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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 16, front |
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| File Name | uhlib_1984_003_b057_f030_069_031.jpg |
| Transcript | 16 While the tarbooshed Arab got me thinking about curio shops as we'd really like to have them, curio shops with all our secret desires for sale — and so touched off another Lankhmar tale, "The Bazaar of the Bizarre." There's this to be said for writing stories around strange pictures: It forces the author to begin with or at least lead up to action and a situation. He's m compelled to use his imagination at its fullest bef t from the very start. Whereas left to his own devices, he might decide to grow his story from some solemn and serious theme or even — God help us! — a moral. __, ,^- m mmmmtmmwmm Oh, there is room for stories with serious themes, all right,stories about the bare bones of life — if the author remembers to disguise them sufficiently, dress them up In attractive costumes. But the seeming "whim of the moment" stories are good to write too. Not all my Fantastic covers were such puzzle assignments. Four, by Ed Emsh, were the finest Fafhrd- Mouser illustrations any artist has as yet achieved, to my mind. It is eminently fitting that Cele Goldsmith's modest anonynlmlty and concern won her the Invisible Little Man award given for signal contributions to science fiction by the Little Men's Marching and Chowder Society of Berkeley, California. |