Fritz Leiber (1910–1992)
Autor(a) de Swords and Deviltry
About the Author
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was born December 24, 1910, the son of a notable Shakespearean actor. He was a graduate of the University of Chicago where he had majored in psychology and physiology, and also attended Episcopal General Theological Seminary. Leiber was an Episcopal Minister from 1932 to mostrar mais 1933, but was encouraged to join his father's company, and toured with him in 1934, leaving two years later when he married in 1936. Leiber became an Editor with Consolidated Book Publishers in Chicago from 1937 to 1941. He was a Speech and Drama Instructor at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1941 to 1942, a Precision Inspector at Douglas Air Craft Company, Santa Monica from 1942 to 1944, an Associate Editor for Science Digest Magazine from 1944 to 1956, and a Freelance Writer from 1956 to1992. Leiber's interest in writing came from correspondences with a a close college friend, Harry Fischer. Together they developed alter ego characters: Nordic Fafhrd a tall gangly limbed individual from 'the North' - based on Leiber, and the effervescent Grey Mouser - based on Fischer. Leiber first featured the characters in a story, "Adepts Gambit". The story was rejected, but the two characters reappeared in his first published story "Two Sought Adventure", which was published in Unknown magazine John W Campbell, of Astounding Science Fiction was Leiber's first editor. Leiber's first major work as an SF author came with his novel Gather, Darkness! in 1943, concerning the overthrow of a religious dictatorship. An anthology, Ill Met in Lankhmar, published in 1970, received the Hugo science fiction award. Leiber also received a Life Award for his contribution to his field, presented at the Second World Fantasy Convention. He regularly contributed a column to the SF trade magazine, Locus. Leiber was a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and a Lecturer for Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshops at Clarion State College and San Francisco State University. In his lifetime, Leiber won 7 Hugo Awards and a Hugo Grandmaster of Fantasy Award , 2 Nebula Awards and a Nebula Grandmaster Award, an August Derleth Award, 3 World Fantasy and one British Fantasy Awards, a Clark Ashton Award, a Balrog Award, a Locus Award, 3 Gigamesh Awards, an Anne Radcliffe Award, a University of Chicago Proffesional Achievemant Citation, and a Bram Stoker Life Achievement Award. He was also nominated for 7 other Nebula Awards, as well as 4 Lovecraft's and one Second Stage Lensman at Moscon. Leiber has appeared in television, film, on radio and in theater, and has written over 40 books. Fritz Leiber died September 5, 1992 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Photo by Lars-Olov Strandberg,
Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
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Seacon '79 (37th World Science Fiction Convention),
Brighton, England, 1979.
Copyright © Lars-Olov Strandberg
Séries
Obras por Fritz Leiber
Swords' Masters (Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of Lankhmar; Swords and Ice Magic) (1968) 238 exemplares
The Third Science Fiction Megapack: 26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Tales (2012) 60 exemplares
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 2: The Circle Curse / The Howling Tower (1991) — Original author — 16 exemplares
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 4: Lean Times in Lankhmar / When the Sea King's Away (1991) — Original Author — 12 exemplares
A Bad Day for Sales [short story] 12 exemplares
The 11th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 36 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories (2016) 11 exemplares
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 3: The Price of Pain Ease / Bazaar of the Bizarre (1991) — Autor — 10 exemplares
Try and Change the Past [short story] 9 exemplares
Nice Girl with Five Husbands 7 exemplares
America the Beautiful [short story] 6 exemplares
When the Change-Winds Blow [short story] 5 exemplares
The Night He Cried 5 exemplares
The Big Holiday 4 exemplares
The Foxholes of Mars 4 exemplares
The Man Who Never Grew Young [short story] 4 exemplares
Wanted—An Enemy [short story] 4 exemplares
Le cycle des Épées (Majuscules) Epées et démons ; Epées et mort ; Epées et brumes ; Epées et sorciers ; Epées… (1970) 3 exemplares
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes [short story] 3 exemplares
Fritz leiber les nouvelles t01 3 exemplares
The Death Of Princes 3 exemplares
Induction 3 exemplares
Game For Motel Room 3 exemplares
Mysterious Doings In The Metropolitan Museum 3 exemplares
The Lion and the Lamb 2 exemplares
The Glove 2 exemplares
The Button Molder [short story] 2 exemplares
Dark Wings 2 exemplares
Quicks Around the Zodiac with Illustrations by Alicia Austin and an Afterword by Gene Wolfe. (1983) 2 exemplares
Time in the Round 2 exemplares
Moon Duel 2 exemplares
One Station Of The Way {short story} 2 exemplares
The Dictator 2 exemplares
The Mystery of the Japanese Clock 2 exemplares
Horrible imaginings [short fiction] 2 exemplares
Cyclops 2 exemplares
LANKHMAR SERIES: Swords and Deviltry; Swords Against Death; Swords in the Mist; Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of… (1990) 2 exemplares
Kindergarten [short story] 2 exemplares
Last Letter [short story] 2 exemplares
The Dead Man 2 exemplares
Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2: With linked Table of Contents (Positronic Super Pack Series Book 20) (2016) 2 exemplares
The Ghost Light [novella] 2 exemplares
Swords &Ice Magic 1 exemplar
The girl with the hungry eyes 1 exemplar
Rare -Fritz Leiber LE CYCLE DES EPEES First thus 1970 1/6000 Fafhrd and Gray Mouser (1970) 1 exemplar
Short Science Fiction Collection 001 1 exemplar
La gran hora 1 exemplar
Collectible THE BEST OF FRITZ LEIBER First Hardcover edition 1974 Book Club Original Fine HC 1 exemplar
Die Frau, die immer verschwand 1 exemplar
Conjure Wife 1 exemplar
