The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber
"The Night of the Long Knives" by Fritz Leiber is a novel written in the late 20th century. The story unfolds in a post-apocalyptic America known as the Deathlands, an unforgiving landscape filled with radiation and danger. The main character navigates this desolate world, encountering a mysterious girl with whom he shares a fraught tension marked by their primal urges — one toward violence and the other toward intimacy. The opening of
the book introduces us to a tense encounter between the protagonist, a weary scavenger, and a girl he spots in the vast, hazardous terrain. Both are armed and aware of the danger surrounding them, their paths intertwining in a complex dance of survival, fear, and attraction. As they cautiously approach one another, the narrative delves into their emotions — the conflicting desires to kill and to connect — encapsulating life in the Deathlands where the urge to murder is portrayed as a survival instinct. This initial encounter hints at both the treachery and the potential for connection in a world ravaged by chaos, setting the tone for the unfolding tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Illustrator | Finlay, Virgil, 1914-1971 |
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| Author | Leiber, Fritz, 1910-1992 |
| Title | The Night of the Long Knives |
| Series Title | Produced from Amazing Science Fiction Stories January 1960. |
| Note | Reading ease score: 78.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Credits |
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction, American |
| Subject | Dystopias -- Fiction |
| Subject | Apocalyptic fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 25024 |
| Release Date | Apr 9, 2008 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 244 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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