The Swords of Lankhmar. Swords and Ice Magic. The Knight and Knave of Swords

Za mnogie desyatiletiya do «Ved'maka» i Dzhordzha Martina vselennoy mecha i magii pravil Fric Leyber. V etu knigu voshli roman i zaklyuchitel'nye dva sbornika proizvedeniy o priklyucheniyah lyubimyh antigeroev grand-mastera — varvara-rubaki, umeyushchego nedurno pet', i pronyrlivogo vorishki, vladeyushchego priemami magii. Fenteziynyy duet, iznachal'no zadumannyy avtorom v kachestve tonkoy parodii na govardovskogo Konana, bystro obrel sobstvennuyu unikal'nuyu sud'bu i stol' zhe bystro proslavilsya. V mrachnom mire pod nazvaniem Nevon Fafhrd i Seryy Myshelov bez kolebaniy vvyazyvayutsya v samye neveroyatnye peredelki, sovershayut chudesa vyzhivaniya i nikogda ne teryayut chelovechnosti i chuvstva yumora.