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Fritz Leiber






Fritz Leiber

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born
December 24, 1910

died
September 05, 1992

gender
male

place of birth
The United States

genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


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Fritz Leiber was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft's orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser; he returned to this series at various points in his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces--The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A Spectre is H...more




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Swords and Deviltry Swords and Deviltry (Lankhmar Series, Vol. 1)
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 3.87 — 396 ratings — published 1970
19 editions
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Swords Against Death (Lankhmar... Swords Against Death (Lankhmar, #2)
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 3.91 — 296 ratings — published 1970
19 editions
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Ill Met in Lankhmar Ill Met in Lankhmar
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 4.06 — 282 ratings — published 1995
4 editions
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Swords in the Mist: Fafhrd and... Swords in the Mist: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 3.84 — 210 ratings — published 1968
13 editions
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Swords Against Wizardry Swords Against Wizardry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Book 4)
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 3.86 — 205 ratings — published 1968
14 editions
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Lean Times in Lankhmar Lean Times in Lankhmar (Lankhmar Series, Vol. 2)
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 4.16 — 160 ratings — published 1996
3 editions
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Swords and Ice Magic Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Book 6)
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 3.84 — 169 ratings — published 1977
12 editions
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The Swords of Lankhmar The Swords of Lankhmar
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 3.90 — 115 ratings — published 1968
11 editions
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Return to Lankhmar Return to Lankhmar
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 4.10 — 105 ratings — published 1998
3 editions
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Farewell to Lankhmar: The Adve... Farewell to Lankhmar: The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (Lankhmar Series)
by Fritz Leiber
avg rating 4.02 — 100 ratings — published 1988
3 editions
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"Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups falling apart. Things changing before you get to know them. Death on the installment plan – or decay by jumps. Instantaneous birth. Something out of nothing. Reality replacing science fiction so fast that you can't tell which is which. Constant sense of deja-vu - 'I was here before, but when, how?' Even the possibility that there's no real continuity between events, just inexplicable gaps. And of course every gap – every crack – means a new perching place for horror."
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"The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever."
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"Maud chuckled proudly and Erich shouted, "Welcome back from the Void, Kamerad," and then, because he's German and thinks all parties have to be noisy and satirically pompous, he jumped on a couch and announced, "Heren und Damen, permit me to introduce the noblest Roman of them all, Marcus Vipsalus Niger"."
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