Fritz Leiber

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Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was a science fiction, horror and fantasy writer.

Among his more notable creations are Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, of whose adventures there are seven books.

  • Born: December 24, 1910
  • Died: September 5, 1992


Works:

Stories:

  • 1961: Scylla's Daughter (novelette in Fantastic)

Work in progress.

Books:

  • 1943: Conjure Wife (originally appeared in Unknown Worlds, April 1943)
  • 1943: Gather, Darkness! (serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, May, June, and July 1943)
  • 1945: Destiny Times Three
  • 1953: The Sinful Ones (rewrite of You're All Alone, an abbreviated version of which appeared in 1950 Fantastic Adventures)
  • 1953: The Green Millennium
  • 1961: The Big Time (expanded from the Hugo-winning version serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction, March and April 1958), part of the Change War series
  • 1961: The Silver Eggheads (expansion of the 1959 version in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
  • 1964: The Wanderer
  • 1966: Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (novelisation of a screenplay by Clair Huffaker)
  • 1968: Swords in the Mist
  • 1968: Swords Against Wizardry
  • 1968: The Swords of Lankhmar
  • 1969: A Specter is Haunting Texas
  • 1970: Swords and Deviltry
  • 1970: Swords Against Death
  • 1977: Our Lady of Darkness
  • 1977: Swords and Ice Magic
  • 1980: A rewritten version of The Sinful Ones
  • 1988: The Knight and Knave of Swords
  • 1997: The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich (Novella in the style of H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1936 and lost for decades)

Work in progress.