Jan 2, 2010

The Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser Stories | Related Titles

The seven books in the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series — five short story collections and two novels — although theoretically chronological, are to a very great extent interchangeable. The mood may vary from story to story and the later works are written with more polish than the earlier ones, but everything in the series is at least readable. Two works, however stand out. Strongly plotted and rather sexy, The Swords of Lankhmar (1968), it can be argued, is one of the two or three finest sword-and-sorcery novels ever written. Equally good is the Hugo and Nebula Award winning...