Swords and Ice Magic

By Fritz Leiber

Book Overview

Stories of sword and sorcery by a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy!

In Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser discover how the sadness of the Executioner creates a macabre dance from the point of view of the choreographer. Beauties and beasts explain the dual nature of all life's creatures. Trapped in the Shadowland, our dogmatic duo finds the dualities of swords and needles, maps and territories, girls and demons, mortals and gods, learning of the mischievous vanity of the gods. Lost at sea, Gray Mouser becomes a natural philosopher, drifting, captive of the Great Equatorial Current. He wonders about fire and ice, about women and men, until they arrive at Rime Isle, a tragic comedy of a place, wandering gods and restless mortals, a comedy with puppets and puppet masters.

Before The Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber's fantastic but thoroughly flawed antiheroes, Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, adventured deep within the caves of Inner Earth, albeit a different one. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1504068939
• ISBN13: 9781504068932
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Open Road Media Science & Fantasy
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Super Reader

No, we are not making dessert out of the boys with quick hardening chocolate. Here there are a few more problems with gods, with getting lost in the dark, with getting lost on the ocean without appropriate conveyance, and in the end, back to being a bit on the chilly side, as you could guess. Another rough time. Swords and Ice Magic : 01 The Sadness of the Executioner - Fritz Leiber Swords and Ice Magic : 02 Beauty and the Beasts - Fritz Leiber Swords and Ice Magic : 03 Trapped in the Shadowland - Fritz Leiber Swords and Ice Magic : 04 The Bait - Fritz Leiber Swords and Ice Magic : 05 Under the Thumbs of the Gods - Fritz Leiber Swords and Ice Magic : 06 Trapped in the Sea of Stars - Fritz Leiber Swords and Ice Magic : 07 The Frost Monstreme - Fritz Leiber Swords and Ice Magic : 08 Rime Isle - Fritz Leiber The Death of Newhon uses the boys to help in the proper death of heroes. 4.5 out of 5 Girl splits male, violently. 4 out of 5 Death realm leavetaking, wizardly undertaking. 4 out of 5 Diamonds, short chick and tall fiends. 4 out of 5 Booze, women, unappreciated gods and scrawny thief girls 4.5 out of 5 The boat sailed on and on and on. 3.5 out of 5 Bored in the pub, cold sailing adventure appeals. 3.5 out of 5 Battle, nookie and grim god nasty nooses. 4 out of 5