The stories were written in a fairly random order, and by the time he wrote the back stories, Leiber already had quite a lot of material on them, which cramped them. At the same time, the other earlier stories in their continuity were also early in his writing career and rather sub-Howard. The style and content change a lot as Leiber changes and grows. So this 1st volume is also the weakest. I hope you do read some more. He's a very influential writer and changed a lot of the perceptions of what swords-and-sorcery was about. Your Amenkor novels have a similar feel to the later Fafhrd/Mouser stories (a style I love, btw! You, Violette Malan and Amanda Downum are, to my mind, the true heirs of Leiber).
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Date: 2015-03-11 03:12 pm (UTC)I hope you do read some more. He's a very influential writer and changed a lot of the perceptions of what swords-and-sorcery was about. Your Amenkor novels have a similar feel to the later Fafhrd/Mouser stories (a style I love, btw! You, Violette Malan and Amanda Downum are, to my mind, the true heirs of Leiber).