So rather than this being a modern edition - where at times you can have the revisions and imperfections corrected removing some of the quirks and idiosyncrasies which to me add to the character of the book (unless of course you find those editions where whole chapters have been missed out). As I said before you have the various adventures collected in what is now called the Swords series - however even though you have here the omnibus edition (as the Goodreads title shows, books 3 & 4) they are treated like separate books with the individual books getting their own contents pages detailing the various stories within. Lieber, フリッツ・ライバーĪnd so on to the next collected edition - now at this point I want say something that I find rather endearing about this series. Used These Alternate Names: Maurice Breçon, Fric Lajber, Fritz Leiber, Jr., Fritz R. Leiber's capacity for endless self-reinvention and productive self-examination kept him, until his death, one of the most modern of his sf generation. Leiber's late short fiction, and the fine horror novel Our Lady of Darkness, combine autobiographical issues like his struggle with depression and alcoholism with meditations on the emotional content of the fantastic genres.

Leiber's science fiction includes the planet-smashing The Wanderer in which a large cast mostly survive flood, fire, and the sexual attentions of feline aliens, and the satirical A Spectre is Haunting Texas in which a gangling, exo-skeleton-clad actor from the Moon leads a revolution and finds his true love. He found his mature voice early in the first of the sword-and-sorcery adventures featuring the large sensitive barbarian Fafhrd and the small street-smart-ish Gray Mouser he returned to this series at various points in his career, using it sometimes for farce and sometimes for gloomy mood pieces-The Swords of Lankhmar is perhaps the best single volume of their adventures. was one of the more interesting of the young writers who came into HP Lovecraft's orbit, and some of his best early short fiction is horror rather than sf or fantasy.

Lean Times in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber