The Big Time by Fritz Leiber

… I love Fritz Leiber and I love his concept of soldiers outside of time influencing the outcome of world events. So I was expecting to love The Big Time, which won a Hugo Award. But I didn’t love it. The narrator, Suzanne Toren, is incredible… my main issue is that almost all of The Big Time is dialogue and Greta’s internal soliloquy… The Big Time is a concept novella which reads more like a stage play. Even though I loved the concept, I would have loved it more if I’d seen it in action. And even though the audio production was perfection, by golly, I don’t want to listen to another concept novel narrated by a 1950s Chicago party girl! Read the rest.