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The Wanderer

  • 320 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1964
  • 22 editions

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1 About this book

All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer--a huge, garishly colored artificial world--emerged. Only a few scientists even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly and silently, it arrived, dwarfing and threatening the Moon and wreaking havoc on Earth's tides and weather.

Though the Wanderer is stopping in the solar system only to refuel, its mere presence is catastrophic. A tense, thrilling, and towering achievement. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year!

Good for readers who want: science fiction and aliens.

  • Science fiction
  • Climatic changes
  • Space colonies
  • Life on other planets
  • Human-alien encounters
  • Disasters
  • Catastrophes

2 About Fritz Leiber

1910–1992

Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. ( LY-bər; December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. His prominent works include the sword and sorcery characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser featured in 36 stories and one novel, and the award-winning novels The Big Time (1958) and Our Lady of Darkness (1979). Leiber was a friend of H. P. Lovecraft, and wrote several stories in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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