Schwerter gegen Zauberei

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Swords Against Wizardry is a fantasy short story collection by Fritz Leiber and Harry Fischer featuring their sword and sorcery heroes Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Fischer's contribution was limited to ten thousand words of "The Lords of Quarmall". The book is chronologically the fourth volume in the complete seven volume edition of the collected stories devoted to the characters. It was first published in paperback in 1968 by Ace Books, which reprinted the title numerous times up to October 1990; later paperback editions were issued by ibooks and Dark Horse. It has been published in the United Kingdom by Grafton. The first hardcover edition was issued by Gregg Press in December 1977. The book has been collected with others in the series into various omnibus editions: Swords' Masters, Lean Times in Lankhmar, The First Book of Lankhmar and Lankhmar.
The book collects four short stories, three of which were originally published in the magazines Fantastic for November 1965 and August 1968 and Fantastic Stories of Imagination for January and February 1964, and one of which first appeared in the book itself.