The Swords of Lankhmar
core novel 1968 Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Record
| First published | 1968 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.08 (3,674 ratings, collected 2026-08-06) |
| Page count | 224 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781504068949 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
- Series: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser core; position 5 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Fritz Leiber
Awards (verified)
- Hugo Award (Best Short Fiction), 1962: nominated; For the constituent novella 'Scylla's Daughter', the basis of this later-expanded novel; lost to Brian Aldiss's Hothouse series.
Notes
- The only full-length novel in the sequence; the other 6 volumes are short-fiction collections.
- 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 3 of 7: previous Swords Against Wizardry (1968) · next Swords and Deviltry (1970)
- Internal chronology, within Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: position 5 of 7: previous Swords Against Wizardry (1968) · next Swords and Ice Magic (1977)
Sources
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