Swords and Ice Magic

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

By: Fritz Leiber

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Neil Gaiman (introduction)

Neil Gaiman Presents: the sixth book in Fritz Leiber's classic sword-and-sorcery series.

In Swords and Ice Magic, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have traveled the width and breadth of the land of Nehwon in search of adventure and fortune. Now lost at sea, their ship drawn out on the Great Equatorial Current, their journey brings them to Rime Isle, a tragic island populated by vagabonds and wanderers. The island is also home to a race of gods, schemers, and manipulators that plague the humans for their amusement. Will Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser be able to escape the island, or be trapped forever as pawns of the gods?

The late Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser launched the sword-and-sorcery genre, and were the inspiration for the fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons.

BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction by Neil Gaiman.

Epic edge: download more tales of Lankhmar.©2008 The Estate of Fritz Leiber (P)2008 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser up against Death - you know who to put your money on. And it's not Death." (Neil Gaiman)
"Fritz Leiber's tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are virtually a genre unto themselves. Urbane, idiosyncratic, comic, erotic, and human, spiked with believable action and the eerie creations of a master fantasist!" (William Gibson)

Don’t buy

The writing is amazing. I own all these books on the Kindle and that’s how you should read them. The narrator doesn’t care, or worse, isn’t good. Characters are given voices that are immediately dropped, and his quiet, somber, (and sometimes too-cool-for-school) attitude doesn’t accentuate the exciting nature that sword and sorcery should give off. If you want to read these books, audible isn’t the way to do it.

A Magical Escape from Reality

Great narrator, he voices each character differently. This adds another level to the stories. The stories contain Fhafrd & the Grey Mouser's most interesting female companions, so far.

No intro?

I missed the introduction to the book from Niel Gaiman made conspicuous by it's absence.

not the best in the series

I've loved this series, but this particular book took forever to finish because the majority of it was painfully hard to get into. finally the last few chapters held my interest.

Fantasy story telling at its best!

Fritz Leiber’s classic sword and magic series set the stage for many other authors in the genre and remains the standard against which all others should be measured.

Where is the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser animated series???