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Fantasy Masterworks Volume 18 The First Book of Lankhmar offers the initial four Swords collections, including some of Leiber's strongest stories. Swords and Deviltry provides early background for the two heroes, as well as their famous and wonderfully told meeting in ''Ill Met in Lankhmar.'' Additionally, ''The Snow Women'' remains a personal favorite, and early on contains, in my opinion, some of Leiber's best prose. Swords Against Death contains some less successful and uneven work among its ten short stories, with ''The Unholy Grail,'' ''The Circle Curse,'' and ''The Price of Pain-Ease'' only sketchily conceived and less strongly written than other work in the collection. However ''Thieves House'' offers a delightful comedy of errors, and ''Bazaar of the Bizarre,'' with its thinly disguised critique of contemporary marketing, is deservedly one of Leiber's most highly regarded short stories, and I suspect a source of inspiration for any number of latter day storytellers, from Pratchett to Rod Serling. Swords in the Mist is highlighted by several excellent short stories, including the duo's humorous falling out over love in ''Lean Times in Lankhmar,'' a jau

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Author

Leiber, Fritz

Publisher

Gollancz

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781595820792

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Graphic Novel, Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (7,662 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13