An edition of Swords and Ice Magic (1977)

Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd/Grey Mouser, 6)

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An edition of Swords and Ice Magic (1977)

Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd/Grey Mouser, 6)

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"Wonderful, magical Fritz Leiber, before whom Bradbury and Sturgeon and Norton and Goldman and Barth and Vonnegut bow, not to mention Robinson, Busby, Anderson and even yours truly, the maddest egomaniac of them all. Fritz Leiber, very likely the best of all of us, the man who has won more awards than anyone else in the genre, the man whose words have lifted this too often wretched category to Olympian heights more than anyone cares to mention." -Harlan Ellison Before Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well. 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. In Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser discover how the sadness of The Executioner creates a macabre dance from the point of view of the choreographer. Beauties and beasts explain the dual nature of all life’s creatures. And trapped in The Shadowland, our dogmatic duo find the duality of swords and needles, maps and territories, girls and demons…and gods, they learn of the mischievous vanity of the gods. Lost at sea, Gray Mouser becomes a natural philosopher, drifting, captive of the Great Equatorial Current. He wonders about fire and ice, about women and men until they arrive at Rime Isle, a tragic comedy of a place, wandering gods and restless mortals, a comedy with puppets and puppet-masters.

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Ace Books
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Cover of: Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Book 6)
Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Book 6)
December 1990, Ace Books
in English
Cover of: Swords and Ice Magic
Swords and Ice Magic
January 1984, Ace Books
in English
Cover of: Swords and Ice Magic
Swords and Ice Magic
December 1, 1982, Ace Books, Ace
in English
Cover of: Schwerter und Eiszauber
Schwerter und Eiszauber: Fantasy-Roman in Erzählungen
1981, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag
in German
Cover of: SWORDS AND ICE MAGIC (Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser Book six)
SWORDS AND ICE MAGIC (Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser Book six)
1979, Grafton Books
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Cover of: Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd/Grey Mouser, 6)
Swords and Ice Magic (Fafhrd/Grey Mouser, 6)
1977, Ace Books
Cover of: Swords and Ice Magic
Swords and Ice Magic
1977, Gregg Press, Prior [etc.]
in English

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Open Library
OL7526844M
Internet Archive
swordsicemagicfa0000unse
ISBN 10
0441791662
ISBN 13
9780441791668
OCLC/WorldCat
3262605
Library Thing
65705
Goodreads
297399

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