"The Big Holiday"

Year for Search
1953
Secondary Title
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York)
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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.

Volume / Edition
4.1
Pagination
3-9
Published Date

January 1953

ISSN Number
00024-984X
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1953 Leiber, Fritz [Reuter, Jr.] (1910-92). “The Big Holiday.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 4.1 (January 1953): 3-9. 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. MoU-St

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.

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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.

Author Note

(1910-92)

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