Ill Met in Lankhmar

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"Ill Met in Lankhmar" is a classic sword-and-sorcery fantasy novella by Fritz Leiber that chronicles the first meeting and misadventures of his iconic heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in the decadent city of Lankhmar.

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instanceOf fantasy novella
sword and sorcery fiction
author Fritz Leiber
authorNationality American
awarded Hugo Award for Best Novella
Nebula Award for Best Novella
chronologicalOrderInSeries origin story
countryOfOrigin United States
depictsOrganization Thieves' Guild of Lankhmar
featuresCharacter Fafhrd
Ivrian
Vlanna
the Gray Mouser
fictionalUniverse Nehwon
firstPublicationYear 1970
firstPublishedIn The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
genre fantasy
sword and sorcery
hasCopyrightStatus copyrighted work
hasForm novella
hasMedium print
hasProtagonist Fafhrd
the Gray Mouser
hasTargetAudience adult readers
hasTone darkly comic
tragic
HugoAwardYear 1971
influenced later sword and sorcery fiction
language English
literaryPeriod 20th-century fantasy
narrativeFocus first meeting of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
NebulaAwardYear 1970
notableFor award-winning sword and sorcery storytelling
defining the partnership of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
partOf Swords and Deviltry
publisherOfFirstBookEdition Ace Books
series Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
setting Lankhmar
theme friendship
thievery
tragedy
urban decadence

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