Andy reviewed Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber
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2 stars
The back stories were real boring, but “Ill Met in Lanhkmar” was worth reading. Three stars for that story on its own.
256 pages
English language
Published Aug. 2, 1979 by Ace.
[From back cover]
Here is the beginning of the legendary epic that has become a classic of fantasy adventure. At first, they seemed an unlikely pair: Fafhrd, the white-robed princeling of the barbaric cold waste; the Gray Mouser, a wizardling suspended between magic white and black.
Little did they realize, as they suspiciously eyed each other thatn night in murky Lankhmar, that they were two long-sundered, matching halves of a greater hero - that they would be comrades through a thousand quests and a hundred lifetimes of adventures, with their SWORDS AND DEVILTRY.
The back stories were real boring, but “Ill Met in Lanhkmar” was worth reading. Three stars for that story on its own.