Fritz Leiber
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Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910-Sepember 5, 1992) 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.
Works:
Stories:
In approximate order of publication:
- 1939: Two Sought Adventure (Unknown, August 1939)
- 1940: The Bleak Shore (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, November 1940)
- 1941: The Howling Tower (Unknown Fantasy Fiction, June 1941)
- 1942: The Sunken Land (Unknown Worlds, February 1942)
- 1943: Thieves' House (Unknown Worlds, February 1943)
- 1947: Adept's Gambit (in Night's Black Agents)
- 1951: Dark Vengeance (Suspense, Fall 1951)
- 1952: I'm Looking For Jeff (Fantastic, Fall 1952)
- 1953: The Seven Black Priests (Other Worlds Science Stories, May 1953)
- 1957: Induction (in Two Sought Adventure)
- 1958: Try and Change the Past (Astounding Science Fiction, March 1958)
- 1958: The Big Time (Galaxy Magazine, 2 parts: March - April 1958) Hugo award-winner
- 1958: A Deskful of Girls (Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1958)
- 1958: The Number of the Beast (Galaxy Magazine, December 1958)
- 1959: Damnation Morning (Fantastic, August 1959)
- 1959: Lean Times in Lankhmar (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, November 1959)
- 1959: The Mind Spider (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, November 1959)
- 1959: The Improper Authorities (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, November 1959)
- 1959: Tranquility, Or Else! (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, November 1959)
- 1960: The Oldest Soldier (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1960)
- 1960: When the Sea-King's Away... (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, May 1960)
- 1961: Scylla's Daughter (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1961)
- 1961: The Big Time (translated by Vanna Lombardi as Il grande tempo, Galaxy (Italian edition), 4 parts: November 1961 - February 1962)
- 1962: The Unholy Grail (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, October 1962)
- 1963: The Cloud of Hate (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1963)
- 1963: Bazaar of the Bizarre (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, August 1963)
- 1963: No Great Magic (Galaxy Magazine, December 1963)
- 1964: The Lords of Quarmall (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, 2 parts: January - February 1964) (with Harry Fischer)
- 1964: Adept's Gambit (abridged by the author) (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1964)
- 1965: Stardock (abridged by the author) (Fantastic (Fantasy Fiction Magazine), September 1965)
- 1965: Knight's Move (?)
- 1967: Black Corridor (Galaxy Magazine, December 1967)
- 1970: The Snow Women (Fantastic, April 1970)
- 1970: Ill Met In Lankhmar (Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1970)
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
- 1957: Two Sought Adventure (Gnome Press), collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- 1961: The Big Time (expanded from the 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)
- 1961: The Big Time / The Mind Spider and Other Stories (Ace Double, #D-491)
- 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
- 1978: The Change War (December 1978, Gregg Press, 0-8398-2493-9)
- 1980: A rewritten version of The Sinful Ones
- 1983: Changewar (May 1983, Ace, 0-441-10259-X) (a different collection from The Change War)
- 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.