The final book in the seminal sword-and-sorcery series from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.After their adventures in Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd the barbarian and Gray Mouser the thief remain on Rime Isle with their loves, seeking lives of respectability and peace. Fafhrd works to regain his archery skills after losing his left hand to Odin in battle. Meanwhile, the Gray Mouser embarks on a trading expedition...

The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning series of swords and sorcery, featuring two unorthodox heroes, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.Many decades before George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones, Grand Master Fritz Leiber ruled the sword-and-sorcery universe. These three short story collections chronicle the unconventional adventures of Leiber's endearing antiheroes: barbarian Fafhrd and former wizard's apprentice, the Gray Mouser.Sw...

From a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning sword and sorcery series.Long before George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones became a worldwide phenomenon, Fritz Leiber ruled the literary universe of sword and sorcery. This novel and two short story collections chronicle the adventures of Leiber's endearing and groundbreaking antiheroes: the barbarian Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, a former wizard's apprentice—featuring the...

A collection of supernatural horror stories from the SFWA Grand Master and Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser novels.Assembled here by editors John Pelan and Steve Savile, The Black Gondolier & Other Stories collects Fritz Leiber's best horrific tales, many of which have been virtually unobtainable for decades. From the riveting "Spider Mansion" and "The Phantom Slayer" from Weird Tales to later works "Lie Still...

Iconic sword and sorcery adventurers Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser share the page with drunkard-turned-unlikely-hero Spar in two award-winning novellas.Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science FictionIll Met in Lankhmar: Gentleman barbarian Fafhrd, son of a northern Snow Witch, flees his family's homeland to join a foreign lover and escape his mother's control. Cynical thief the Gray Mouser has a mysterious past, but no o...

A post-apocalyptic novel set in the nuclear wastelands of America from the Grand Master of Science Fiction and author of the Lankhmar series.Ray is armed and dangerous, suspicious of everyone he comes across in the decimated Deathlands and willing to fight to the death as he scavenges for food and weapons. Into his life comes Alice, just as wary but whose intentions are not violent. The two drifters forge an uneasy truce, but their bloodlust will be tested when an ...

Join the renowned barbarian and thief in this sword-and-sorcery collection from a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.Swords Against Death finds Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser beginning their real journey. Their hearts altered by the loss of first true love, they embark on a long and winding path of drunken debauchery and womanizing until crossing paths with two cross wizards, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of t...

From a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Everything changes with the arrival of mysterious, green cat.In a futuristic human society based on our own, the regimented, regulated, and bureaucratized lifestyle led by the misanthropic Phil Gish leaves him feeling vaguely dissatisfied and emotionally cut off from other people. When a green cat appears in his room, he is surprised to find that it makes him feel happier and more ali...

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser take to the sea in the classic sword and sorcery series that "has lost none of its luminous magic" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).Hugo and Nebula Award–Winning Grand Master of Science FictionSwords in the Mist, a story collection in the Lankhmar series, thrusts our indentured, sword-swinging servants into "The Cloud of Hate", its power, and its purpose. "Lean Times ...

A horror author is drawn into a mysterious curse in this World Fantasy Award–winning novel from the author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series.Fritz Leiber may be best known as a fantasy writer, but he published widely and successfully in the horror and science fiction fields. His fiction won the Hugo, Nebula, Derleth, Gandalf, Lovecraft, and World Fantasy Awards, and he was honored with the Life Achievement Lovecraft Award and was named a Grand Master of Scie...

Stories of sword and sorcery by a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.Before The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured deep within the caves of Inner Earth, 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'...

Tales of suspense, surprise, wit, and weirdness from a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy—as well as horror.Assembled from magazine submissions, fanzines, and even "lost" manuscripts discovered among the author's personal papers, Day Dark, Night Bright includes the following short stories: "Time Fighter," "Femmequin 973," "Night Passage," "Moon Duel," "Later Than You Think," "Mirror," "The 64‑Square MadHouse," "All th...