Sci-Fi Classics of Fritz Leiber – 21 Time Travel & Dystopia Stories
21 Time Travel and Dystopian Tales of Social Satire and Metaphysical AnxietyBy Fritz Reuter Leiber
Length22h 18m
About this audiobook
Sci-Fi Classics of Fritz Leiber – 21 Time Travel & Dystopia Stories gathers a wide-ranging selection of speculative fiction concerned with temporal displacement, authoritarian futures, social collapse, and the unsettling consequences of technological or historical change. Leiber's stories combine rigorous imaginative premises with irony, psychological tension, and sharply observed human behavior. His prose can move from lucid, fast-paced adventure to darkly comic satire and existential unease, placing these works within the mid-century tradition of science fiction that used estranged worlds to interrogate contemporary politics, mass culture, war, and ideas of progress. Together, the stories demonstrate how time travel and dystopia function not merely as narrative devices, but as instruments for examining responsibility, freedom, identity, and the instability of civilization. Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (1910–1992) was one of twentieth-century speculative literature's most versatile and influential writers. Trained in philosophy and deeply engaged with theater, mythology, psychology, and popular culture, he brought unusual intellectual breadth to genre fiction. His experience of a century marked by world war, ideological conflict, technological acceleration, and anxiety about nuclear destruction informed his persistent interest in societies under pressure. Leiber's formal inventiveness and satirical intelligence helped expand science fiction beyond simple futurist prediction toward morally complex literary criticism. This collection is recommended to readers seeking intellectually ambitious science fiction that remains vivid, suspenseful, and stylistically varied. It offers both an accessible introduction to Leiber's imagination and a valuable survey of themes central to classic speculative fiction. Readers interested in dystopian literature, time-travel narratives, social satire, or the history of science fiction will find these stories particularly rewarding.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Dystopia
Length22 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 2, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Tales of Time Warps: 20 Sci-Fi Classics
26VII
2The Big Time
27VIII
3Chapter 1. Enter Three Hussars
28The Night of the Long Knives
4Chapter 2. A Right-Hand Glove
29Chapter 1
5Chapter 3. Nine for a Party
30Chapter 2
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6Chapter 4. Sos from Nowhere
31Chapter 3
7Chapter 5. Sid Insists on Ghostgirls
32Chapter 4
8Chapter 6. Crete Circa 1300 B.C.
33Chapter 5
9Chapter 7. Time to Think
34Chapter 6
10Chapter 8. A Place to Stand
35Chapter 7
11Chapter 9. A Locked Room
36A Hitch in Space
12Chapter 10. Motives and Opportunities
37A Pail of Air
13Chapter 11. The Western Front, 1917
38The Moon is Green
14Chapter 12. A Big Opportunity
39Later Than You Think
15Chapter 13. The Tiger is Loose
40Nice Girl with Five Husbands
16Chapter 14. "Now Will You Talk?"
41No Great Magic
17Chapter 15. Lord Spider
42I
18Chapter 16. The Possibility-Binders
43II
19The Creature from Cleveland Depths
44III
20I
45IV
21II
46V
22III
47VI
23IV
48VII
24V
49VIII
25VI
50Appointment in Tomorrow
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