The Knight and Knave of Swords is a fantasy short story collection by Fritz Leiber featuring his sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. It is chronologically the seventh and last volume in the complete seven volume edition.
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It was a utopian future for writers. The invention of the wordmill – nicknamed the "Silver Egghead" – did all the hard work, grinding out endless stories for an insatiable public. All the writers had to do was cash their checks and pose for...
They had a dark talent the world had lost….
Carr Mackay had an okay job, a beautiful woman and a lot of big plans—a pathway marked for himself through life.
But one day he met a beautiful, frightened girl who didn’t quite...
One of them was a huge, brawny, full-bearded barbarian from the northlands of Nehwon. His name was Fafhrd, his weapon a broadsword.
The other was a small, nimble man dressed all in gray. Men called him the Gray Mouser, and he carried both rapier...
All eyes were watching the eclipse of the Moon when the Wanderer — a huge, garishly colored artificial world — emerged. Only a few scientists even suspected its presence, and then, suddenly and silently, it arrived, dwarfing and threatening...
Na ziemskiej orbicie pojawia się, po wyjściu z nadprzestrzeni, olbrzymi obcy statek kosmiczny wielkości małej planety. Zszokowani Ziemianie obserwują jak obcy pojazd zaczyna rozwalać nasz Księżyc,...
Zuerst beobachteten nur ein paar Wissenschaftler das Herannahen des Planeten »Wanderer«.
Dann war er plötzlich für alle Menschen sichtbar und spürbar — ein neuer Planet, der an Naturgewalt alles übertraf was die Erde in...