Drunk or sober, happy or sunk in grief, he dragged himself to the typewriter and did the work. The thing about Leiber is that he never stopped writing. He published three novels, the weakest of which ( The Wanderer, 1964) won the Hugo for its year, and a flood of short fiction, including a novella, “Ship of Shadows”, which also won a Hugo. The 1960s were a good decade for Leiber as a writer. The cover has nothing to do with the story, but… who cares? Jeffrey Catherine Jones’ classic cover to the 1st Ace edition (1968).
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