
The Childhood and Youth of the Gray Mouser
short fiction 1978 Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Record
| First published | 1978 |
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| Original language | |
| Work type | short fiction |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441791699 |
Synopsis
"The Childhood and Youth of the Gray Mouser" is a short story about the Gray Mouser's early life, written by Harry Otto Fischer -- co-creator of the character with Fritz Leiber -- and published in The Dragon magazine in 1978. It is one of the rare pieces of the saga actually written by Fischer himself, who otherwise contributed little text to the series he helped originate.
Where it sits
- Universe: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Fritz Leiber
Notes
- Written solely by Harry Otto Fischer (not Leiber); a tangential, non-standard side piece not part of the 7 standard collections.
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 Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (standalone work): position 7 of 8: previous Swords and Ice Magic (1977) · next The Knight and Knave of Swords (1988)
Sources
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