Bøger af Fritz Leiber

"Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to be bringing you exactly the same picture of the past from one day to the next? Have you ever been afraid that your personality was changing because of forces beyond your knowledge or con

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser take to the sea in the third installment of this seminal sword and sorcery series that ';has lost none of its luminous magic' (San Francisco Chronicle).Swords in the Mist, book three in the Lankhmar series, thrusts our indentured, sword-swinging servants into the question of hate, its power, and its purpose. Times are lean in Lankhmar, illuminating the link between money and love. Luckily, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser don't always believe in love. When Lankhmar gets too gritty, our travelers take to their other, less harsh mistress, the sea. But the sea can play tricks on men, and so can the sea king. He can break a man, or worse yet, curse him. But when he is away, it's all play for the formidable swordsmen and the Triple Goddess... and two luscious sea queens. But luck may not always be there, as they discover on the way to see Ningauble, their wizard employer. After a long journey in defense of their control over their own fates, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser find themselves pawns in a life-and-death chess game, all of Lankhmar being the pieces. How many pawns will be left on the board before someone wins? 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'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. Drawing on themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and H. P. Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre and actually coined the term Sword and Sorcery that describes the subgenre he helped create.

Join the renowned barbarian and thief in this sword-and-sorcery adventure from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. While The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, 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. Swords Against Death, the second volume in the Lankhmar series, 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 the Seven Eyes. A most violent of clashes ensues. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser descend into Thieves House to discover the exacting skill of the united backstabbing Thieves of Lankhmar and their rival guild, the Slayer's Brotherhood, the city's unionized killers. They would wander along the Bleak Shore to a howling tower to show how fear is not the product of murder but the cause. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser must resume their plundering and drunken debauchery until once again darkness had taken the balance for its favor and then a change would come. These are just a few of the encounters our swindling swordsmen will willingly endure in ridding their hearts of their first true loves. But did they know it would make them indentured swordsman servants to their former foes, the formidable Sheelba and Ningauble?

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 the Gray Mouser together to mark the beginning of a loyal and lifelong friendship. Consumed by his wicked mother's enchantments, Fafhrd finds freedom by pursuing the love of a beautiful actress in the Nebula and Hugo Awardnominated ';The Snow Women.' Studying sorcery under a great wizard in a land where it is forbidden, Mouse crosses the thin line between white and black magic to avenge a great wrong in ';The Unholy Grail.' And in the Nebula and Hugo Awardwinning novella ';Ill Met in Lankhmar,' Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser disguise themselves as beggars to infiltrate the Thieves' Guildonly to pay a horrible price for their greed when they come face-to-face with a monstrous evil.

This Hugo Awardwinning 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 Wanderer is a mere tale of bizarre alien domination and human submission. His conception of the Wanderer bleeds into unrequited love for the mysterious ';she' who owns him.

A collection of supernatural horror stories by a multiple award-winning master of the fantastic. From the author of Swords and Deviltry and many other classic novels, a recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, this is a treasure trove of horrific tales, many of which remained out of print for decades after appearing in such magazines as Unknown, Thrilling Mystery, Startling Stories, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the acclaimed horror specialty magazine Whispers 1314. In addition to the title story, this collection also includes: ';Cry Witch!' (1951), ';I'm Looking for Jeff' (1952), ';Ms. Found in a Maelstrom' (1959), ';The Button Molder' (1979), ';Dark Wings' (1976), and ';The Enormous Bedroom' (2001), which is original to this volume.

A must-read story collection from the Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy and author of the Lankhmar series. Assembled from magazine submissions, fanzines, and even ';lost' manuscripts discovered amongst the author's personal papers, Horrible Imaginings includes two Nebula Award finalists: ';Horrible Imaginings,' and ';Answering Service,' as well as the stories ';The Automatic Pistol,' ';Crazy Annaoj,' ';The Hound,' ';Alice and the Allergy,' ';Skinny's Wonderful,' ';Scream Wolf,' ';Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum,' ';When Brahma Wakes,' ';The Glove,' ';The Girl With the Hungry Eyes,' ';While Set Fled,' ';Diary in the Snow,' and ';The Ghost Light.'

Stories of suspense, surprise, wit, and weirdness from Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasyas well as a must-read horror authorFritz Leiber. 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 the Weed in the World,' ';The Mutant's Brother,' ';The Man Who Was Married to Space and Time,' ';Thought' ';Crystal Prison,' ';Bullet Was His Name,' ';Success,' ';To Make a Roman Holiday,' ';Bread Overhead,' ';The Reward,' ';Taboo,' ';Business of Killing,' and ';Day Dark, Night Bright.'

A collection of supernatural horror stories from the SFWA Grand Master and Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser novels. Assembled here is a selection of Mr. Leibers 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 the more recent ';Lie Still, Snow White' and ';Black Has Its Charms' from rare, small press magazines, this collection provides an overview of Leiber's fifty plus years as an acknowledged master of the weird tale. This edition was edited by John Pelan and Steve Savile.

From a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy: In a post-apocalyptic future, a priest must fight the forces of evil in order to bring freedom to humanity. Three-hundred and sixty years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. Endowed with scientific knowledge lost to the rest of humanity, Techno-priests of the Great God now rule. Jarles, originally of peasant descent, rises to become a priest of the Great God. He knows that the gospel is nothing but trickery propagated by non-believers. One day, he defies his priestly training and attempts to incite the peasants to rebelbut Jarles is not the only dissenter trying to bring down the priesthoodwitchcraft is slowly gaining strength and support among the populace. Little does Jarles know his rebellion is about to throw him headlong into the middle of the greatest holy war the world has ever seen.

The Night of Long Knives is apost-apocolyptic novel taking place after a nuclear holocaust. Survivors are left to wander in a wasteland and survive by scavenging and murdering other people. A new culture of survival has arisen based on random killing. Other cultures also emerge that rekindle technology and are hostile to the nomadic murderers of the land. It is a brutal world that moves by one rule, as epitomized by the epigraph that begins chapter one:"Any man who saw you, or even heard your footsteps must be ambushed, stalked and killed, whether needed for food or not. Otherwise, so long as his strength held out, he would be on your trail."Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jrwas an American fantasy, horror and science fiction writer. He was an expert chess player and a champion fencer.

The Creature from the Cleveland Depths is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer's apprentice. "Every time Gusterson dropped a new free idea into the fad-ridden mainstream world of underground cities and cozy crowds, it crystallized into something really strange, and things got out of hand. So he shouldn't have mentioned the reminder machine...."Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr was an American fantasy, horror and science fiction writer. He was an expert chess player and a champion fencer. He received the Gandalf award at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1975 and the Grand Master Award at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1981.