@booklet {2352, title = {"America the Beautiful"}, howpublished = {The Year 2000: An Anthology}, year = {1970}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1971), 268-79; in\ The Best of Fritz Leiber\ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 311-24; in\ The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 285-97; and in his\ Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 193-203.\ 

}, month = {1970}, pages = {17-33}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia. The U.S. is a technological utopia that has solved the population and education problems. The legalization of marijuana and peyote has largely solved the drug problem, but there is constant war.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)}, editor = {Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012)} } @booklet {2149, title = {"A Specter Is Haunting Texas"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction}, volume = { 26.6 - 27.2}, year = {1968}, note = {

Repub. New York: Walker \& Co. U.K. ed. as\ A Spectre Is Haunting Texas. London: Gollancz, 1969.

}, month = {June - August 1968}, pages = {6-74, 52-128, 118-86}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Texas has taken over most of the Americas from Canada to Nicaragua. Racial, ethnic, financial, and political discrimination. \". . . a man can\&$\#$39;t feel really free unless he\&$\#$39;s got a lot of underfolk to boss around\" (15). African American republics exist in California and Florida. Circumluna is a satellite of scientists, hippies, and others.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {2013, title = {"The Good New Days"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Magazine}, volume = {24.1 }, year = {1965}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine, 1974), 295-310; and\ in\ The Best of Fritz Leiber\ (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 271-84.

}, month = {October 1965}, pages = {151-64}, abstract = {

Humorous dystopia. Robots have replaced humans for all productive work and humans are valued depending on the number of meaningless jobs they hold. There is a statue honoring a twelve-job man.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1909, title = {"X Marks the Pedwalk"}, howpublished = {Worlds of Tomorrow }, volume = {1.1}, year = {1963}, note = {

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 105-10; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 165-70; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 282-87.

}, month = {April 1963}, pages = {57-60}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Society divided into wheeled and pedestrians. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1951 Bradbury.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1826, title = {The Silver Eggheads}, year = {1961}, note = {

Shorter version originally published in\ The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ 16.1 (January 1959): 42-84.

}, month = {1961}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Automation of the publishing industry where computers write books. A female robot (colored pink) is the censor. People lose the ability to write.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1741, title = {"Tranquility, or Else!"}, howpublished = {Fantastic Science Fiction}, volume = { 8.11 }, year = {1959}, note = {

Rpt. in his Mind Spider and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1961), 1-54. Rpt. as \“The Haunted Future.\” A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 154-99.\ 

}, month = {November 1959}, pages = {89-129}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia. Conditioning for freedom leaves people too controlled and in need of outlets for aggression.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {9821, title = {"The Last Letter"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction}, volume = {16.2}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 132-44; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 219-32. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 219-32.\ 

}, month = {June 1958}, pages = {45-56}, abstract = {

Satire on a technologically oriented society that uses most of the technology for advertising. People live in hives overseen by a Queen Mother and every boy in the hive must marry one of the \“Girls Next Door.\”

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {8756, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Friends and Enemies{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Infinity Science Fiction }, volume = {2.2}, year = {1957}, note = {

Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 107-25; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), . Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 199-218.\ 

}, month = {April 1957}, pages = {50-67}, abstract = {

The story focuses on the dystopia created by fear of science, particularly atomic physics, and speculation about alternative ways of life.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1463, title = {"The Big Holiday"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {4.1 }, year = {1953}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Best of Fritz Leiber\ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 179-202; and in\ The Best of Fritz Leiber\ (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 165-72.

}, month = {January 1953}, pages = {3-9}, abstract = {

Eutopian holiday. There is one holiday each year lasting three days and stressing friendship, love, laziness, fun, and joy. No one can be concerned with money, success, hurry, worry, and glamour. Instituted because holidays had become profit centers and were no longer holidays.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1464, title = {The Green Millennium}, year = {1953}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1953; and New York: Lion Books, 1954. U.K. ed. London: Abelard-Shuman, 1959, which is rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an \“Introduction\” by Deborah L. Notkin (v-xi).\ 

}, month = {1953}, publisher = {Abelard Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian satire in which the U.S. is ruled by the Federal Bureau of Loyalty, which has replaced most of the government bureaucracy, loosely cooperating, but also competing, with Fun, Inc., which controls the drug trade, gambling, and so forth. There is also a Federal Bureau of Morality.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {9808, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Appointment for Tomorrow{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. as \“Poor Superman.\” In Tomorrow the Stars. Ed. Robert Heinlein (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952); rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1967), 198-224;\ and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974),\ 124-52; and in\ The Best of Fritz Leiber\ (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 115-41.\ 

}, month = {July 1951}, pages = {134-58}, abstract = {

The story is set in a dystopian U. S. after World War III and focuses on the struggle for power between scientists and charlatans.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {9819, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Nice Girl With 5 Husbands{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction }, volume = {2.1}, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. as \“Nice Girl With Five Husbands.\” Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 178-91; and in\ The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 95-109. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 95-109.\ 

}, month = {April 1951}, pages = {2-15}, abstract = {

Eutopia set in a high-tech future that includes space travel but with the emphasis on the way people live. There is what appears to be a group marriage, everyone has multiple professions and work assignments throughout the world, children raised collectively by the family, and no modesty.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1346, title = {"Coming Attraction"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {1.2}, year = {1950}, note = {

Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 173-77; in Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1965), 372-88; in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), 364-76; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 109-23; in\ The Best of Fritz Leiber\ (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 101-14; in his Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 33-44; and in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 221-33 with an editors\’ note on 221-22.

}, month = {November 1950}, pages = {75-86}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a post-atomic war U.S. Vicious, violent society. Women must wear masks because the face is considered too sexual.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1360, title = {"Let Freedom Ring"}, howpublished = {Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL)}, volume = { 24.4 }, year = {1950}, note = {

Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). Also rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (New York), no. 23 (February 1972): 4-48. U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), [no. 1] (nd): 90-134.\ 

}, month = {April 1950}, pages = {90-134}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia that drafts men to almost certain death.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0002-6891 }, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1247, title = {"Destiny Times Three"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {35.1 -2 }, year = {1945}, note = {

Rpt. in Five Science Fiction Novels. Comp. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1952), 110-203);\ as Galaxy Novel 28. New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1952; and in Binary Star $\#$ 1 (New York: Dell, 1978), 7-150. The most recent reprint has an \"Afterword\" by Norman Spinrad (150-55).

}, month = {March - April 1945}, pages = {6-55; 140-72, 174-77}, abstract = {

The future earth is split into three. One is a flawed utopia, which is supposed to be peaceful and joyful, but is stagnant; one is an authoritarian dystopia; and one is a destroyed landscape ruled by intelligent cats.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1196, title = {"Gather, Darkness!"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {31.3 - 5 }, year = {1943}, note = {

Repub. New York: Pellegrini \& Cudahy, 1950. Rpt. New York: Grosset \& Dunlap, 1951; New York: Berkley Medallion, [1962]; New York: Pyramid, 1969; New York: Ballantine Books, 1975; and Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980.

}, month = {May - July 1943}, pages = {9-59; 109-59; 118-48, 150-52, 154-62}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia ruled by hereditary priests who work in twos so they can spy on each other. There is a rigid class system of religious and commoners, and the majority are controlled by keeping them ignorant.\ Something of a response to 1941 Heinlein.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} }