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The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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The sci-fi genre is not known for its experiments in narrative structure. And in the 1950s and 1960s, when the genre struggled to advance beyond its pulp fiction roots—under the influence of Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, Robert Heinlein and others with grander ambitions for speculative fiction—few would have expected Fritz Leiber to play a …

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