Fritz Leiber

i enjoyed the leiber slugs podcast, looking forward to listening to the other ones!

hey guys, no offense, but one tech note...when i had the volume up loud enough to hear all the talking (and occasional trailing off), some of those sound effect interludes were just piercing.

Yeah, I had a similar problem.

Spatulate

the novel-length lankhmar is my favourite -- eg the one where emperor glipkerio is

*SPOILERS ALERT*

a: freaked out by a single female pubic hair placed on his pillow!
b: commits suicide by jumping into a lead sarcophagus poised on a slipway down into the sea -- a sea so deep the coffin doesn't go all the way to the bottom but comes to rest at a midway bouyancy point, the lead pressed down on glipkerio so as to finelymould his features

That's 'Swords of Lankhmar' - absolute classic. Always imagined Glipkerio as John Hurt's Caligula. The whole Lankhmar series is great: grown-up, literate and very, very perverse.

But no, Silver Eggheads isn't very good at all, and folk upthread seem to have been remarkably unlucky in hitting his less worthwhile writing. Fritz was a troubled alcoholic who wrote to support himself, which doesn't make for quality control. But when he's really on, he's incomparable, the writer I go back to whenever I'm jaded - picking up 'The Green Millennium' prompted me to search out this thread. My other tip would be 'Our Lady of Darkness', my favorite horror novel, set in decadent 70's San Francisco.