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I think Leiber does it better in the Fafhrd and the Mouser books.
And Pratchett does it better as a minor thread in Diskworld.

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Allerdings beginnt die #Neurowissenschaft mit ihrem #4e-Konzept das Leibdenken wissenschaftlich auszubauen. Unsere #Leiber dominieren den Alltag, im Guten wie im Schlechten: Liebe und Hass, beides spielt sich im #Leib ab. Im Leib erleben wir uns handelnd, erleben Leiden und Glück und sind in Beziehung zum Anderen. Ethische und politische Grundeinstellungen sind leiblich verankert. Ebenso vernünftiges Denken, leider auch rechte Schäbigkeit und Hass.

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Dungeons & Dragons and the Trap of High Fantasy

In a post of mine from a couple of weeks back, I mentioned as an aside my preference for the gritty, noir quality of sword & sorcery fantasy over the flash and bombast of high fantasy. As I&#82…

The Subway Test

The TL;DR of this review is that it's TL;DR. Still, Leiber fanatics may find it of interest.

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https://jamesenge.com/2023/02/20/swords-against-redundancy/

Swords Against Redundancy: Leiber’s TWO SOUGHT ADVENTURE and SWORDS AGAINST DEATH | Ambrose & Elsewhere

Latest read, The Bleak Shore (1940), The Howling Tower (1941), The Sunken Land (1942), Seven Black Priests (1953); four tales of Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber, from Swords Against Death. Spellbound and sailing to dark shores where clawed demons hatch; lured to the tower of a haunted alchemist; discovering a land from beneath the waves; or running afoul of an earth god, they're all great.
Adventure, horror, wry humor
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