“The Beat Cluster” was Fritz Leiber’s science fiction story... https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/701199471483191296 Created Fri, 18/11/2022 - 07:12 “The Beat Cluster” was Fritz Leiber’s science fiction story about beatniks in orbit, published in 1961.*It didn’t create a “spacebeatnik” subgenre, but probably it should have.