Edited by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $15.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-61696-069-8
Heroes and their mighty deeds populate the pages of this delightfully kitschy, yet absorbing anthology of sword and sorcery short stories from the 1930s onward. Hartwell and Weisman have selected some of the best short-form work in the genre,...
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Fritz Leiber, Author . Night Shade $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59780-180-5
The versatility of SFWA Grand Master Leiber (1910–1992) is ably demonstrated by these 17 superb stories, each of which has “wonder blazing at its core.” “Smoke Ghost” places a classic ghost story in a modern urban...
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Fritz Leiber, Author Tor Books $18.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-312-85408-9
A newly surfaced work by a grand master of the field always occasions high hopes, which are neither met nor dashed in this instance. This novella was drafted by Leiber (1910-1992) in the 1930s, under the influence of H.P. Lovecraft, then revised for
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Fritz Leiber, Author Dark Harvest $21.95 (601p) ISBN 978-0-913165-48-5
The year 1939 was a turning point for science fiction and fantasy. It saw the first publication of stories by Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt and Theodore Sturgeon, who, with a few others, virtually created modern science fiction, and...
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Edited by Benjamin Szumskyj, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59606-324-2
More the literary equivalent of a set of DVD extras than a true collection, these stories, poems, and fragments might intrigue Leiber completists, but won't offer much to readers looking for entertainment. Most of the included pieces are incomplete,
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Fritz Leiber, Author, Fritz Lieber, Author Ace Books $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-45125-8
``Leiber's first published story in 1939 began the Fafhrd and Graynnouncements has Grey/i don't know/we have this from the review/which the house supplied/pk Mouser series of sword and sorcery tales that concludes with the four entries in this...
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Fritz Leiber, Author, H. P. Lovecraft, Author, S. T. Joshi, Editor Wildside Press $19.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-8095-0078-9
Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark, edited by Ben J.S. Szumskyj and S.T. Joshi, collects Lovecraft's letters to Leiber and his wife; Leiber's short stories and poems influenced by Lovecraft; and Leiber's essays on Lovecraft....
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Fritz Leiber, Author, Sarah L. Thomson, Author, David Wiesner, Illustrator , illus. by David Wiesner, adapted by Sarah L. Thomson. ibooks/ Milk & Cookies $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-03591-3
As an art student, Caldecott medalist Wiesner (The Three Pigs
) created a visual version of Lieber's novelette about a craps game with Death: the "bones" here double as dice and the opponent's skeletal body. In this moody exercise in
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Fritz Leiber, Author, Rodger Gerberding, Illustrator, Roder Gerberding, Illustrator Donald M. Grant Publishers $60 (260p) ISBN 978-1-880418-17-8
This whimsical book is the first complete collection of the cat stories of the late Leiber (1910-1992), best known for his ``Fafhrd and Gray Mouser'' series, and features his last story, written especially for this volume. The roundup also serves as
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Michael H. Payne, Author, Fritz Leiber, Author Tor Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86783-6
Somewhere near a blissful river in an alternative North America where wild animals run their own idyllic society, a tiny band of unlikely questors sets out to save their world from a deadly plague. Lizardly little Skink, head cook and tart-tongued...
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