When I thought about getting me some stories by Fritz Leiber it was either his science fiction or his sword & sorcery fantasy, and I settled for some of his SF with a very big collection of it. And "The Fritz Lleiber Collection" is a very big one!
What I got with this one isn't just the short stories, but also novellas and also a few full length novels also. And that's not the first I've gotten a big collection that either has two novels or even quite a bit of them along with the short stories.
Leiber's SF is pretty quirky in its own way with quite a bit of humor, and there are some stories in it that are just hilarious like "Bread Overhead", and with some suspense thrown in, though sometimes with a bit of horror veneer also. They're also very philosophical at times but there are some very action forward moments that breaks up some of the slower moments so it doesn't all too boring.
So beyond the one story that he did for the "Dangerous Visions" I like this particularly big set. If one story was dipping my toe in, then "The Fritz Leiber Collection" was a plunge. There are still some other collections (and a novel or two) I still have to dive into, like some of his horror tale and Lankhmar stories, and if I had a choice I'd go with the Lankhmar collections first before I get to ones that have his horror stories.
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