It’s been a while since I read a book on my “bucket list” of genre classics. I picked up an omnibus of the first three Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser anthologies: Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death and Swords in the Mist. I’m afraid to say that other than “Lean Times in Lankhmar”, I’ve found [...]
Not a fan of Fafhrd
Filed under Reviews on October 28, 2008
Keywords: books, Fafhrd, fantasy fiction, Fritz Leiber, Gray Mouser, Lankhmar, sword-and-sorcery
Writing sword-and-sorcery fiction
Filed under Tips & Tools on May 23, 2008
Keywords: Conan, magic, sword-and-sorcery
A close second to epic fantasy in popularity would be the sword-and-sorcery sub-genre. The term was originally coined by author Fritz Leiber in response to Michael Moorcock’s demand to classify the fantasy adventure stories written by Robert E. Howard. As such, Conan and Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser came to typify sword-and-sorcery.
The genre suffered some [...]
