![]() ![]() CONJURE WIFE is scary in a way very few fantasy books have ever struck me. That would go over with a heavy crash.) But Leiber overcame all these points beautifully, telling his story with such deftness that I quickly got completely caught up in the tale. ![]() (Imagine a story where women are only successful in their careers because men have secretly agreed to cover up for them. It also seemed a bit demeaning to present a world where men only succeed because women are secretly protecting them from other witches. ![]() I have never been that impressed by stories involving traditional witchcraft, and the premise here that all women worldwide are secretly practicing witchcraft without men finding out seemed pretty It won me over, despite the fact that I started it with a few misgivings that sort of unfairly prejudiced me against it. From the April 1943 issue of UNKNOWN WORLDS, this was the first full-length novel by Fritz Leiber. ![]()
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