Not the greatest interview, due not to Fritz Leiber but to the unprepared interviewer who starts off by mispronoucing Leiber's name, but but remains an interesting look at one of the greatest writers of fantasy and science fiction. (Many would say one of the greatest writers, period.) This interview took place about six months before Leiber's death at age 81.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUHrdLUqfcg&list=PLLbZGlOA34w8G6ySO9mxvX_rc21n5Wfhj
Wow, one of the last interviews with him, as well. I chose not to bother him when out in San Francisco in '89, the only time I might've met him (the folks at Dark Carnival bookstore suggested he might not mind, but I didn't want to impose). Thanks for the pointer.
ReplyDeleteGetting his name correctly, managing to cite the books' titles correctly (SWORDS AND DEVILITRY being the first in the Ace sequence in internal chronology devoted to Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser), and generally paying attention...and editing the introduction...might well help.
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