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"Robin has splendidly captured the quintessential spirit of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Somewhere in Lankhmar, Fritz is smiling" (Dennis L. McKiernan, national bestselling author). Lankhmar, an ancient and decadent city of magic, where witches and sorcerers scheme, where gods and ghosts walk the streets and shadow-haunted alleys, where violence and death dance together like lovers in the darkness. Lankhmar-a city of plague! Years ago, two rogues bound together by friendship and a shared show more destiny neither understood met in Lankhmar. Living by their swords, their wits and their daring, they sought adventure and love. Adventure they found, but love-they lost. In despair, they left the city, vowing never to return. Yet vows are made to be broken. Once again, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are drawn back to Lankhmar and quickly ensnared in its wizard-games as one jealous mage turns on his rivals and unleashes a black force not even he can control, a power that threatens the city itself. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, two of the greatest and most beloved characters in fantasy literature, return in this novel-length adventure by Nebula Award nominated author Robin Wayne Bailey. Swords Against the Shadowland, authorized by series creator Fritz Leiber, is a direct sequel to Leiber's famous story, "Ill-Met in Lankhmar!" Named one of the six best fantasy novels of 1998 by the Science Fiction Chronicle. show lessTags
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Great book, would've rated it A if it was resolved a little better in the end, very enjoyable, reminded me why I liked Leiber's series so well.
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- Canonical title
- Swords Against the Shadowland
- Original title
- Swords Against the Shadowland
- People/Characters
- Fafhrd; Gray Mouser
- Important places
- Lankhmar, Nehwon; Nehwon
- Dedication
- For Fritz Leiber, whose work I so admire, with the hope that I've done his creation some small justice.
For Richard Curtis and Patrick Neilson Hayden, with deepest gratitude for giving me this chance to walk where a giant ... (show all)went before.
And always for Diana. - Blurbers
- McKiernan, Dennis L.
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.087662
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
- DDC/MDS
- 813.087662 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Fantasy Sword and Sorcery
- LCC
- PS3552 .A378 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
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