The Wolf Pack - Fritz Leiber

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Résumé :
Normsi was chosen to die. Chosen by his own government in the interest of peace. The highest honor a citizen could render his world. Mankind had avoided war for thirty-five years, but it dared not frustrate the mounting death wish of the species. Without these cullings man might revert back to the creature that piled mountains of human sculls before its conquered cities. Normsi knew all of this, but he was young and healthy and he didn't want to die. Really once the order came, he had nothing to lose so he gather up a few belongings and left his comfortable life in New City behind to seek his fate in the decaying remnants of the old city. And to his astonishment that was when his life truly began.

Biographie:
Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror whose work significantly shaped twentieth-century speculative literature. A multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, he is widely known for the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fantasy stories as well as for his psychologically nuanced science fiction. Leiber's fiction frequently blends intellectual inquiry with atmospheric depth, securing his reputation as one of the most versatile voices in the genre's history....

Sommaire:
A tightly constructed tale of speculation and survival from Fritz Leiber, exploring group instinct, identity, and the pressures of transformation. In The Wolf Pack, Leiber turns a deceptively simple premise into a study of collective behavior and the fragile boundary between civilization and instinct. As individuals confront forces that threaten to dissolve personal autonomy into something more primal, the narrative moves with quiet inevitability toward a confrontation between reason and appetite. The story combines psychological tension with speculative imagination, revealing how thin the line may be between the ordered and the feral. Written during the great period of mid-twentieth-century science fiction, the tale reflects Leiber's distinctive blend of intellectual rigor and atmospheric unease. Compact yet resonant, The Wolf Pack stands as an example of speculative fiction concerned not only with external threat but with the internal architecture of identity itself. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery....