Fritz Leiber 2 hr 1 min read

A hundred miles from Nowhere, literally, a lone killer in a radiation-blasted no-man's-land spots a girl out of the corner of his eye, and reaches, by reflex, to stalk and murder her.

Fritz Leiber's 1960 story is a gripping post-apocalyptic tale of survival and redemption. Sharp, humane golden-age SF. Read it for a story where two hardened, murderous scavengers of a ruined world meet in the wasteland, and the ingrained instinct to kill wars, unexpectedly, with something like hope.

In its time

Published in 1960, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

2 hr 1 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay