An edition of Swords in the Mist (1968)

Swords in the Mist

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An edition of Swords in the Mist (1968)

Swords in the Mist

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  • 7 Have read

"Fritz Leiber has a wicked imagination. Wicked enough to make us laugh at an impossible future containing nightmarish aspects of our own times." Edmond Cooper, Sunday TimesDrawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term "Sword and Sorcery" that describes the sub-genre he helped create. Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon's grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber's fully realized vivid incarnation of urban decay and civilization's corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery.Swords in the Mist, book three in the Lankhmar series, thrusts our indentured sword-swinging servants into the question of hate, its power and its purpose. You see, it happens to be lean times in Lankhmar, illuminating that link between money and love. Luckily, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser don't always believe in love. When Lankhmar gets too gritty, our travelers take to their other, less harsh mistress, the Sea. But the Sea can play tricks on men, and so can the Sea King. He can break a man or worse yet, curse him. But when he's away it's all play for the formidable swordsmen and the Triple Goddess…and two luscious sea queens. But luck may not always be there as they discover on the way to Ningauble, their wizard employer. After a long journey in defense of their control over their own fates, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouse find themselves pawns in a life and death chess game, all of Lankhmar being the pieces. How many pawns will be left on the board before someone wins?

Publish Date
Publisher
Gregg Press
Language
English
Pages
190

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Lankhmar Book 3
Lankhmar Book 3: Swords in the Mist
October 17, 2007, Dark Horse
Paperback in English
Cover of: Swords in the Mist
Swords in the Mist
1977, Gregg Press
in English
Cover of: Swords in the mist
Swords in the mist
1968, Ace Books
in English
Cover of: Swords in the mist
Swords in the mist
1968, Ace Fantasy
in English
Cover of: Swords in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser)
Swords in the Mist (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser)
1968-01-01, Ace Books, Ace
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Boston
Series
The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser saga of Fritz Leiber ; 3

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/4
Library of Congress
PZ3.L5293 Svp 1977, PS3523.E4583 Svp 1977

The Physical Object

Pagination
190 p. :
Number of pages
190

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4547363M
Internet Archive
swordsinmis00leib
ISBN 10
0839824009
LCCN
77015482
OCLC/WorldCat
3362337
Library Thing
65706
Goodreads
7042378

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