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How can Thorn fight a dream foe -- risking life and sanity, that is
exactly what he sets out to do . . . and his shrewd tactics and
reckless daring create a pulse-hammering story against an all to
real opponent!
Carl Mackay had an okay job, a beautiful woman, and a lot of big
plains. But one day he met a beautiful, frightened girl who didn't
quite belong in this world . . .
"Gather, Darkness " (originally serialized in "Astounding Science
Fiction" in 1943) remains of of Fritz Leiber's classic novels, a
tale of the world 360 years after a nuclear holocaust, when priests
rule using trickery and techology -- and of Armon Jarles,
Carl Mackay had an okay job, a beautiful woman, and a lot of big
plains. But one day he met a beautiful, frightened girl who didn't
quite belong in this world . . .
"Gather, Darkness " (originally serialized in "Astounding Science
Fiction" in 1943) remains of of Fritz Leiber's classic novels, a
tale of the world 360 years after a nuclear holocaust, when priests
rule using trickery and techology -- and of Armon Jarles,
Collected in this volume are three of Fritz Leiber's works: the
short novel "The Creature from Cleveland Depths" (originally
published in "Galaxy" magazine in 1962); the humorous "Bread
Overhead" (originally published in "Galaxy" magazine in 1958); and
the short novel "No Great Magic" (originally published in "Galaxy"
magazine in 1963). "No Great Magic" is part of Leiber's Change War
series.
While Howard Phillips Lovecraft was closing the final chapter of
his writing career, Fritz Reuter Leiber was only beginning to open
his own. The year was 1936 and Jonquil Leiber, Fritz's first wife,
sent a letter on her own initiative to Lovecraft, knowing that her
husband had been an avid admirer of his work, ever since his first
reading of "The Colour out of Space" and hoping that Lovecraft's
presence in Fritz's slow-paced writing career might be the source
of inspiration he so dearly needed. Lovecraft replied promptly on
November 2 of that year, the seed of an invigorating
correspondence, which lasted till Lovecraft's passing. Fritz Leiber
and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark presents Lovecraft's
letters to Leiber, an impressive selection of Leiber's fiction
which shows Lovecraft's influence, and a selection of Leiber's
essays on Lovecraft and Matters Lovecraftian. Features an
introduction by Ben J. S. Szumskyj and an afterword by S.T. Joshi.
This Hugo Award–winning 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.
After their legendary adventures in the northern wastes and beyond,
Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior, and the Gray Mouser, master
thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, are back home in
Lankhmar again, and looking for an easy time. But Lankhmar is under
attack from a strange horde of invaders, including a two-headed
dragon and an army of miniature wanderers ... Once those threats
are seen off, a quest to the farthest reaches of Nehwon is in
prospect. And then, in the last book of their adventures, Fafhrd
goes sailing through the clouds, and the Mouser takes to the seas,
before we finally bid a fond, if sad, farewell to Lankhmar. THE
SECOND BOOK OF LANKHMAR includes the last three volumes of the
hugely enjoyable series.
From the moment when they first met, in the commission of the same,
audacious theft, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold
Waste, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert
swordsman, felt no ordinary affinity. Forged over the gleam of
sharpened steel as, back to back, they faced their foes, theirs was
a friendship that would take them from adventure to misadventure
across all of Nehwon, from the caves of the inner earth to the
waves of the outer sea. But it was in the dark alleys and noisome
back streets of the great fog-shrouded city of Lankhmar that they
became legends. THE FIRST BOOK OF LANKHMAR includes the first four
volumes of the hugely enjoyable Swords series.
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