You’re All Alone (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- First Published: 1950
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—closed universe
- Time of Work: Unspecified, but seemingly the 1950’s
- Setting: Chicago, Illinois
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1950’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Midwest, Identity, Conformity, Hunting or hunters, Animals, dangerous, Illinois
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Plot
You’re All Alone was to have been Fritz Leib- er’s third novel, following his successful Conjure Wife (1953; serial form, Unknown, 1943) and Gather, Darkness! (1950; serial form, Astounding Stories, 1943). He began it in 1943, the year the others appeared in magazines edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. He was four chapters into it when Campbell informed him that Unknown was ceasing publication because of World War II paper shortages. Lacking other fantasy markets, Leiber retired the manuscript until the late 1940’s, when he...
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