02371cam a22003613u 4500 25024 UtSlPG 20260610133555.0 m cr n 260607r2008||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Finlay, Virgil, 1914-1971 The Night of the Long Knives Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2008 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from Amazing Science Fiction Stories January 1960. Release date is 2008-04-09 Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "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.) Original publication data not identified Science fiction, American Dystopias -- Fiction Apocalyptic fiction Leiber, Fritz, 1910-1992 Produced from Amazing Science Fiction Stories January 1960. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25024 66025 66025