The new The Best of Fritz Leiber scheduled for release in 2010 may not be the book you think it is.  If you are dismissing it as a re-release of the book of the same title from the 1970′s, don’t.  This is a new collection.

Jonathan Strahan and Locus publisher Charles Brown are working on a collection to be released by Night Shade Press.

Meanwhile they have decided to open up discussion at the Locus Roundtable as to which stories would best represent Leiber in the new volume.

They promise to release a handsome yet affordable book with the aim to introduce his stories to a wider audience.

Be sure to pre-order!

Possible stories to make the cut: –>

1. A Deskful of Girls (1958)
2. A Pail of Air (1951)
3. Adept’s Gambit (1947)
4. America the Beautiful (1970)
5. Bazaar of the Bizarre (1963)
6. Belsen Express (1975)
7. Catch That Zeppelin! (1975)
8. Coming Attraction (1950)
9. Four Ghosts in Hamlet (1965)
10. Gonna Roll the Bones (1967)
11. Ill Met in Lankhmar (1970)
12. Midnight by the Morphy Watch (1974)
13. Poor Superman (1951)
14. Rump-Titty-Titty-Tum-Tah-Tee (1958)
15. Sea Magic (1977)
16. Smoke Ghost (1941)
17. Space Time for Springers (1958)
18. The Button Molder (1979)
19. The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars (1983)
20. The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1949)
21. The Man Who Made Friends With Electricity (1962)
22. The Man Who Never Grew Young (1949)
23. The Night he Cried (1953)
24. The Winter Flies (1967)
25. Two Sought Adventure (1939)