Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser share with such other successful series characters as Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, and Star Trek's Mr. Spock the appeal of the exotic personality rendered familiar. Neither is particularly deep, but Leiber has gradually given each of them enough quirks and peculiarities to make them considerably more complex than the simplistic barbarian heroes who dominate most sword and sorcery fiction, Robert E. Howard's Conan, for example, or John Jakes's Brak the Barbarian. In the early stories the two characters were little more than likable rogues, good-natured carousers, and sturdy adventurers but, like many long-running series characters, Fafhrd and the Mouser have subtly evolved over the years, becoming more world weary and cynical, perhaps.....
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