{"id":459,"date":"2010-04-24T03:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/fafhd-and-the-gray-mouser-finally-getting-around-to-a-classic\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T03:18:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:18:20","slug":"fafhd-and-the-gray-mouser-finally-getting-around-to-a-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/fafhd-and-the-gray-mouser-finally-getting-around-to-a-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fafhd and the Gray Mouser: finally getting around to a classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=1595820795\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>On my last trip to the US, I decided to finally sit down and read a classic in the fantasy genre, Fritz Leiber&#8217;s Lahnkmar series with Fafhd and the Gray Mouser.  I picked up the first volume, a compilation of sorts I think, and gave it a read.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Overall it took a while for me to get into it.  I persevered and near the end it really started moving.  I&#8217;m looking forward to more adventures of this famous duo.  I&#8217;m kind of curious what other gaps I have in the &#8220;classics&#8221; of the fantasy and science fiction genres.  I&#8217;ve read a lot of the interesting sounding stuff from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>, but since nothing has fallen into the public domain since about 1923 or so there isn&#8217;t much that is &#8220;newish&#8221; &#8211; I&#8217;m thinking of stuff from the 50s and 60s.  Some of that is still being collected and published in new volumes for reasonable prices, so I guess it isn&#8217;t too bad, but it seems strange to me that things published before my father was born are not yet available for the greater social good.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>At any rate, I did enjoy this book, and will probably get started on the next one.  Too bad I don&#8217;t have any long 8 hour plane rides coming up where I can steal some time for reading&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my last trip to the US, I decided to finally sit down and read a classic in the fantasy genre, Fritz Leiber&#8217;s Lahnkmar series with Fafhd and the Gray Mouser. I picked up the first volume, a compilation of sorts I think, and gave it a read. Overall it took a while for me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}