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Speak Out With Your Geek Out: Sword & Sorcery Fiction
Operation Speak Out With Your Geek Out is an initiative to raise awareness of who “geeks” really are, and to destroy some hurtful negative stereotypes, by getting people to talk about the things we enjoy and why we enjoy them, in the hopes that others may learn to appreciate them too. Sword and sorcery. To … Continue reading »
Skullport Tales: Actual Play 8 – “Bazaar of the Bizarre”
Continuing from last session, the party runs out the back of the Silk Scabbard into an alley, where they find a gang of duergar and their pet monitor lizard beating up a kobold merchant. The party beats the gang fairly easily, and heads to the Cartways black market following a clue to find a person … Continue reading »
Bad Neighborhoods in Fantasy Fiction
Suvudo.com has an article about bad neighborhoods in fantasy fiction, accompanying the release of Daniel Polansky’s debut novel Low Town (which looks good, and I look forward to reading as soon as I can carve out some time). I contribute a bit on Lankhmar, and am attributed as a “Leiber scholar”. Woohoo! Read it here.
Fritz Leiber Studies: Swords Against Wizardry, Part 2
Stardock As we’re discussed earlier, Fafhrd was based on Fritz Leiber himself. One of Leiber’s many interests was mountain climbing, so naturally mountain climbing plays a large part in Fafhrd’s back story: his father was a passionate, obsessive climber, and died while scaling a previously unscalable slope. Leiber’s father met no such fate, so there … Continue reading »
Fritz Leiber Studies: Writers of the Dark
The full and proper title of this book is Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark. There is an introduction by Ben S. Szumskyj and an afterward by S.T. Joshi, the two of them together serving as editors for this volume, which talk about the relationship between the two authors and the latter’s … Continue reading »
Fritz Leiber Studies: Swords Against Wizardry, Part 1
Dedication This book is dedicated to Harry Otto Fischer, Poul Anderson and Paul Turner. We have already talked about Fischer in the introduction to Swords and Deviltry, and his contribution to the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser mythos appears in this book. Poul Anderson was a Golden Age science fiction and fantasy writer who won … Continue reading »
Fritz Leiber Studies: Swords In the Mist, Part 4
The Wrong Branch Following “When The Sea King’s Away”, our lads are having problems with rough weather and sea monsters. They come to the conclusion that they’ve been cursed by the sea king. If they flee to land, they reckon, they’ll still have problems with rivers and rainfall, so they seek to have the curse … Continue reading »
Fritz Leiber Studies: Swords In the Mist, Part 3
Their Mistress, the Sea This was written in 1968 specifically for this collection. It’s less of a story than a montage, getting us from the end of “Lean Times in Lankhmar” to the beginning of “When the Sea King’s Away”. Our lads spend some time at sea, recover from the state they’d allowed themselves to … Continue reading »
Fritz Leiber Studies: Swords In the Mist, Part 2
Lean Times in Lankhmar Following their strong declarations of freedom and autonomy in “The Cloud of Hate”, the hard times continue for Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and they end up taking more-or-less steady jobs. The Mouser ends winds up running what’s essentially a mob crew for a thug named Pulg (with a “guh”), shaking … Continue reading »
