Fritz Leiber 4 hr 5 min read

Phil Gish's world is not a pretty one, and he doesn't enjoy living in it, disillusioned, hopeless, haunted by the fear that a robot will take his job, until a small green cat changes everything.

Fritz Leiber's 1953 novel is a wild, satirical dystopian social-SF romp. Inventive, funny, wonderfully strange. Read it for prime Leiber, a timid man, a telepathic green cat, and a gaudy, gangster-ridden future turned upside down, in a comic thriller with a deceptively hopeful heart.

In its time

Published in 1953, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

4 hr 5 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).