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mgkurilla
Posted 2019-12-07 7:03 AM (#21525)
Subject: Fritz Leiber confusion



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On the Fritz Leiber page, there are 2 Lankhmar sections (Lankhmar & Lankhmar / Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser), where the first appears to be omnibus editions, while the 2nd is the individual volumes. The Lankhmar section lists the "first book" and the "second book" of Lankhmar, but within each page on the individual books, their descriptions are identical, while the description on the Amazon link describes Book 1 as comprising the first 4 volumes and Book 2 as comprising the last 3 volumes.
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Posted 2019-12-07 9:26 PM (#21526 - in reply to #21525)
Subject: RE: Fritz Leiber confusion



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mgkurilla - 2019-12-07 7:03 AM On the Fritz Leiber page, there are 2 Lankhmar sections (Lankhmar & Lankhmar / Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser), where the first appears to be omnibus editions, while the 2nd is the individual volumes. The Lankhmar section lists the "first book" and the "second book" of Lankhmar, but within each page on the individual books, their descriptions are identical, while the description on the Amazon link describes Book 1 as comprising the first 4 volumes and Book 2 as comprising the last 3 volumes.

The whole of Lankhmar is comprised of short stories and novellas that were combined into collections to form the book series. We have listed the extended series as Lankhmar / Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser - two names for the same series that are interchangeable.

The Lankhmar omnibus books contain all the same material as the series divided into 2 volumes as they were published by Gollancz as part of the Fantasy Masterworks series.

You can choose to tag them how ever you read them -- the 2 volume omnibus collection or the 7 volumes collection series -- but they are equivalent reading. You will find many instances where we have the individual books of a series AND the omnibus of those same books.

Does that make sense?

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