The Big Time
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“The place outside the cosmos where I and my pals do our nursing job I simply call the Place. A lot of my nursing consists of amusing and humanizing Soldiers fresh back from raids into time. In fact, my formal title is Entertainer….” — The Big Time, |
A Story That Works
- “There is the dark, eternally silent, unknown universe;
- there are the friend-enemy minds shouting and whispering their tales and always seeking the three miracles —
- that minds should really touch, or
- that the silent universe should speak, tell minds a story, or (perhaps the same thing)
- that there should be a story that works, that is all hard facts, all reality, with no illusions and no fantasy;
- and lastly, there is lonely, story-telling, wonder-questing, mortal me.”
— Fritz Leiber in “The Button Molder“