Ebook {Epub PDF} The Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber

The swords of Lankhmar Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. The swords of Lankhmar by Leiber, Fritz, ; Jones, Jeff. Publication date Topics Fantasy fiction, American Publisher New York: Ace BooksUser Interaction Count: The Swords of Lankhmar (Mass Market Paperback) Published August 1st by Ace Books. Mass Market Paperback, pages. Author (s): Fritz Leiber. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English.  · Fritz Leiber’s better short stories do the thing a fine whisky does they leave aftertastes in memory, an emotional residue and resonance that remains long after the final page has been turned.”. “I learned how to play the game of literature—a game of power and precision and elegance—from reading Fritz Leiber, but it was a lesson.

Lankhmar is Leiber's fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization's corroding effect on the human psyche. Drawing on themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre and actually coined the term Sword and Sorcery that describes. The Swords of Lankhmar finds the city characteristically plagued by rats. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are in the employ of. Glipkerio, the overlord, to guard a grain ship on its journey. Along the way, the rats onboard stage a rebellion and threaten to take the ship until a two-headed sea monster saves the day. The late Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser launched the sword-and-sorcery genre, and were the inspiration for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons. BONUS AUDIO: In a wonderfully written essay, Neil Gaiman says, " The Swords of Lankhmar glitters and shimmers and dances", and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are "the.

The swords of Lankhmar by Leiber, Fritz, ; Jones, Jeff. Publication date Topics Fantasy fiction, American Publisher New York: Ace Books Collection. The Swords of Lankhmar is an expansion of Leiber’s novella Scylla’s Daughter (, Fantastic Stories of Imagination) which was nominated for a Hugo Award. The Swords of Lankhmar has everything fans have learned to expect from one of Fritz Leiber’s LANKHMAR series. It’s strange, creative, fast-paced, and fun. Lankhmar is Leiber’s fully realized, vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. Drawing on themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre and actually coined the term Sword and Sorcery that describes the subgenre he helped create.