Swords and Deviltry (Lankhmar, #1) (Swords, #1) (Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, #1)

by Fritz Leiber

[From back cover]

Here is the beginning of the legendary epic that has become a classic of fantasy adventure. At first, they seemed an unlikely pair: Fafhrd, the white-robed princeling of the barbaric cold waste; the Gray Mouser, a wizardling suspended between magic white and black.

Little did they realize, as they suspiciously eyed each other thatn night in murky Lankhmar, that they were two long-sundered, matching halves of a greater hero - that they would be comrades through a thousand quests and a hundred lifetimes of adventures, with their SWORDS AND DEVILTRY.

• ISBN10: 0441791980
• ISBN13: 9780441791989
• Publish Date: 15 November 1986 (first published 31 December 1977)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Ace Books
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

This is why I don’t make my best of the year list early. Wide eyes, O-mouth. Gleam in my heart.

It has the things Ursula Le Guin just primed me to look for: involved author; story, not plot; vivid, exact words that bring the world leaping to life. Rollicking fun to boot.

I loved it, the first and second stories especially. More Leiber to come.