Fritz Leiber

bropous · 03-12-2007, 02:12 PM

Going through more of the old authors who are seeing a bit of a Renaissance:

Fritz Leiber and his "Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser" series.

"Swords and Deviltry" has been reissued, and I do recommend the series. Kind of a tale of two run-of-the-mill fellows in a medieval type fantasy world. No royal intrigue, no competing powers and fulfillments of ancient prophecies. Fafhrd and Grey Mouser just live their lives in the City of a Thousand Smokes, stealing or renting out their services as they just try to get by.

The fact that no magical weapon or long-lost heir to the throne was involved made the books rather refreshing when I read them back in the 70s. I'm glad to see that Fritz' works are making a comeback.

03-12-2007, 02:12 PM	#1
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Fritz Leiber Going through more of the old authors who are seeing a bit of a Renaissance: Fritz Leiber and his "Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser" series. "Swords and Deviltry" has been reissued, and I do recommend the series. Kind of a tale of two run-of-the-mill fellows in a medieval type fantasy world. No royal intrigue, no competing powers and fulfillments of ancient prophecies. Fafhrd and Grey Mouser just live their lives in the City of a Thousand Smokes, stealing or renting out their services as they just try to get by. The fact that no magical weapon or long-lost heir to the throne was involved made the books rather refreshing when I read them back in the 70s. I'm glad to see that Fritz' works are making a comeback. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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