Swords Against Wizardry: Our two lovable rogues ascend mighty mountains, are challenged by female thieves, and hire out as mercenaries for rival princesOriginally posted at Fantasy LiteratureThis is the fourth collection of stories in Fritz Leiber’s FAFHRD AND THE GRAY MOUSER series, and is bette...
Swords in the Mist (1968), the third entry in Fritz Leiber's set of sword and sorcery tales featuring the giant barbarian Fafhrd and his compact ex-slum-boy comrade in adventuring and thieving, the Gray Mouser, cobbles together four stories from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s in fix-up rather than publi...
an extra star for the overall enjoyment I got from this pair of amoral scoundrels. but ...Other reviewers pointed out that the last book in the series compares unfavorably with what went on before. I felt the decline in quality already in the previous book ( Swords and Ice MAgic ) but as a comple...
The Swords of Lankhmar, fifth volume in Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and Gray Mouser books, stands out among the others by being the only novel in the series. It has often been remarked upon that this form is not really suited to the tales Leiber tries to tell, and I am finding myself in agreement with ...
I'll say it straight off--Swords and Ice Magic is not that great.Oh sure, there are some good parts. "The Frost Monstreme" is a good story in the old Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser model, where they're approached in a tavern and given a task for hope of gold and glory. While on that task, they run in...
Originally posted at FanLit. http://www.fantasyliterature.com/revi...The Black Gondolier is a collection of horror stories by Fritz Leiber. I love Leiber’s LANKHMAR stories — they’re some of my very favorites in fantasy literature — and I’ve enjoyed several of Leiber’s short stories and one of hi...
Έχω όλα τα βιβλία του Λάιμπερ που έχουν μεταφραστεί στα ελληνικά (δεν είναι και πολλά, δυστυχώς, μόλις έξι συν σκόρπιες ιστορίες εδώ και κει), αλλά αυτό είναι μόλις το πρώτο που διαβάζω. Συνδυάζει στοιχεία urban fantasy και τρόμου και αυτός ο συνδυασμός μου άρεσε πολύ. Σίγουρα το βιβλίο δεν είναι...
Fritz Leiber is a legendary name in science fiction and fantasy, up there among the stars with the likes of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke et al. I do not know whether the present book includes his best (since the author has endorsed it himself, it should), but it does have some fantastic storie...
Witty, gripping and urbane, Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar books are among the best loved of all modern fantasies
Perhaps best know for his sword & sorcery stories featuring Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, Fritz Leiber wrote successfully across a number of genres, including horror, fantasy, and science fiction. His epic sci-fi disaster novel, The Wanderer, won Leiber the Hugo in 1965 (he also won in 1958 for The Big...
Witty, gripping and urbane, Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar books are among the best loved of all modern fantasies
Contents:· You’re All Alone · n. Fantastic Adventures Jul ’50 · Four Ghosts in Hamlet · nv F&SF Jan ’65 · The Creature from Cleveland Depths · na Galaxy Dec ’62
An interesting but uninvolving fantasy novel founded on the following premise: since we can't directly perceive the inner lives of others, we don't really know for sure that they have any, and it may be that other human beings are literally automatic contrivances which only give the appearance of...
I was a huge fan of Lord of the Rings when I was growing up. I really admired Tolkien's world-building, the staggering amount of backstory that bolstered every little bit of his unfolding mythos. It's a world based on history, language and the austerity of myth. It's also very British.If Tolki...
There can be no doubt that Fritz Leiber is one of the foremost talents writing Science Fiction and Fantasy today. The unique ideas and techniques he has created for his novels and stories have earned him an impressive reputation - both in and out of the Science Fiction world. The stories include...
El ciclo de aventuras de Fafhrd y el Ratonero Gris se ha convertido, desde su aparición, en la serie más popular de la fantasía heroica (término cuya acuñación se debe al propio Leiber). En múltiples ocasiones ha sido aclamada como la obra cumbre de esta modalidad literaria, de entre cuyos habitu...
Fritz Leiber is one of the great imaginative talents writing fiction today. Ships to the Stars is a collection of six of the stories that have earned him an impressive and well-deserved reputation. It is a book in which you will discover: Elven, the last of the Wild Ones, who carried his entire ...
Considered a modern horror story for it's time, Conjure Wife reinvents the 'witch' as well educated women far removed from the green-skinned, hag of our collective imagination and allows her story to unfold on a modern university campus. The action begins fairly early in the book when Norman Sayl...
Fabulous Voyager... Fritz Leiber, America's finest fantasist, is the winner of six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In this award-winning new collection you can be transported to a shadowy alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War; watch a man play dice with the devil; sail in...
To be stranded in a cluster of desert cabins with a dozen lonely people in the same predicament only makes it worse. So Tom Dorset was understandably irked with himself and the Tosker-Brown Vacation Fellowships as he climbed with the sun into the valley of red stones. He accepted the chafing of h...
It doesn’t do to get too nosy. You may see things going on in the big engine that’ll make you wish you’d never come alive . . . THROUGH SLITTED, sleep-heavy eyes Carr saw the clock holding up both hands in horror. The room was drenched in sunshine. ...
The Last Letter By Fritz Leiber On Tenthmonth 1, 2457 A.D., at exactly 9 a.m. Planetary Federation Time— but with a permissible error of a millionth of a second either way— in the fifth sublevel of New- New York Robot Postal Station 68, Black Sorter gulped down ten thousand pieces of first-...
Then, clumsily bowed With bombs and guns and shovels and battle gear, Men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire. Lines of gray, muttering faces, masked with fear, They leave their trenches, going over the top, While time ticks blank and busy on their wrists —Sassoon THE WESTERN FRONT, 1917 ...
For instance, it’s bad luck to have peacock feathers on stage or say the last line of a play at rehearsals or whistle in the dressing room (the one nearest the door gets fired) or sing God Save the Sovereign on a railway train. (A Canadian company got wrecked that way.) Shakespearean actors are n...
BAUER AND THE ATOMS DR. JACOBSON BEAMED at him through the thick glasses. “I’m happy to tell you there is no sign whatever of cancer.” Mr. Bauer nodded thoughtfully. “Then I won’t need any of those radium treatments?” “Absolutely not.” Dr. Jacobson removed his glasses, wiped them with a bit of ri...
There's altogether too much broadcasting going on these days, by wave, newsprint and heaven knows what subtler avenues of approach to the human mind. I could sum it all up in one word horror. But that doesn't mean much by itself. Besides, it would let you explain it away as a neurotic delusion, a...