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    What's He Doing in There?
    What's He Doing in There?
    What's He Doing in There?
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    What's He Doing in There?

    By Fritz Leiber

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    What's He Doing in There?
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    Fritz Leiber

    Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) was the highly acclaimed author of numerous science fiction stories and novels, many of which were made into films. He is best known as creator of the classic Lankhmar fantasy series. Leiber has won many awards, including the coveted Hugo and Nebula, and was honored as a lifetime Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

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      What's He Doing in There? - Fritz Leiber

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      Title: What's He Doing in There?

      Author: Fritz Reuter Leiber

      Illustrator: Bowman

      Release Date: July 24, 2009 [EBook #29504]

      Language: English

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      WHAT'S HE DOING IN THERE?

      By FRITZ LEIBER

      He went where no Martian ever went before—but would he come out—or had he gone for good?

      Illustrated By BOWMAN

      The Professor was congratulating Earth's first visitor from another planet on his wisdom in getting in touch with a cultural anthropologist before contacting any other scientists (or governments, God forbid!), and in learning English from radio and TV before landing from his orbit-parked rocket, when the Martian stood up and said hesitantly, Excuse me, please, but where is it?

      That baffled the Professor and the Martian seemed to grow anxious—at least his long mouth curved upward, and he had earlier explained that it curling downward was his smile—and he repeated, Please, where is it?

      He was surprisingly humanoid in most respects, but his complexion was textured so like the rich dark armchair he'd just been occupying that the Professor's pin-striped gray

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