Fritz Leiber 2 hr 28 min read

'My name is Greta Forzane, twenty-nine and a party girl', who operates outside space and time, nursing the Soldiers wrecked in the biggest war going: the Change War, fought across all history.

Fritz Leiber's 1958 novel is a landmark, Hugo-winning military-SF and time-travel tale, staged like a play in a single room. Inventive, witty, unforgettable. Read it for a masterpiece of the field, the Spiders and Snakes warring across time, seen from a recuperation station outside reality, in Leiber's dazzling voice.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

2 hr 28 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay