Two Sought Adventure

Two Sought Adventure

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name = Two Sought Adventure
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Fritz Leiber
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cover_artist = Lionel Dillon
country = United States
language = English
series = Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
genre = Fantasy short stories
publisher = Gnome Press
release_date = 1957
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 186 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 1647623
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"Two Sought Adventure" is a 1957 collection of fantasy short stories by Fritz Leiber. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains all of Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories that had been written at the time, with the exception of "Adept's Gambit". The collection was expanded and published by Ace Books in 1970 under the title "Swords Against Death". The stories originally appeared in the magazines "Unknown", "Other Worlds" and "Suspense Magazine".

Contents

* "The Jewels in the Forest"
* "Thieves’ House"
* "The Bleak Shore"
* "The Howling Tower"
* "The Sunken Land"
* "The Seven Black Priests"
* "Claws from the Night"

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=306 | date=1998
*cite web
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title = Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
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accessdate = 2008-03-04


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