Talk:Fritz Leiber

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A lot of words and no references. Needs work. Start class.

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 00:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Pronounciation?

Can someone who knows include a note on how Leiber is pronounced?

 - It's pronounced Lye-ber with a long i - Matthew

long i? /aI/?

Could someone move it to the top with proper phonological accreditations, and out of the "Trivia" section? -- Yamara 00:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I had thought it was "lee-ber" until I picked up a copy of "Ill-Met In Lankmar" where the correct pronunciation is mentioned in the foreword. (This is somewhat embarrassing - German is my mother tongue though I've spoken primarily English for years now, and the book claims that the long-I pronunciation is the "original German" fashion of saying it.) Atypicaloracle (talk) 11:41, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Revision

The page has expanded so much that it has become unwieldy. Anyone besides me up for reorganizing it? -- Career, early influences, dry spells -- Leiber had the November 1959 issue of Fantastic devoted to only his new stories, and a Special Author issue of F&SF appeared in 1969, with the usual new work, appreciation, bibliography, etc. Should these be added? Signinstranger 22:35, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Unwieldy? Perhaps a bit, but I found it reasonably complete, well written and unbiased (visited it for the first time today). I don't think the 'cleanup' tag on the page is warranted; to me it signals "do not trust this article" or "kooks have taken over this article" — and that's definitely not the case. JöG 21:21, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I took out some POV passages. Mainly what it needs now are some subheads--but it's hard to put them in the way it's organized now. It needs a little reshuffling first.

If someone else thinks it's cleaned up enough, they can go ahead and take off the tag. Nareek 03:16, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

IJWTS I think this "catches" Fritz very well. Shulamuth 04:23, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Two Sought Adventure is in the collections section, although it is a Fafhrd & Gray mouser collection later expanded to one of the Swords books. Bazaar of the Bizarre is also a F&GM-only collection, as is Rime Isle. And Ill Met in Lankhmar [the White Wolf 1995 compendium] was peculiarly split in paperback such that (eg) Thieves' House (pb, 2001) includes 10 stories, but not split as they were in the original collections, thus becoming a "new" F&GM collection. The Wikipedia page on Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser should perhaps be updated (especially in regard of compendia of the novels), and referenced from the section on the Leiber page to keep things wieldy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.105.47.250 (talk) 13:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

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Change War ??

This passage makes no sense: "Although his Change War novel, The Big Time, is about a war between two factions..." "Change War"? What is this trying to say? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.62.47 (talk) 02:05, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

As it stands today, it means "The Big Time is set up like a play, even though its background is a war across time and space". Or are you trying to say Change War is not explained in the article? That's the/a name of that background, used for some other works too. JöG (talk) 13:36, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Split bibilography

The list of works is too long for an article about the writer. Any objections if I split it to Bibliography of Fritz Leiber, and retain only book length works here? Mike Christie (talk) 11:49, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Inaccuracies in many places

I have spotted a number of inaccuracies in the bibliographic listing of works. I've already corrected two of these, but I will make some more adjustments when I spot things. I also think that Conjure Wife needs a section of its own. It is too important a work to be swept up with everything else the way it is now. Does anyone object? As it stands the synopsis of the book is wrong (it is taken from one of the cover blurbs) and there is no noting of the changes that the novel has gone through over time. Even the film information is not fully accurate for this novel. Eluard (talk) 03:14, 11 March 2010 (UTC)