“Beside me, traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.”

— Fritz Leiber

Short Fiction, Catch that Zeppelin! (1975)

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American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910–1992

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