 Dust-jacket from the first edition | |
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Lionel Dillon |
| Language | English |
| Series | Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Gnome Press |
Publication date | 1957[1] |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 186 |
| OCLC | 1647623 |
Two Sought Adventure is a1957 collection offantasy short stories by American writerFritz Leiber. It was first published byGnome Press in 1957 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains all of Leiber'sFafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories that had been written at the time, with the exception of "Adept's Gambit". The collection was expanded (minus the Induction) and published byAce Books in 1970 under the titleSwords Against Death. (The Induction was reused in a companion volume,Swords and Deviltry.) The stories originally appeared in the magazinesUnknown,Other Worlds andSuspense Magazine.
The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories concern the lives of two larcenous but likable rogues as they adventure across the fantasy world of Nehwon. The stories inTwo Sought Adventure collect a miscellaneous series of adventures from their wanderings, including a quest for treasure in a dwelling with unique defenses ("The Jewels in the Forest"), a bout with the Thieves' Guild of Lankhmar ("Thieves' House"), an ensorcelled journey to a far-away land ("The Bleak Shore"), an encounter with a beast-haunted stranger ("The Howling Tower"), a dangerous visit to their world's equivalent of Atlantis ("The Sunken Land"), a conflict with a murderous priesthood ("The Seven Black Priests"), and a magical plague afflicting Lankhmar ("Claws from the Night").
Galaxy Science Fiction calledTwo Sought Adventure's stories "guaranteed nostalgia evokers ... improbably wonderful adventures".[2]