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Fantasy Literature

ChazInAz

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2. Early Leiber is another example.

Reply to dimbear (Original post)

Sat Aug 3, 2013, 11:32 PM

Aug 2013

Just re-read "Adept's Gambit", one of the first Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories. Beautifully written, very adult and thoroughly enjoyable. To think that it was written in the '30s, and that H.P. Lovecraft gave Leiber some suggestions on it!

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The greatest advantage of fantasy is that it ages well. [View all] dimbear Dec 2011 OP

Yes! House on the Borderland is a superb story. Hard to believe closeupready Feb 2012 #1

Early Leiber is another example. ChazInAz Aug 2013 #2

Leiber is a wonderful example of that long long arc, where characters develop dimbear Aug 2013 #3