Swords and Deviltry
core collection 1970 Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Record
| First published | 1970 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | collection |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.86 (13,776 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| Page count | 208 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781497699922 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- Series: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser core; position 1 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Fritz Leiber
Awards (verified)
- Nebula Award (Best Novella), 1970: won; For the constituent story 'Ill Met in Lankhmar' (SFWA labels this the 1970 award, presented 1971).
- Hugo Award (Best Novella), 1971: won; For the constituent story 'Ill Met in Lankhmar'.
- Hugo Award (Best Novella), 1971: nominated; For the constituent story 'The Snow Women', a different story in the same collection than the winner 'Ill Met in Lankhmar'; Leiber withdrew this nomination, having two stories on the same ballot.
Notes
- From the series record (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser): 7 volumes assembled by Leiber himself from ~35-40 short stories/novellas written 1939-1988 (originally scattered across pulp magazines over five decades) into a fixed internal reading order; collection-publication order does not match this internal order (Swords and Deviltry, internally 1st, was published in 1970, after Swords in the Mist/Against Wizardry/The Swords of Lankhmar, all 1968). Classified Core Canon per the same collection-as-Core exception established for The Witcher's foundational short-story collections: for this universe, the collections ARE the primary/definitive reading unit, not supplementary material.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: position 4 of 7: previous The Swords of Lankhmar (1968) · next Swords Against Death (1970)
- Internal chronology, within Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: position 1 of 7: next Swords Against Death (1970)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fafhrd_and_the_Gray_Mouser
- https://www.thehugoawards.org
- https://nebulas.sfwa.org
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