“It’s this mucking inefficiency and death of the cosmos — and don’t tell me that isn’t in the cards! — masquerading as benign omniscient authority.”

—  Fritz Leiber , book The Big Time

The Big Time (1958)

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

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