The Green Millennium (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. Humorous sci-fi mystery of intergalactic friendship, alien communication, and a thrilling journey through a vividly built worldBy Fritz Leiber
Length2h 46m
About this audiobook
The Green Millennium is a buoyant yet barbed near-future satire in which a downtrodden clerk encounters a preternaturally green cat whose presence radiates luck and narcotic serenity. A private reprieve becomes a citywide scramble as gangsters, bureaucrats, spiritualist cults, and UFO obsessives race to seize the animal. Leiber braids hardboiled pacing, screwball comedy, and cool speculative extrapolation, doubling the caper as a study of Cold War jitters, advertising-fed desire, and the hunger for transcendence. The prose is quick, witty, and oddly tender; the metropolis thrums with neon anxiety. Leiber's background as an actor and his long affection for cats and city life suffuse the book: the dialogue lands with stage-seasoned timing, and the city is a character in its own right. Across Conjure Wife, Gather, Darkness!, and the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales, he interrogated superstition, authority, and freedom; here those preoccupations sharpen into a comic anatomy of credulity and control. Readers of Pohl and Kornbluth or early Philip K. Dick will relish this humane, razor-edged romp. Recommended for anyone who enjoys noir-tinged social SF where one uncanny visitor exposes a whole society's dreams and delusions.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length2 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
5The Green Millennium
2Introduction
6Analysis
3Synopsis
7Reflection
4Historical Context
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