by Fritz Leiber

isbn: 0884119335
subject: SF, Short Stories, Fiction and Literature
finished: 2/18/2002

I picked up this book because of the title story, which is great -- it's about a nightmare future Earth that has been ripped away from the sun by a passing dark star. In the cold of interstellar space, the atmosphere has condensed out into layers of frozen gas. Unfortunately, most of the other stories are surprisingly weak and dated. The only one that really stood above the crowd was Coming Attraction, a psychological drama played out in a post-nuclear America. Since these gems can be found elsewhere, most readers would probably do better to grab some sort of "best of Fritz Leiber" collection instead of this book.