Leiber & Hilton

Yesterday I read James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Friz Leiber's The Big Time. Mr. Chips was a fast, pleasurable, and incredible read. No bumps, lots of sentimentality, and yet it was not tear-jerking or otherwise pathetic. Excellent model for great writing. Yes.

Leiber's The Big Time was first published in magazine/ story form in 1958, and then it was published as a novel in 1961. I read the 1961 version. It's about battles over time, through time, and outside of time by various forces. In some ways it reminded me of Dr. Who. Overall, a great story, a pretty quick read, and it was quite a pleasurable read as well. The plot was interesting, the characters were somewhat interesting, but the ideas were grand.

Good stuff!