title: Swords Against Wizardry
author:  Fritz Leiber 
description: "There were two writers of the earlier generation whose literary standards and skills, whose talent and sensibility they (new wave wirters) still admired. One was Phillip K. Dick. The other was Fritz Leiber, whose masterly prose and urbane wit continued to outshine our callow talents. We revered him. We still do." -Michael Moorcock<br /><br />Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre, actually coining the term
zlib_text: A Wizard In War
  The Third Chronicle of Magnus D'Armand, Rogue Wizard
  By Christophr Stasheff
  ISBN: 0-812-53649-5
  1
  Dicea didn't hear the knight approaching until it was too late-even though he was
  laughing and joking with his men-at arms-so she was tardy turning her face to
  the wall, and the knight espied her. "Hola! Come here, pretty lass!" he cried, but
  Dicea shrank away, eyes wide. "Fetch her, Barl," he ordered one of his men, and
  the soldier came, grinning and reaching out for Dicea, who cried out and tried to
  push herself back into the wall, forearms up to shield her torso, face down in her
  fists.
  Anger tore through her brother, Coll. He jumped between Dicea and the soldier
  and cracked a fist into his jaw. The man gave one surprised grunt-after all, serfs
  never fought back-and slumped, eyes rolling up.
  The knight turned scarlet on the instant and shouted, "Kill him!" He, too, knew
  that serfs couldn't be allowed to fight back.
  Four soldiers came at Coll. Panic seized him; he knew hi