Lean Times in Lankhmar

A Positronic Book

By: Fritz Leiber

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Paperback | 28 February 2021

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48 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 0.31

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First published in 1959, Lean Times in Lankhmar is a classic sword-and-sorcery tale featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser at their most cunning-and most desperate.

When fortune runs dry in the teeming city of Lankhmar, its most famous rogues must adapt to survival by any means available. What follows is a wry and atmospheric adventure of shifting loyalties, religious opportunism, and calculated reinvention. As competing cults rise and fall amid the city's shadows, Leiber blends irony with tension, revealing both the absurdity and the danger embedded in urban power.

Part of the celebrated Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser cycle, the story exemplifies Leiber's distinctive contribution to fantasy: morally complex heroes, richly textured cityscapes, and an undercurrent of sardonic intelligence. Neither epic nor pastoral, his Lankhmar tales helped define modern sword-and-sorcery fiction, influencing generations of fantasy writers who followed.

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