Three of Swords: Swords and Deviltry; Swords Against Death; Swords in the Mist

by Leiber, Fritz

Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

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Book description: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1977. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 3-IN-1 BOOK CLUB HARDCOVER -- INCLUDES: SWORDS AND DEVILTRY; SWORDS AGAINST DEATH; SWORDS IN THE MIST. Light dust jacket edge wear, but dust jacket looks attractive under fresh mylar.. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 - September 5, 1992) was an influential American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also an expert chess player and a champion fencer. Leiber married Jonquil Stephens on January 16, 1936, and their son Justin Fritz Leiber was born in 1938. Jonquil's death in 1969 precipitated a three-year bout of alcoholism, but he then returned to his original form with a fantasy novel set in modern-day San Francisco, Our Lady of Darkness -- serialised in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as "The Pale Brown Thing" (1977) -- in which cities were the breeding grounds for new types of elementals called paramentals, summonable by the dark art of megapolisomancy. Our Lady of Darkness won the World Fantasy Award. In the last years of his life, Leiber married his second wife, Margo Skinner, a journalist and poet with whom he had been friends for many years. Many people believed that Leiber was living in poverty on skid row, but the truth of the matter was that Leiber preferred to live simply in the city, spending his money on dining, movies and travel. In the last years of his life, royalty cheques from TSR, the makers of Dungeons and Dragons, who had licensed the mythos of the Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series, were enough in themselves to ensure that he lived comfortably. Leiber's death occurred a few weeks after a physical collapse while traveling from a science-fiction convention in Toronto with Skinner. The cause of his death was given as "senile decay". He wrote a short autobiography, "Not Much Disorder and Not So Early Sex", which can be found in the collection The Ghost Light (1984). A critical biography, Witches of the Mind by Bruce Byfield, is available from Necronomicon Press, and an essay examining his literary relationship with Lovecraft appears in S. T. Joshi's The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004). Leiber's own literary criticism, including several ground-breaking essays on Lovecraft, was collected in the volume Fafhrd and Me (1990), published by Wildside Press." -- Wikipedia

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