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...

This Hugo Award–winning disaster epic from the Science Fiction Grand Master "ranks among [his] most ambitious works" ( SFSite ).The Wanderer inspires feelings of pure terror in the hearts of the five billion human beings inhabiting Planet Earth. The presence of an alien planet causes increasingly severe tragedies and chaos. However, one man stands apart from the mass of frightened humanity. For him, the legendary ...

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...

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...

A professor discourages his wife's witchcraft to disastrous ends in this Hugo Award–winning novel—that inspired three films—by an SFWA Grand Master.Ethnology professor Norman Saylor is shocked to discover that his wife, Tansy, has been putting his research on "Conjure Magic" into practice. She only wants to protect him from the other spell-casting faculty wives who would stop at nothing to advance their husbands' careers. But Norman, as a man of science, demands sh...

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...

Fritz Leiber was a giant in the genre field. He won five Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, three world Fantasy Awards, and one Stoker Award, and was a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master. His influence on science fiction, fantasy, and horror cannot be overstated. Included in this massive five hundred page plus anthology are 26 of Leiber’s best stories. Stories included herein are: ‘A Pail of Air’; ‘Appointment in Tomorrow’; ‘Coming Attraction’; ‘The Moon Is Green’; ‘Kreativity ...

The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.First in the influential fan-favorite series, Swords and Deviltry collects four fantastical adventure stories from Fritz Leiber, the author who coined the phrase "sword and sorcery" and helped birth an entire genre.In "Induction," in the realm of Nehwon, fate brings young prince Fafhrd and apprentice magician th...

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 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 ...

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'...