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Original Title:	Swords against Wizardry
ISBN:	0441791948 (ISBN13: 9780441791941)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #4
Characters:	Fafhrd, Gray Mouser
Setting:	Nehwon

Swords Against Wizardry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #4) Paperback | Pages: 188 pages

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Title	:	Swords Against Wizardry (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser #4)
Author	:	Fritz Leiber
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 188 pages
Published	:	April 1st 1986 by Ace (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Heroic Fantasy. Sword and Sorcery. Short Stories

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More of Leiber's finely-crafted tales of adventure featuring barbarian Fafhrd (whose bluff exterior hides one frequently given to flights of fancy or romance) and thief Mouser (who would describe himself, not altogether with cause, as the more practical of the pair).

In this case, we have two quite long stories and one shorter linking piece. First, in "Stardock", F & GM find themselves on the far side of the Cold Waste scaling the mountain Stardock, whose peak pierces the very firmament. (There were these parchment poems, see, that promised to the one brave enough to scale Stardock great rewards, both pecuniary and amorous ...)

Then, in the bridging piece "The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar", our heroes attempt to dispose of any pecuniary rewards they may have recovered with ... varying degrees of success.

And then finally, in "The Lords of Quarmall", longest of the three stories, they find themselves recruited separately and secretly to aid one or the other of the two sons of Quarmal, Lord of Quarmall, an unpleasant and mostly underground city, who seek champions from distant lands as they conspire against each other and their father. It's an altogether horrible place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there ...

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I'm pretty sure "Stardock" is my favorite Fafhrd & Gray Mouser story. --MK

Probably my second favorite of all the Lankhmar collections, right after Swords Against Death. Not a bad one in the bunch -- I just prefer those in Swords Against Death by a little.

It was hard to put my finger on at first, but reading these in sequence, it becomes obvious that something has changed with the writing of the fourth Fafhrd and Gray mouser anthology. Maybe the thing that's changed is after all it's less of an anthology. This time around it feels like the stories have been written in order and are meant to follow one another. The bulk of the book is taken up by two longer pieces, and the last especially seems to be preparing the writer (and his audience) for the

It took me a few stories to come around to Fafhrd and his erstwhile companion, but now I come back with relish to each successive book. This one featured a story I'd seen in Mike Mignola's graphic novel collection of tales, but the story was truly enhanced by having the stories that come both before and after, as they end up telling a more-or-less complete little arc.

The first story of this collection did not overly grab me, being set far away from the main attraction of the city of Lankhmar, to a comparatively unremarkable mountain range. After that it's back to the wretched hive of old, for a short and sneaky tale about outwitting and being outwitted - not one of the best, lacking a good climax. The third was a little confusing to follow, but memorable enough once I got the hang of it, and featured some great shenanigans with the lead characters being

More of Leiber's finely-crafted tales of adventure featuring barbarian Fafhrd (whose bluff exterior hides one frequently given to flights of fancy or romance) and thief Mouser (who would describe himself, not altogether with cause, as the more practical of the pair).In this case, we have two quite long stories and one shorter linking piece. First, in "Stardock", F & GM find themselves on the far side of the Cold Waste scaling the mountain Stardock, whose peak pierces the very firmament.

The fourth in the series of sword and sorcery adventures continues to enchant me with the mix of humor and bloody action, beautiful language a unbridled imagination. It doesn't feel dated at all, in fact I think it has a timeless quality of essential storytelling, able to speak across generations and age groups."In the Witch's Tent" is quite short, and serves as a prologue to the long novella that follows. It does a good job of reaquainting the reader with the laidback and amoral duo of lovable