[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.
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.
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20 December, 2019:
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