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Fritz Leiber's final Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser book follows directly on from
Swords and Ice Magic
and is one of the most cohesive volumes in the series. For that reason, I found it to be better than some of the others and, indeed, far better than its immediate predecessor. Lieber's all-too-human heroes settled down in that volume and here we're given pause to ponder what that means exactly. Do heroes ever retire? For that matter, what of all their past sexual conquests? Presumably some of t
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Although I like Fritz Leiber's work, some of his fantasy skirts along the edge of sexual behaviors that I find rather disturbing. It's nothing graphic, only suggestive, but it suggests things that I don't particularly care for.
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