Leiber might be a bit before your time. (It’s before my time too, but my dad started collecting his SF about 1940.) “The Big Time” won the Hugo in 1958. Seems to stand up pretty well.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32256/32256-h/32256-h.htm
lol.... followed your link and for some reason it was already visited by my browser (link color). Read a few paragraphs to confirm, but I have read it. Was good.