The story was initially published in Fantastic magazine in 1970 and would go on to be nominated for both Hugo and Nebula Awards, the top honors in science fiction and fantasy writing. The Gray Mouser does not appear in “The Snow Women,” which tells of the early adventures of a teenage Fafhrd. The stories included in the collection are “The Snow Women,” “The Unholy Grail,” and “Ill Met in Lankhamar.” They are representatives of the lovable scoundrel mold of anti-heroic-but-really-just-heroic figures that inspired such later examples as Han Solo and Autolycus from Xena: Warrior Princess. Fafhrd is a giant barbarian from the north towering about two feet over the Mouser. Lieber is the author who actually coined the term “sword and sorcery” for the fantasy genre in which his two heroes excel. Originally published in 1970, Swords and Deviltry is a collection of tales by Fritz Lieber featuring his most famous characters, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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Her holidays were spent with her mother’s extended family at Moeraki, on the Otago East Coast, a landscape filled with the residue of its Maori past, which remains important for linking Hulme with her Maori ancestors: ‘I love it better than any place on Earth. Hulme was schooled at North New Brighton Primary School and Aranui HS (Christchurch). Her mother came from Oamaru, of Orkney Scots and Maori descent (Käi Tahu, Käti Mämoe). Her father, a carpenter and first-generation New Zealander whose parents came from Lancashire, died when Hulme was 11. Within New Zealand she has held writing fellowships at several universities, served on the Literary Fund Advisory Committee (1985–89) and the Indecent Publications Tribunal (1985–90), and in 1986–88 was appointed ‘cultural ambassador’ while travelling in connection with the bone people.īorn and raised in Otautahi, Christchurch, Hulme is the eldest of six children. Hulme, Keri (1947– ), novelist, short story writer and poet, gained international recognition with her award-winning the bone people. FROM THE OXFORD COMPANION TO NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. As in many of Kings works, the protagonist of the story is a writer, Mike Enslin, who writes non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places. In 2002, '1408' was collected in written form as the 12th story in Kings collection Everythings Eventual. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. It is the third tale in the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, released in 1999. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. A brother of Mircea Adameșteanu's became a political prisoner of the Communist regime another, the renowned archaeologist Dinu Adameșteanu, had taken refuge in Italy. 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