The Knight and Knave of Swords

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The Knight and Knave of Swords (Paperback, 2021, Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy)

Brossura, 280 pagine

Pubblicato il 28 Settembre 2021 da Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy.

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978-1-5040-6891-8
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While Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar, is Leiber’s fully realized, vivid, incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery.

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Review of 'The Knight and Knave of Swords (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book 7)' on 'Goodreads'

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Ed ecco che dopo circa un anno, con lunghe pause, completo la saga di Lankhmar!
Prima di commentare questo settimo e ultimo volume, però, urge un riepilogo dei precedenti sei, per fare il punto del mio lungo viaggio assieme a Fafhrd e al Grigio Acchiappatopi:

1. [b:Swords and Deviltry|39964784|Swords and Deviltry (Lankhmar, 1)|Fritz Leiber|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1524759496l/39964784.SY75.jpg|449577] ci aveva mostrato le origini dei due personaggi e la loro natura fedifraga, ribalda e anche un po' tragica con una sequenza di tre bei thiller.
2.[b:Swords Against Death|39964826|Swords Against Death (Lankhmar, 2)|Fritz Leiber|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1524759909l/39964826.SY75.jpg|1807521] raccoglieva le avventure autoconclusive dei giovani Fafhrd e Acchiappatopi, alle volte un po' troppo aderenti alla formula del "mostro della settimana" howardiano, altre volte basate sui primi semi di un worldbuilding raffinatissimo.
3. [b:Swords in the Mist|41015723|Swords in the Mist|Fritz Leiber|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1533065351l/41015723.SY75.jpg|98587] ci ha presentato il duo ormai adulto e in preda a una caratteristica …