fpw Wrote:My hat's off to you for recognizing that. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser were a big influence on that story, right down to the size disparity between Glaeken and Cragjaw. You sound well read in the field...they're largely forgotten now.
Forgotten, but not gone...
Dark Horse (of comic fame) just republished all 7 books over the past 2 years, in paperback and, in March of 2009, Robin Wayne Bailey's
Swords Against the Shadowland (book 8), a reprint of the 1998 White Wolf Publishing novel by the same name, authorized by Leiber's estate, will complete the series...thus far.
[I am also what one one might call well-read in the field
]
You cannot imagine how cool I thought it was that the Adversary Cycle started out in an age of swords and magic. I ache for the Glaeken prequel series.
-Wapitikev
Axioms Jack seems to live by (inadvertantly or not):
Why he does what he does: "I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either." Bruce Wayne, Identity Crisis
On Rasalom: "Water's wet, the sky is blue...and good old Satan Claus, Jimmy...he's out there...and he's just gettin' stronger." Joe Hallenbeck, The Last Boyscout