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The Big Time
The Big Time: Top Science Fiction | Fritz Leiber
2 posts | 8 read | 3 to read
ENTER THREE HUSSARS My name is Greta Forzane. Twenty-nine and a party girl would describe me. I was born in Chicago, of Scandinavian parents, but now I operate chiefly outside space and timenot in Heaven or Hell, if there are such places, but not in the cosmos or universe you know either. I am not as romantically entrancing as the immortal film star who also bears my first name, but I have a rough-and-ready charm of my own. I need it, for my job is to nurse back to health and kid back to sanity Soldiers badly roughed up in the biggest war going. This war is the Change War, a war of time travelersin fact, our private name for being in this war is being on the Big Time. Our Soldiers fight by going back to change the past, or even ahead to change the future, in ways to help our side win the final victory a billion or more years from now. A long killing business, believe me. You don't know about the Change War, but it's influencing your lives all the time and maybe you've had hints of it without realizing.
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xicanti
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I cycled through the following stages as I listened to THE BIG TIME:

1. “Wow, Greta‘s narrative voice is fantastic! I‘m in for a good time.”

2. “Wow, this thing‘s packed with characters I can‘t care about. Bored now.”

3. “Wow, whenever I rise out of my boredom, I find I actively hate this thing on account of the casually relayed gendered violence.”

1 star (which is my “why the hell did I finish this??” rating)

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xicanti
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I took a lunchtime #audiowalk and found maple nut ice cream for @ljuliel .

I‘m gonna finish this book because it‘s so short and I‘ve only got about half an hour left, but it‘s also pretty boring. Leiber delivers a stellar narrative voice in the opening so I went in excited, but I haven‘t been able to find a reason to care about these characters. Sadness.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk I think I got this in an Audible Daily Deal at some point... 5y
xicanti @TobeyTheScavengerMonk I downloaded the free version from Librivox. The narrator‘s good, but the story just ain‘t doing it for me. 5y
ljuliel Yum, does that look good or what ? Thank you for the photo. I hope, while you were moseying by, that you picked up a tub or two to bring home ? 5y
xicanti @ljuliel unfortunately, I was on foot and it was a warm day, so ice cream was impossible. Next time I take a car to a grocery store, though, it‘ll be MINE! 5y
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