The Knight and Knave of Swords by Fritz Leiber
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The seventh (and last) book in the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series. It was published nearly twenty years after the sixth book, but some of the stories were written in the late seventies. I hadn't read it previously, and I almost wish I hadn't. The series always read as parody of swords and sorcery, but, with the exception of "The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars," the stories in this book seem to have lost that thread, and the last story in particular seemed like an entirely unnecessary late career offering that lacked almost all of the verve and joy of the earlier books (in addition to being really horny in an uncomfortable way). The first two thirds were mostly fine though, I'd give this two and a half stars if I could.