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Swords & Ice Magic Mass Market Paperback – 1 Jan. 1977

by Fritz Leiber (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
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    Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publication date
    1 Jan. 1977
  5. ISBN-10
    0441791662
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0441791668
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 Jan. 1977
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0441791662
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0441791668
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 458 g
  • Book 6 of 8 ‏ : ‎ Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
  • Customer reviews:
    4.3 out of 5 stars 151 ratings

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Fritz Leiber

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Fritz Leiber is considered one of science fiction's legends. Author of a prodigious number of stories and novels, many of which were made into films, he is best known as creator of the classic Lankhmar fantasy series. Fritz Leiber has won awards too numerous to count including the coveted Hugo and Nebula, and was honored as a lifetime Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He died in 1992.

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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2017
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    Have also loved these books, nice to have them on Kindle.
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  • Henk Beentje
    3.0 out of 5 stars Lacks a bit of the old magic, and lots of Kindle transcription errors
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 2013
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    Six short stories and two longer ones: the sadness of the executioner (in which Death wants to kill himself some heroes); Beauty and the beasts (very short); Trapped in the Shadowland (Death still trying); the bait (very short); Under the thumbs of the Gods (Issek and Mog strike back, and many girls are remembered); Trapped in the sea of stars (dreamy and philosophical troubles at sea); the Frost Monstreme and Rime isle. These last two are of a quest in the far North, where our heroes are lured to by two seductive ladies - how else? Rime Isle is threatened by the Sea Mingols, and some ancient Norse Gods need the help of two established Heroes to withstand the invasion... Possibly. Maybe the Gods, as always, have different purposes then mere men...

    My opinion: published in 1975, this collection has a very different 'feel' to the older stories (which i love, five stars the lot!). It is like this has been written by someone else, or Leiber got bored and needed to fulfil a contract, or he was going through a bad spell... Whatever the reason, I think this is pretty flat stuff which never really lifts off. Plus the Kindle version is full of OCR transcription errors - why did no-one proofread this? Very irritating, this, and doesn't do a moderate book any good.
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  • R is for Reading
    2.0 out of 5 stars transfer to Kindle is poor
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 February 2013
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    The stories are great and as I recall them from my yellowing paper edition, but Amazon and the publisher should hang its head in shame for the terrible transition to kindle. The book is riddled with errors, it looks like a it's been run through a scanner and character recognition software, with zero proof reading.

    Just as you get in to the story and it's moving along nicely, you screech to a halt to figure out some bizarre misspelling.

    It's not a bargain price, surely someone could have been bothered to check it?
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  • TRA 2499
    5.0 out of 5 stars Just wish there was more to read in this book. Loved it!
    Reviewed in the United States on 23 February 2025
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    Love the series!
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  • Michael Valdivielso
    4.0 out of 5 stars Sixth book....
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 August 2011
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    While this isn't a novel, Fritz Leiber only wrote one novel of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, the short stories do fit together to make a nice, overhanging plot. Starring Death, the sea, and the Gods, some from there and some from here, the book is full of adventure, action, and mystery.
    I had to take one star away for the fact that much of it does feel the same - just a slightly different version than the stories printed before.
    On the other hand, it was nice to see Loki and Odin starring in a fantasy book.
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  • Josh Mauthe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pulp, swords, theft, wizards, seduction, angry gods, irritable Death - you know, the usuals
    Reviewed in the United States on 23 April 2022
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    Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series has become one of those series that I pace out for comfort reasons as much as anything. I want to devour them all (and sadly, this is the penultimate volume), but I know that they’re going to bring me joy and fun, so I hold off on them until I need a nice dose of happiness. So of course Swords and Ice Magic made for a great vacation read this year. Unabashedly pulpy as ever, the sixth volume in the series finds our boys being pursued by a very annoyed death, dealing with some abandoned gods who decide to turn the tables on the ever-priapic heroes, and in the middle of a feud that’s much older than they could realize as they’re drafted into the battle for an icy land. Your enjoyment of these will undeniably hinge on how much you love a pulpy writing style (and, yes, our heroes are definitely prone to viewing women entirely in terms of their beauty and in sexual terms; that being said, Leiber has a tendency to give women the upper hand more often than you might think, but the objectification is undeniably real and prevalent), but Leiber’s refusal to take his world too seriously and willingness to embrace the sheer adventuring, wild spirit of his tales (to say nothing of actually shaking up the status quo a bit at the end!) is what always brings me back to these drolly funny, engaging tales.
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  • HungryCats
    3.0 out of 5 stars Losing his touch
    Reviewed in the United States on 10 April 2013
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    Assuming that the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series is organized chronologically, then I would have to say Leiber's skill as a storyteller had begun to slip by the time he wrote the stories in this volume, though not nearly so much as in the next and final volume. Basically, his stories lose their light-relatedness, their wit, and their pacing. The trend begins in this volume, but becomes much worse in the next. I recommend reading the first five volumes, and _maybe_ this one, then skipping the last.
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  • Kenneth B.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and tbe Grey Mouser srories
    Reviewed in the United States on 31 January 2016
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    The absolute best sword and sorcery ever written. Fritz Leiber is an absolute master of the genre, and his unsurpassed vocabulary is like reading Shakespeare, tongue in cheek.I read every Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser story I could wolf down as a teenager, and the stories are even better now, in my sixties.The only other ones to come close are the Elric of Melnibone stories. Fritz Leiber is a master!
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