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    The Mind Spider
    The Mind Spider
    The Mind Spider
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    The Mind Spider

    By Fritz Leiber

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    “I, the Mind Spider as you name me—the deathless one, the eternally exiled, the eternally imprisoned—or so his overconfident enemies suppose—coming in.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateOct 26, 2017
    ISBN9781515418573
    The Mind Spider
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    Fritz Leiber

    Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) was the highly acclaimed author of numerous science fiction stories and novels, many of which were made into films. He is best known as creator of the classic Lankhmar fantasy series. Leiber has won many awards, including the coveted Hugo and Nebula, and was honored as a lifetime Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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      The Mind Spider - Fritz Leiber

      The Mind Spider

      ©2017 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo / Netfalls

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1857-3

      The Mind Spider

      The Hour and minute hand of the odd little grey clock stood almost at midnight, and now the second hand, driven by the same tiny, invariable radioactive pulses, was hurrying to overtake them. Morton Horn took note. He switched off his book, puffed a brown cigarette alight, and slumped back gratefully against the saddle-shaped forcefield which combined the sensations of swansdown and laced rawhide.

      When all three hands stood together, he flicked the switch of a small black cubical box in his smock pocket A look of expectancy came into his pleasant, swarthy face, as if he were about to receive a caller, although the door had not spoken.

      With the flicking of the switch a curtain of brainwave static surrounding his mind vanished. Unnoticed while present, because it was a meaningless thought-tone—a kind of mental grey—the vanishing static left behind a great inward silence and emptiness. To Morton it was as if his mind were crouched on a mountain-peak in infinity.

      Hello, Mort. Are we first?

      A stranger in the room could not have heard those words, yet to Mort they were the cheeriest and friendliest greeting imaginable—words dear as crystal without any of the air-noise or bone-noise that blurs ordinary speech and they sounded like chocolate tastes.

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