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10 best books like Swords Against Wizardry (Fritz Leiber): The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, Bridge of Birds, The Earthsea Trilogy, The Jewel in the Skull, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate, The Sword of the Lictor, The Weird of the White Wolf, Dying Inside, Rhialto the Marvellous, The World of Null-A

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
AuthorRobert E. Howard
ISBN0345483855
Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellanea drafts, notes, maps by author.
Cimmeria poem
1 The Phoenix on the Sword 1932
2 The Frost-Giant's Daughter 1976
3 The God in the Bowl 1952
4 The Tower of the Elephant 1933
5 The Scarlet Citadel 1933
6 Queen of the Black...
Bridge of Birds
AuthorBarry Hughart
ISBN0345321383
When the children of his village were struck with a mysterious illness, Number Ten Ox sought a wiseman to save them. He found master Li Kao, a scholar with a slight flaw in his character. Together, they set out to find the Great Root of Power, the only possible cure.

The quest led them to a host of...
The Earthsea Trilogy
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0140050930
As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode...
The Jewel in the Skull
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0583113680
Fantasy legend Michael Moorcock won hundreds of thousands of readers with his vast and imaginative multiverse, in which Law and Chaos wage war through endless alternative universes, struggling over the fundamental rules of existence.

Moorcock's heroes of the multiverse have been lauded...
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0586208771
Holy crap! I, Mark Lawrence, have read an entire book in 4 hours!

Admittedly I picked it up after discovering that it was only 24,000 words long, or 1/2oth of a George Martin epic.

EDIT: over the long grind of this summer holiday I've been writing a "short" story that I'm being paid to write...
The Sword of the Lictor
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0671631934
This, as well as the first two books and theoretically the last in the series, is rapidly becoming the most difficult work of SF I've ever read. Why? It's not particularly difficult to follow; the Hero's Quest is rather straightforward throughout. Nor is the main character Severian particularly uninteresting...
The Weird of the White Wolf
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441888054
"We must be bound to one another then. Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then - let it be thus so - and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Elric of Melnibone and Stormbringer, his sword. We are two of a kind - produced by an age which has deserted...
Dying Inside
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0743435087
David Selig was born with an awesome power -- the ability to look deep into the human heart, to probe the darkest truths hidden in the secret recesses of the soul. With reckless abandon, he used his talent in the pursuit of pleasure. Then, one day, his power began to die...

Universally acclaimed...
Rhialto the Marvellous
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN0671559915
Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by “ensqualming” or...
The World of Null-A
AuthorA.E. van Vogt
ISBN0765300974
The classic novel of non-Aristotelian logic and the coming race of supermen

Science Fiction Grandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the 1940s, the Golden Age of classic SF. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is his most famous and most influential. Published in 1949 it was the...
Cugel Saga
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN2290302147
Pauvre Cugel : alors qu'il pensait tenir sa revanche sur Iucounu, le magicien rieur, le voilà renvoyé de l'autre côté de l'océan des soupirs. Pour retourner en Almery et enfin se venger, Cugel se lance donc dans un nouveau périple foisonnant de dangers et de créatures farfelues... Une nouvelle...
Conan
AuthorRobert E. Howard
ISBN0441116302
Aaaaah...Conan!

I struggled with my star rating for Conan because, despite any mitigating factors, I really love the character of Conan, particularly in the hands of his progenitor, Robert E. Howard.

Howard had a fiercely creative mind and a burning work ethic that enabled him to...
The Vanishing Tower
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0441860397
Elric of Melniboné, proud prince of ruins, last lord of a dying race, wanders the lands of the Young Kingdoms in search of the evil sorcerer Theleb K'aarna. His object is revenge. But to achieve this, he must first brave such horrors as the Creatures of Chaos, the freezing wilderness of World's Edge,...
Conan: Sword of Skelos
AuthorAndrew J. Offutt
ISBN0765340216
With the beautiful and fierce Isparana at his side, Conan must cross a brutal and deadly desert in order to deliver their precious cargo-a magical amulet known as the Eye of Erlik. But rather than collecting untold riches for their rare treasure, they are betrayed by a ruthless tyrant and his evil mage.

Conan...
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