortable writing across the whole gamut of fantastic literature from SF to fantasy to horror. The respect with which he is held in these areas is evidenced by his World Fantasy Life Achievement, Stoker Life Achievement and SFWA Grand Master Awards. Fritz Leiber died in San Francisco in 1992.