Fritz Leiber was a fantasy writer, now famous for his Swords of Lankhmar series of novels, which were writen over a span of 50 years. The first of these appeared in the [Unknown magazine]? in 1940. They are concerned with an unlikely pair of heroes, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, who found in, and around, the fascinating city of Lankhmar?, a fertile hunting ground for the adventurers. Although in many ways the stories now appear somewhat clicheed, these stories were, in fact, the progenitors of many of the cliches of the [sword and sorcery]? genre.
It has been noted that Terry Pratchett's city of Ankh-Morpork bears more than a passing resemblance to Lankhmar?.
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