An Empire Unacquainted With Defeat
An Empire Unacquainted With Defeat
“It appeared in the special Fritz Leiber issue of Whispers in October 1979. But it was written in September1969, in Fritz's two-room apartment in Venice, California, during several weeks I spent there with him after the death of his wife, Jonquil. We wrote back to back, sometimes using one another's characters in walk-ons, he producing much of the very dark stuff that became part of Swords Against Death.The manuscript of this bears the title "Keeper of Shadows." I don't recall the reason for the... change. He thought he would never see the day, but, when Bragi Ragnarson reached Itaskia's South Fortress, he could not restrain a sigh of pleasure. His adventure in the south, that had included a forced march back through dark jungles and strange dangers, made him realize just how safe he felt in a city he knew. Once despised Itaskia seemed a suburb of Heaven.He wandered slowly through the slums of Wharf Street South, his immediate destination the Red Hart Inn at the intersection of Wharf and Love Lane.MoreLess
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