Neri araldi della notte 1 exemplar
Swords & Magic 1 exemplar
Ship of Shadows - Hugo Award Novella 1970 1 exemplar
Sci-Fi Classics of Fritz Leiber – 21 Time Travel & Dystopia Stories: The Big Time, The Creature from Cleveland… (2018) 1 exemplar
The Night of the Wolf (1966) 1 exemplar
Swords' Masters: Swords Against Wizardry; The Swords of Lankhmar; Swords and Ice Magic (1968) 1 exemplar
Gather, Darkness! Science Fiction Classics 1 exemplar
O Tempo, o Espaço e o Cérebro Livro 1 1 exemplar
La Mejor Ciencia Ficcion De Los Años 60 1 exemplar
In the Beginning 1 exemplar
Far Reach to Cygnus [short story] 1 exemplar
A História é Outra 1 exemplar
Mr. Bauer And The Atoms 1 exemplar
The Hatchery of Dreams [short story] 1 exemplar
Swords series 1 exemplar
The Mutant's Brother 1 exemplar
Business of Killing [short story] 1 exemplar
Mr. Adams' Garden Of Evil 1 exemplar
Black Has Its Charms [short story] 1 exemplar
Lie Still, Show White 1 exemplar
Night Passage [novelette] 1 exemplar
The Dreams Of Albert Moreland 1 exemplar
The Hound 1 exemplar
Leiber Fritz 1 exemplar
Great Science Fiction no. 6 1 exemplar
The Planet Explorer 1 exemplar
Icon Of The Imagination 1 exemplar
The Goggles of Dr. Dragonet [short story] 1 exemplar
Sword & sorcery: l'epopea di Fafhrd e del Gray Mouser: Il mondo di Nehwon, Le spade di Lankhmar, Spade tra i ghiacci,… (2020) 1 exemplar
The Fritz Leiber Minipack 1 exemplar
Miła dziewczyna 1 exemplar
Terror from the Depths [short story] 1 exemplar
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser [Comic Book] 1 exemplar
I traditori 1 exemplar
Le donne delle nevi 1 exemplar
Our Saucer Vacation [short story] 1 exemplar
La guerra e i labirinti 1 exemplar
The Gray Mouser: 1 1 exemplar
Last [short story] 1 exemplar
The Lotus Eaters [short story] 1 exemplar
Endfray of the Ofay [short story] 1 exemplar
Friends and Enemies [short story] 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories — Contribuidor — 1,874 exemplares
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time (1970) — Contribuidor — 1,833 exemplares
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contribuidor — 310 exemplares
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009) — Contribuidor — 261 exemplares
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 (1982) — Contribuidor — 237 exemplares
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contribuidor — 196 exemplares
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contribuidor — 180 exemplares
The Way It Wasn't : Great Science Fiction Stories of Alternate History (1996) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Contribuidor — 121 exemplares
Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction - Fourth Series (1984) — Contribuidor — 89 exemplares
Rivals of Weird Tales: 30 Great Fantasy & Horror Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps (1990) — Contribuidor — 88 exemplares
John Stanley's Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again: An A to Z Encyclopedia to the Cinema of the Fantastic or Is (1981) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 79 exemplares
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 15th Series (1966) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 77 exemplares
Weird Tales : a selection in facsimile, of the best from the world's most famous fantasy magazine (1976) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Special 25th Anniversary Anthology (1974) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
SF: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy: 4th Annual Volume (1958) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 : The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1996) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult: Stories by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton,… (1989) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume Two. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The… (1970) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 35 exemplares
In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2004) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror (1976) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1967, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1967) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1963, Vol. 25, No. 1 (1963) — Autor — 11 exemplares
Alien Worlds : three novellas of science fiction by award winning authors (1976) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1970, Vol. 38, No. 4 (1970) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and Lost Children (The Children of the Night) (1999) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1951, Vol. 2, No. 6 (1951) — Autor — 8 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1957, Vol. 13, No. 4 (1957) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Het dagboek in de sneeuw : en andere griezelverhalen — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1963, Vol. 24, No. 1 (1963) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The far side of time, thirteen original stories;: A science fiction anthology (1974) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Worlds near and far: Nine stories of science fiction and fantasy (1974) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 073 (November 1960) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Un passo avanti e due indietro — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Pistolero fuori tempo — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 106 (August 1963) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Fantastic science fiction stories. No. 061 (November 1959) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
I Premi Hugo 1976-1983 — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Den ¤elektriske myre og andre science fiction-fortællinger (1984) — Autor, algumas edições — 2 exemplares
Fantastic. No. 146 (August 1968) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Fantastic stories of imagination. No. 079 (May 1961) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Leiber, Fritz Reuter, Jr.
