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| Title | Fritz Leiber's speech for Seacon '79 |
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| Description | A speech presented by Fritz Leiber to Seacon '79. |
| Donor | Leiber, Fritz; Leiber, Justin |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | ID 1984-003, Box 57, Folder 30 |
| ArchivesSpace URI | /repositories/2/archival_objects/5302 |
| Original Collection | Fritz Leiber Papers |
| Digital Collection | Fritz Leiber Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention Flyers & Programs |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/1984_003 |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
| Use and Reproduction | In Copyright |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Page 3, front |
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| File Name | uhlib_1984_003_b057_f030_069_005.jpg |
| Transcript | novelette in Unknown. (The latter triumph Intoxicated me ■ iw n^» ma..—i ^ •• so that I gave up a thirty-dollar-a-week office job for a writing career. Three months later I went back to the office — at twenty-five.) As when Campbell showed me how to build the novels Conjure Wife and Gather DarknessI properly. The thrill of pride at seeing Lovecraft's The Shadow Our of Time among the five Viking Portable Novels of Science Let's get the focus a little closer now.•» It's late summer 19^9 and 4:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning (or Friday night, as I still tend to think of it — » darkened railway coach creaking through the American Midwest from Chicago southeast toward Cincinnati. The three or four other passengers are dim hunched lonely forms — silent, except one of them snores. But I,strategically situated by the one light in the car barely bright enough to read by, am busily writing book reviews for The Chicago Tribune, a capriciously reactionary anti-British newspaper which in the 1920's had enthusiastically supported Chicago's sole Republic mayor. Big Bill Thompson, who wore a cowboy hat I and was forever discovering British propaganda in the high school textbooks and prorate ing to punch King George in the snoot if that monarch tried to come visiting — Big Bill believed that professing such sentiments endeared him to Chicago's rather large Irish-American and German-American populations. From time to time while I ponder and scribble |