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Join the renowned barbarian and thief in this sword-and-sorcery adventure from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. While The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Fritz Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well. They 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. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery. Swords Against Death, the second volume in the Lankhmar series, finds Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser beginning their real journey. Their hearts altered by the loss of first true love, they embark on a long and winding path of drunken debauchery and womanizing until crossing paths with two cross wizards, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes. A most violent of clashes ensues. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser descend into Thieves House to discover the exacting skill of the united backstabbing Thieves of Lankhmar and their rival guild, the Slayer's Brotherhood, the city's unionized killers. They would wander along the Bleak Shore to a howling tower to show how fear is not the product of murder but the cause. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser must resume their plundering and drunken debauchery until once again darkness had taken the balance for its favor and then a change would come. These are just a few of the encounters our swindling swordsmen will willingly endure in ridding their hearts of their first true loves. But did they know it would make them indentured swordsman servants to their former foes, the formidable Sheelba and Ningauble?

From a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy: In a post-apocalyptic future, a priest must fight the forces of evil in order to bring freedom to humanity. Three-hundred and sixty years after a nuclear holocaust ravaged mankind, the world is fraught with chaos and superstition. Endowed with scientific knowledge lost to the rest of humanity, Techno-priests of the Great God now rule. Jarles, originally of peasant descent, rises to become a priest of the Great God. He knows that the gospel is nothing but trickery propagated by non-believers. One day, he defies his priestly training and attempts to incite the peasants to rebelbut Jarles is not the only dissenter trying to bring down the priesthoodwitchcraft is slowly gaining strength and support among the populace. Little does Jarles know his rebellion is about to throw him headlong into the middle of the greatest holy war the world has ever seen.

Stories of suspense, surprise, wit, and weirdness from Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasyas well as a must-read horror authorFritz Leiber. Assembled from magazine submissions, fanzines, and even ';lost' manuscripts discovered among the author's personal papers, Day Dark, Night Bright includes the following short stories: ';Time Fighter,' ';Femmequin 973,' ';Night Passage,' ';Moon Duel,' ';Later Than You Think,' ';Mirror,' ';The 64 Square MadHouse,' ';All the Weed in the World,' ';The Mutant's Brother,' ';The Man Who Was Married to Space and Time,' ';Thought' ';Crystal Prison,' ';Bullet Was His Name,' ';Success,' ';To Make a Roman Holiday,' ';Bread Overhead,' ';The Reward,' ';Taboo,' ';Business of Killing,' and ';Day Dark, Night Bright.'

A collection of supernatural horror stories from the SFWA Grand Master and Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser novels. Assembled here is a selection of Mr. Leibers best horrific tales, many of which have been virtually unobtainable for decades. From the riveting ';Spider Mansion' and ';The Phantom Slayer' from Weird Tales to the more recent ';Lie Still, Snow White' and ';Black Has Its Charms' from rare, small press magazines, this collection provides an overview of Leiber's fifty plus years as an acknowledged master of the weird tale. This edition was edited by John Pelan and Steve Savile.

The burning wreck of a passenger jet with a missing cargo of gold and a desperate plea from a friend lead Tarzan of the Apes deep into intrigue in the jungles of Brazil. Soon the ape-man finds himself facing his most deadly nemesis yet: a criminal mastermind named Vinaro, whose enemies perish in mysterious explosions of gold and flame. But that may be only the beginning of Tarzan's challenges. For if he is to defeat Vinaro, Tarzan must confront him in the legendary golden city of Tucumai, from where no outsider has ever returned.

This is the fantasy anthology you've been looking for. Two hundred thousands words that will sweep you away to realms you've never imagined by some of the greatest writers the fantasy field has ever known. Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley Weinbaum Lean Times in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore The Hunt by Steve Rasnic Tem Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick The Wild One Marion Zimmer Bradley Second Sight Alan E. Nourse Visitors' Night at Joey Chicago's by Mike Resnick The Lost Gods by Dorothy Quick Beyond the Black River Robert E. Howard Show of Shows by Gene Mederos Dream World by R. A. Lafferty The Trader by Nicole Givens Kurtz Subject to Change Ron Goulart Storm over Warlock Andre Norton Witch of the Demon Seas Poul Anderson The Laminated Woman by Evelyn E. Smith The Hunt by Brea Viragh The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner Shatter the Wall by Sydney Van Scyoc Wizard by Laurence Janifer Famous Dead People by Warren Lapine Warm by Robert Sheckley How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei by Brenda Clough

Post-apocalyptic Dystopian Science Fiction I was one hundred miles from Nowhere-and I mean that literally-when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be stalking me. I'd been following a line of high-voltage towers all canted over at the same gentlemanly tipsy angle by an old blast from the Last War. I judged the girl was going in the same general direction and was being edged over toward my course by a drift of dust that even at my distance showed dangerous metallic gleams and dark humps that might be dead men or cattle. She looked slim, dark topped, and on guard. Small like me and like me wearing a scarf loosely around the lower half of her face in the style of the old buckaroos. We didn't wave or turn our heads or give the slightest indication we'd seen each other as our paths slowly converged...

"Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to be bringing you exactly the same picture of the past from one day to the next? Have you ever been afraid that your personality was changing because of forces beyond your knowledge or con

The Night of Long Knives is apost-apocolyptic novel taking place after a nuclear holocaust. Survivors are left to wander in a wasteland and survive by scavenging and murdering other people. A new culture of survival has arisen based on random killing. Other cultures also emerge that rekindle technology and are hostile to the nomadic murderers of the land. It is a brutal world that moves by one rule, as epitomized by the epigraph that begins chapter one:"Any man who saw you, or even heard your footsteps must be ambushed, stalked and killed, whether needed for food or not. Otherwise, so long as his strength held out, he would be on your trail."Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jrwas an American fantasy, horror and science fiction writer. He was an expert chess player and a champion fencer.

The Creature from the Cleveland Depths is a modern tale of an inner-directed sorcerer and an outer-directed sorcerer's apprentice. "Every time Gusterson dropped a new free idea into the fad-ridden mainstream world of underground cities and cozy crowds, it crystallized into something really strange, and things got out of hand. So he shouldn't have mentioned the reminder machine...."Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr was an American fantasy, horror and science fiction writer. He was an expert chess player and a champion fencer. He received the Gandalf award at the World Science Fiction Convention in 1975 and the Grand Master Award at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1981.

Witty, gripping and urbane, Fritz Leiber?s Lankhmar books are among the best loved of all modern fantasies