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This is the twenty-fourth session in a new series of monthly lectures and discussions, featuring Dr. Gregory Sadler, and hosted by the Brookfield Public Library. The series focuses on philosophical themes in the works and world of selected classic and contemporary fantasy, science fiction, horror, and other speculative fiction genre authors.
We continue the series by focusing in this session on the classic fantasy, horror, and science fiction author, Fritz Leiber. We are looking specifically at his Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series of works, set (for the most part) in the world of Newhon, and often in the city of Lankhmar.
We explore Leiber's biography and works, his worldbuilding of Newhon, and several main philosophical themes. These include: swords and sorcery as a literary genre, the friendship of the two main characters, the ethics of roguery, how women fit into Leiber's stories, and the irreverent polytheism of Newhon's deities.
Here are books containing Leiber's stories that we reference during this session, and where you can get them:
Swords and Deviltry - [ Ссылка ]
Swords Against Death - [ Ссылка ]
Swords in the Mist - [ Ссылка ]
Swords Against Wizardry - [ Ссылка ]
The Swords of Lankhmar - [ Ссылка ]
Authors we have covered in the series so far are J.R..R. Tolkein, A.E. Van Vogt, C.S. Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Leguin, Michael Moorcock, Philip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, George R.R. Martin, Philip Jose Farmer, Madeline L'Engle, Douglas Adams, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Iain Banks, H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, C.L. Moore, Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, Arthur Clarke, Robert Howard, Gene Wolfe, C. J. Cherryh, Jack Vance, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll, Tanith Lee, Gordon Dickson, August Derleth, Karl Edward Wagner, Aldous Huxley, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, China Mieville, Walter Miller, Cordwainer Smith, Liu Cixin, R. Scott Bakker, Stanislaw Lem, Neal Stephenson's, Philip Pullman, Olaf Stapledon, Veronica Roth, J.G. Ballard, Dan Simmons, Andrzej Sapkowski, Kim Stanley Robinson, N. K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, and Steven Erickson
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