Lankhmar · #6

Swords and Ice Magic

Fritz Leiber

Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Short Stories
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World Fantasy Award nominee 1978.

A collection of linked stories.

  • The Sadness of the Executioner
  • Beauty and the Beasts
  • Trapped in the Shadowland
  • The Bait
  • Under the Thumbs of the Gods
  • Trapped in the Sea of Stars
  • The Frost Monstreme
  • Rime Isle

PRISONERS OF THE GODS

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have traveled the width and breadth of the land of Nehwon, in search of adventure and fortune. Now lost at sea, their ship drawn out on the Great Equatorial Current, their journey brings them to Rime Isle, a tragic island populated by vagabonds and wanderers.

The island is also home to a race of gods, schemers, and manipulators that plague the humans for their amusement. Will Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser be able to escape the island, or be trapped forever as pawns of the gods?

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1977
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Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. (1910–1992) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. The son of a pair of Shakespearian actors, Leiber was also an actor, expert chess player, and champion fencer. Born in Chicago in 1910, Leiber spent his youth touring with his parents' theater company. He graduated with honors in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1932. Leiber married Jonquil Stephens in 1936. In 1938, their son Justin was born. After Jonquil's death in 1969, Fritz Leiber moved to San Francisco, where he died on September 5, 1992. Fritz Leiber's formative sword-and-sorcery story, "Two Sought Adventure," was…