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Fritz Leiber, Jr. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. E married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner. He cause of his death was given as "organic brain disease." Leiber’s own literary criticism, including several ground-breaking essays on Lovecraft, was collected in the volume Fafhrd and Me (1990).

(1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. He married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner.

He married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Leiber was born in 1938. Leiber’s death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science fiction convention in London, Ontario, with Skinner. (1910-1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer.

The Swords of Lankhmar finds the city characteristically plagued by rats Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are in the employ of Glipkerio, the overlord, to guard a grain ship on its journey long the way, the rats onboard stage a rebellion and threaten to take the ship until a two-headed sea monster saves the day.

If only there were two-headed sea monsters everywhere, Lankhmar would be safe, too las, upon returning to the city, the two discover that Lankhmar is controlled by rats It is a city known for its thieves and swine, but even the city's muddiest bottom feeders have never seen pillaging and plundering like this.

Nd only the sorcerers Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes can scare this scourge Mouser must shrink into the rat's world and Fafhrd must unleash the feared feline War Cats hen the fun really begins.

Before The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, adventured deep within the caves of Inner Earth, albeit a different one hey 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 s may be expected from , these are archival editions, lavishly Book five, The Swords of Lankhmar, has a new introduction by Michael Swanwick and stunning color and duotone artwork by Tyler Jacobson he fifth book in the series, The Swords of Lankhmar , includes two essays on “Sex and the Fantasist,” “The Mouser & Hisvet,” and The Tale of the Grain Ships.” This book features an introduction by Michael Swanwick and artwork by Tyler Jacobsen It is signed by both of them and also has a family-approved facsimile signature by Fritz Leiber t features five duotone interior illustrations, a full-color frontispiece, a full color wraparound dustjacket, and custom edition information.

Edition Details

• Oversize signed edition is limited to 50 copies, each signed by Michael Swanwick and Tyler Jacobson.
• Bound in full black cloth, inset image on front board.
• Color illustrations.
• Introduction by Michael Swanwick.
• Gorgeous dustjacket wrapped in Mylar protector.
• Top-edge stain.
• Two-color slipcase stamped on spine.
• Head and tail bands, ribbon marker.

External Links

• The Swords of Lankhmar. Centipede Press page for The Swords of Lankhmar
• Fritz Leiber (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Fritz Leiber