Swords Against Death
Dec. 29th, 2018 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quipxoticYesterday I started listening to the audio book of Swords Against Death: Lankhmar, Book 2 by Fritz Leiber. It's not my first time listening to or reading this book; I'm not sure exactly where I got my first copy of it, but I vividly remember reading it on a bus to an away football game during college. It was such a revelation to me at the time, and I'm constantly surprised it's not better known by modern fandom.
Let's be clear though, it's sexist as hell (Edit to add: oh and racist, I hadn't gotten to that part yet in the audio). But there's something about Leiber's writing style that is charmingly sarcastic and smart. The plots are constantly surprising and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser seem ideal for modern day shippers. And yet, there's only about 9 stories featuring them on AO3. Not that I have any room to complain about any of this, since the primary reason I started listening to these stories again was because I knew I wouldn't feel compelled to write anything for them. I've got so many waiting projects and I'm so far behind...
Anyway, no real point to any of this...just something that I was musing on this morning.
Let's be clear though, it's sexist as hell (Edit to add: oh and racist, I hadn't gotten to that part yet in the audio). But there's something about Leiber's writing style that is charmingly sarcastic and smart. The plots are constantly surprising and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser seem ideal for modern day shippers. And yet, there's only about 9 stories featuring them on AO3. Not that I have any room to complain about any of this, since the primary reason I started listening to these stories again was because I knew I wouldn't feel compelled to write anything for them. I've got so many waiting projects and I'm so far behind...
Anyway, no real point to any of this...just something that I was musing on this morning.
