Remember THE BIG TIME allusion in GR?

[Mike Weaver]

Fritz Leiber was an actor, which has some bearing on his fiction.
 From Wiki

As the child of two Shakespearean 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare> actors---Fritz, Sr. 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber,_Sr.> and Virginia (née 
Bronson)---Leiber was fascinated with the stage, describing itinerant 
Shakespearean companies in stories like "No Great Magic" and "Four 
Ghosts in Hamlet," and creating an actor/producer protagonist for his 
novel /A Specter is Haunting Texas 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Specter_is_Haunting_Texas>/.

Although his /Change War/ novel, /The Big Time 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Time>/, is about a war between two 
factions, the "Snakes" and the "Spiders", changing and rechanging 
history throughout the universe, all the action takes place in a small 
bubble of isolated space-time <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time> 
about the size of a theatrical stage, with only a handful of characters. 
Judith Merril <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Merril> (in the July 
1969 issue of /The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction/) remarks on 
Leiber's acting skills when the writer won a science fiction convention 
costume ball. Leiber's costume consisted of a cardboard military collar 
over turned-up jacket lapels, cardboard insignia, an armband, and a 
spider pencilled large in black on his forehead, thus turning him into 
an officer of the Spiders, one of the combatants in his Change War 
stories. "The only other component," Merril writes, "was the Leiber 
instinct for theatre."


On 01/01/2014 14:32, Markekohut wrote:
> Has a Macbeth epigraph:

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