Collection 1 (Gonna Roll the Bones+Business of Killing+Taboo ...)

by Fritz Leiber

Overview

Budushchij Grandmaster fantastiki Fric Rojter Lejber-mladshij rodilsya v sem'e akterov — emigrantov iz Germanii, vyros v teatral'noj srede, poluchil obrazovanie po special'nostyam psiholog i fiziolog, primeril na sebya neskol'ko professij i na radost' lyubitelyam vysokoj prozy ostanovilsya na literature, s pervyh zhe publikacij sdelavshis' populyarnym pisatelem, a po itogam svoego tvorchestva — odnoj iz samyh yarkih zvezd "Zolotogo veka" fantastiki. Krome "Sagi o Fafhrde i Serom Myshelove", proslavivshej ego kak sozdatelya geroicheskogo fentezi, i drugih izvestnyh krupnyh proizvedenij, on sozdal nemalo stol' zhe yarkih povestej i rasskazov, gde ironiya podchas prichudlivo spletaetsya s horrorom, nauchnoe prekrasno uzhivaetsya s absurdnym, a izoshchrennyj psihologizm niskol'ko ne sglazhivaet ostrye syuzhetnye ugly. Literaturnoe nasledie Lejbera udostoeno shesti premij "Neb'yula", chetyrekh "H'yugo", trekh "Vsemirnyh premij fentezi" i mnogih drugih pochetnyh nagrad. Bol'shinstvo proizvedenij, voshedshih v etot sbornik, publikuetsya na russkom vpervye ili predstavleno v novom perevode.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785389188709
Publisher:	Azbooka
Publication date:	10/20/2020
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	800
File size:	3 MB
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) was an American author, actor, and chess expert. He wrote primarily in the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. He is best remembered for his fantasy series Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser which is credited with originating the Sword and Sorcery genre. In 1958 his book The Big Time won the Hugo Award for best novel, which he would go on to win again in 1964 withThe Wanderer. He was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2001.