The Big Time
by Fritz Leiber
Publisher: Ace Books 1958
Number of pages: 196
Description:
Doctors, entertainers, and wounded soldiers find themselves treacherously trapped with an activated atomic bomb inside the Place, a room existing outside of space-time. Leiber creates a tense, claustrophobic SF mystery, and a brilliant, unique locked-room whodunit.
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