Change War: The Complete Series by Fritz Leiber (.ePUB)
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Change War: The Complete Series (Jerry eBooks, 2026) by Fritz Leiber
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Overview: Changewar: Term coined for that special sf brand of War which is fought across Time, usually with each side knowingly using Time Travel, tampering with causality and perhaps setting up destructive Time Paradoxes in an attempt to establish the ascendancy of one or another version of history. Fritz Leiber provided the name in his Change War series – notably The Big Time (March-April 1958 Galaxy) and the stories assembled as The Change War…
— SFE
The Change War series, long central to Fritz Leiber’s exploration of time as a battlefield, occupies a unique niche in speculative fiction for its intimate focus on individuals negotiating personal loyalties within a sprawling temporal conflict. While Leiber’s broader career spans sword-and-sorcery and sharp social satire, The Big Time stands out for its character-driven tension and its stylistic pivot toward kinetic, ground-level stakes during a civilization-spanning war of change. Critics have noted its clever premise and brisk pacing, with admiration for its bold manipulation of time and identity, though some reviews have highlighted a sense of episodic fragmentation reflective of its experimental structure.
–wizardsandwarpdrivesdotnet
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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