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This novelette by Fritz Leiber starts off well with an intense plot set up in a post-apocalyptic America. Then it falls and falls fast into the abyss of the “going nowhere” kind. Ray and Alice are what seems to be an existential crisis and set out to murder people. They’re together, and they aren’t. They have trust, and they don’t. It’s this, and it’s that. Then the plotline goes awry with a seven-foot pilot in a plane-spaceship and there’s Pop, an old wise guy, and by this time in the story I said “enough.”

I like Fritz Leiber’s works and have enjoyed everything I’ve read of his, up to “The Night of the Long Knives.” This was a promising story but became weak after the first couple of chapters.


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The Night of the Long Knives Fritz Leiber 9781604596656 Books Reviews

The etiquette of two strangers of opposite sex meeting in the Deathlands is worth the price of the book (which in the case of this edition is free but the observation is still accurate). This novel was published in the January, 1960 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.
In a post apocalyptic world, three people are put onto a mission of death,while in fact discussing the need to kill in a world already dead. Clean and simple; a very catchy first person read.
Maybe the most moving 89 pages I've read.

A post apocalyptic classic, but more about humanity than anything else.

Very entertaining, easy read. I'd rank of with Hesse's "Sidartha" for reaching into ones core.
The Night of the Long Knives is an interesting post-apocolyptic story that really grew on me as I got further in.

The three main characters are rather interesting as they reveal more about themselves, and with the way that the Deadlanders have formed their own twisted form of society with its own set of rules. Now, I think it would have worked better with more time between when the missiles started flying and when the story picks up, but to each their own.

Picked up while free. No art in the free version, as noted
Despite listing "art by Finlay" there is no Virgil Finlay art in this kindle book; however there is in other e-versions, and you can always poke around the internet and turn up an illustration or two. But the book is free, so you can't really complain too much.

The story is a novella - 93 kindle pages, with a distinct beginning, middle and end. That might sound trite, but in structure its closer to novel than merely being a glorified short story. This is a post-apocalyptic tale of survival in a world of radiation poisoning, madness, and social and religious upheaval. It's a bit fast and loose with the timeframes on occasion, as well as how much of the "old world" people remember, but a large part of that can be put down to having a narrator that is not just unreliable, but pretty much insane.

Said Narrator is "Ray", and the book starts out with him in the Deathlands, meeting "Alice", doing murder, and running into a strange old man called "Pop", who is a card-carrying member of Murderers Anonymus (MA for short). After that we get into the heart of the problem, so to speak in a radioactive wasteland how do you maintain, or rebuild, a functioning society, and what is a functioning society at all? There is still action and conflict - this is not just a talky philosophy piece - but in one sense this is the best of sci-fi, asking questions of the reader and largely leaving the answers up to you.

To an extent this is dated now, to the 50's when it was written as a classic Cold War warning, but that's alright, as it remains a work of its time without being anachronistic in any sense. It's a good read, and you can't beat the price.
After an atomic holocaust, a man meets a woman in what he calls, The Deadlands, a post atomic area that has still a few survivors – but they survive because the are killers.

But they make love, they learn to trust one another as best they can, they meet an old guy with a lot of wisdom who appears after an odd
plane from another area lands and they kill the pilot.

Then follows adventure after adventure as the old man, who is now amember of ‘Murderers Anonymous’ – tries to convince the couple that killing solves nothing.

This is a classic sci-fi/fantasy tale from one of the masters of the genre from the Golden Era of sci-fi/fantasy – a fun read!
This novelette by Fritz Leiber starts off well with an intense plot set up in a post-apocalyptic America. Then it falls and falls fast into the abyss of the “going nowhere” kind. Ray and Alice are what seems to be an existential crisis and set out to murder people. They’re together, and they aren’t. They have trust, and they don’t. It’s this, and it’s that. Then the plotline goes awry with a seven-foot pilot in a plane-spaceship and there’s Pop, an old wise guy, and by this time in the story I said “enough.”

I like Fritz Leiber’s works and have enjoyed everything I’ve read of his, up to “The Night of the Long Knives.” This was a promising story but became weak after the first couple of chapters.