TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finlay,Virgil
AU  - Leiber,Fritz
TI  - The Night of the Long Knives
T2  - Produced from Amazing Science Fiction Stories January 1960
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Science fiction, American
KW  - Dystopias -- Fiction
KW  - Apocalyptic fiction
N1  - Release date is 2008-04-09; Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online
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N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25024
ER  -