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Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Seven is a lucky number for fans of adventure stories. The seven Harry Potter novels have sold more than 400 million copies and built a $24 billion brand. The seven Narnia novels by C.S. Lewis, have sold some 100 million copies, and are more popular now than at any time in their author’s life. But many connoisseurs of fantasy literature retain a special…

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