Books like The knight and knave of swords by Fritz Leiber
While Lord of the Rings took the world by storm, Leiber’s fantastic but thoroughly flawed anti-heroes, Fafhrd and Grey Mouser, adventured and stumbled deep within the caves of Inner Earth as well, albeit a different one. They wondered and wandered to the edges of the Outer Sea, across the Land of Nehwon and throughout every nook and cranny of gothic Lankhmar, Nehwon’s grandest and most mystically corrupt city. Lankhmar is Leiber’s fully realized, vivid, incarnation of urban decay and civilization’s corroding effect on the human psyche. Fafhrd and Mouse are not innocents; their world is no land of honor and righteousness. It is a world of human complexities and violent action, of discovery and mystery, of swords and sorcery.
First publish date: 1988
Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy
Authors: Fritz Leiber
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 (0 community ratings)
How are these books recommended?
The books recommended for The knight and knave of swords by Fritz Leiber are shaped by reader interaction. Votes on how closely books relate, user ratings, and community comments all help refine these recommendations and highlight books readers genuinely find similar in theme, ideas, and overall reading experience.
Have you read any of these books?
Your votes, ratings, and comments help improve recommendations and make it easier
for other readers to discover books they’ll enjoy.
Books similar to The knight and knave of swords (24 similar books)
A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A continuation of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, The Great Hunt introduces the Horn of Valere and the quest to find it.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In Part III of Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower saga, Roland, Eddie, and Susannah Dean advance toward the Dark Tower, recruiting two new ka-tet members while confronting a deranged sentient train in Lud.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Neil Gaiman’s American Waters combines Americana, fantasy, and ancient and modern mythologies into a story of a mysterious traveler who awakens city‑wide enigmas and the timeless clash of gods.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
The Dragon Reborn, Rand al'Thor, embarks on a perilous journey to free the Great Lord of the Dark, battling betrayal, civil war, and the male wielders of the One Power in the sprawling epic fantasy world of The Wheel of Time.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
The story of two boys and their dark journey through a haunted carnival
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In the eighth installment of Robert Jordan’s epic series, the Seanchan wage a renewed invasion with flying reptiles and enslaved mages, while Rand al'Thor grapples with the horror of vanishing companions and the looming weight of destiny.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Three Bone cousins—Fone, Phoney, and Smiley—are cast out of Boneville, wander a strange desert and forest valley, and eventually find refuge on Gran'Ma Ben’s farm, where hidden dangers await.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A collection of three pre‑Noonday Ball prequel novellas, offering a youthful hedge knight and his squire’s adventures in a Westeros where the Targaryens still rule and dragons linger in memory.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A sweeping adventure through Rome, mythic caves, and celestial realms where humans, chimeras, and seraphim clash, love, and die, exploring the blurred lines between good and evil.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In *The Big Time*, soldiers are recruited at death to wage an endless battle across all of history, striving to alter the past and secure victory for the future.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
The Dragon Reborn confronts the White Dragon.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Nevyn, a wandering sorcerer who abandoned a maiden’s hand for a treacherous covenant, now seeks to atone for the grave sins of his past in a world beyond physical reality.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Fathrd the giant barbarian and the Gray Mouser, a master thief and wizard, team up to navigate the perilous alleys, catacombs, and cities of Nehwon, especially the fog‑shrouded streets of Lankhmar.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
A centuries‑old wizard seeks redemption amid political intrigue and war in the epic fantasy world of Deverry.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In Katharine Kerr’s revised Darkspell, Lord Rhodry, exiled from the dragon court of Aberwyn, seeks his true parentage while his lover Jill awakens powerful magic; both, guided by the ancient sorcerer Nevyn, race to recover the Great Stone, the heart of Deverry’s kingship, as dark forces threaten to destroy them.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
In *Dragonfly Falling*, Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the Wasp Empire, where looming sieges threaten the city of Tark and the revered Collegium. As empire forces advance, a hidden threat and a darker ambition for the young emperor threaten to plunge the world into a thousand‑year reign of blood.
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Besteht aus den Bänden:
- [Das Buch der verschollenen Geschichten, Teil 1](/works/OL15331146W)
- [Das Buch der verschollenen Geschichten, Teil 2](/works/OL15331147W)
Similar?
✓ Yes
0
✗ No
0
Some Other Similar Books
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry PratchettThe Dark Worlds of Fritz Leiber by Fritz Leiber
Have a similar book in mind? Let others know!
Please login to submit books!