The Sinful Ones Author:Fritz Leiber Carl Mackay had an okay job, a beautiful woman, and a lot of big plans. But one day he met a beautiful, frightened girl who didn't quite belong in this world. And something began. Irrevocably. Something that diverted him forever from his path, shook the sleepy dust from his eyes and brought him to a startling confrontation with the furthest ... more »limits of life, death - and an alien, terrifying danger... the Sinful Ones. .
Originally published in a shorter version as You're All Alone (1950); expanded version first published in 1980 as The Sinful Ones.« less
One of Leiber's best: a man wakes up out of Fifties conformity and discovers the Universe is a true machine. If you step out of the pattern, you literally don't exist.