- Outros nomes
- Lathrop, Francis
Breçon, Maurice - Data de nascimento
- 1910-12-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1992-09-05
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Causa da morte
- stroke
- Locais de residência
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA - Educação
- University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
- Ocupações
- actor
speech instructor (UCLA)
editor
fantasy writer
drama teacher - Relações
- Leiber, Justin (son)
- Organizações
- Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - Prémios e menções honrosas
- SFWA Grand Master (1981)
Gandalf Award ( [1975])
Bram Stoker Award ( [1987])
SF Hall Of Fame ( [2001])
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (1976) - Agente
- Robert P. Mills
Richard Curtis (Richard Curtis Assoc.)
Membros
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "Sea Magic" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Setembro 1)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Sadness of the Executioner" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Março 28)
THE DEEP ONES: "In the Witch's Tent" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Dezembro 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Novembro 2021)
Leiber Masters of the Weird Tale em Centipede Press (Outubro 2021)
THE DEEP ONES: "Richmond, Late September, 1849" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Agosto 2021)
Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Junho 2021)
scifi from 50s or 60s? about man who becomes invisible to his coworkers em Name that Book (Março 2018)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Unholy Grail" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Setembro 2017)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Abril 2016)
SciFi Our world is a machine em Name that Book (Abril 2016)
THE DEEP ONES: "Spider Mansion" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Setembro 2012)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Black Gondolier" by Fritz Leiber em The Weird Tradition (Junho 2012)
short story; earth knocked out of orbit; survivor em Name that Book (Fevereiro 2009)
Críticas
Lankhmar Volume 1: Swords and Deviltry por Dark Horse Comics
There was probably a time in my youth this book would have done it for me. Alas, I am not in my youth. I have been meaning to read these books forever and I tried to like it. The rating is probably close to 2 1/2 stars but only because there was some stuff when the two main characters finally get together that were fun. I will probably give one more book a try because I bought the whole series many years ago when it went on sale.
Hidden bonus
Aside from the good tale from the first book Swords and Deviltry, this Prime selection also contains the three short stories that begin the second novelette Swords against Death. Those 3 are even better.
Aside from the good tale from the first book Swords and Deviltry, this Prime selection also contains the three short stories that begin the second novelette Swords against Death. Those 3 are even better.
Tirelessly entertaining
This is perhaps one of my most favorite books, for several reasons. First, it is well written, without a lot of plot errors like a majority of modern fiction. Second, it is a collection of shorter tales, so you can enjoy one or more tales according to the amount of time you have to read. Third, they are not just entertaining tales of adventure, but contain just the right amount of wry humor, but not silly in plot or execution. Lastly, they're eminently re-readable, a rare thing in my experience… (mais)
This is perhaps one of my most favorite books, for several reasons. First, it is well written, without a lot of plot errors like a majority of modern fiction. Second, it is a collection of shorter tales, so you can enjoy one or more tales according to the amount of time you have to read. Third, they are not just entertaining tales of adventure, but contain just the right amount of wry humor, but not silly in plot or execution. Lastly, they're eminently re-readable, a rare thing in my experience… (mais)
If you like low fantasy (less lofty and more gritty than, say, Tolkien) you'll probably love these classic stories of the two swordsmen and thieves, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Really refreshing while at the same time fundamental.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 346
- Also by
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- Membros
- 23,120
- Popularidade
- #914
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 478
- ISBN
- 777
- Línguas
- 16
- Marcado como favorito
- 98