Sword & Sorcery: "An earthier sort of fantasy" discussion

Any Leiber will do...though most will read his Lankhmar series (Ffafhrd and the gray mouser.

Tangentially related... there is a Kickstarter of interest.. 4 days to go.
A DCC RPG boxed setting for Lankhmar, officially licensed by the estate of Fritz Leiber. Adventure with Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

I started Swords in the Mist last night. (I had reread the first two books in the series a few years back.) Almost finished with "Lean Times in Lankhmar", the second story. It's good stuff! I love Leiber's prose.

Woah right on, that game sounds like a lot of fun. Recently read the first two Lankhmar books and I'm waiting for Swords in the Mist to arrive in the mail (first copy the dude sent never arrived, so he's sending another). Pretty wicked books so far!

Joseph wrote: "I started Swords in the Mist last night. (I had reread the first two books in the series a few years back.) Almost finished with "Lean Times in Lankhmar", the second story. It's goo..."

Love your reviews, Joseph.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

S.E. wrote: "Love your reviews, Joseph."

Thanks! And I just started Swords Against Wizardry (the fourth book in the series), after which I'll probably shift over to Moorcock.

The Leiber books really are great in a way that I wasn't necessarily able to appreciate back in my younger days. I was aware of the characters (maybe from a write-up in Dragon Magazine and/or from seeing the Gods of Lanhkmar section of Deities & Demigods?), but I never really read much of the series in high school, mostly because it wasn't available at the library -- I had a copy of the first book in paperback, but I think that was about it. Eventually (my senior year in college) I finally got to read the whole series when I picked up the two-volume SFBC hardcover omnibus edition.

And finished Swords Against Wizardry, which was Leiber still at the top of his form.

Amazon deals

Swords and Deviltry 1 dollar

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

Over in the "Currently Reading" thread, Jack and Richard stumbled upon something interesting to me: I was unaware that Leiber's world was continued with other authors....i.e.,
Robin Wayne Bailey's Swords Against the Shadowlands


Can people comment on these pastiche/extensions? Were there other authors?

This is the only one I'm aware of. The description reads like it's a new continuing series, but I do t think it ever got off the ground.

I just got my Centipede Press edition of Swords and Deviltry. It is a beautiful thing:



Intro by Michael Moorcock, and a bunch of other bonus material at the end of the book.

Sweet, you got the Centipede edition!

Yep! I also have the Centipede editions of Kane and of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, and I'll probably be picking up their edition of the Elric series when the time comes.

I have to admit I do still love the Mike Mignola illustrations from the White Wolf editions.