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Editor: L. Sprague De Camp Co-editors: Christopher Stasheff Title: The Exotic Enchanter Publisher:   Baen Books Country: USA Date: Jun 1995 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Fantasy ISBN-10: 067187666X Cat#: 87666-X Rating: Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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original anthology edited by l. sprague de camp and christopher stasheff, including one story each by the editors.

cover art by ruth sanderson (credited and signed)
cover price $5.99

contents:
"enchanter kiev" (novella) roland j. green and frieda a. murray
"sir harold and the hindu king" (nlla) christopher stasheff
"sir harold of zodanga"' (nlla) l. sprague de camp
" harold shakespeare" (nlla) tom wham

Comments and Reviews

ppint. 21st Oct 2018		Review again, not "the fifth book in "the incomplete enchanter" trilogy"; the four novellas in this original anthology are nevertheless firmly based upon the ideas that de camp and fletcher pratt turned into five delightful fantasy adventures written with the rigour of the science fiction writer's understanding that magic must follow its own, logical rules - even when neither the enquiring scientist nor the theorising logician truly understand quite what they're getting themselves into. . . de camp and fletcher pratt stopped producing these stories when the magazine unknown, the original market established for them by john w. campbell, folded; they started again when h. l. gold started beyond in the fifties, but when that in turn folded, the markets for adult fantasy novellas shrank back down to f&sf, and those paying half the going rate for sf and less, seldom on time - and too often, only "upon lawsuit", or threat thereof. christopher stasheff's career as, inter alia, an exponent of a logically-based fantasy set in a science fictional universe leavened with not a little humour, is based firmly upon the seventies' re-invention and the creation of fantasy as a publishing category in its own right by the del reys at random house's ballantine books, and james baen's revitalising of ace books for grosset & dunlap in the late seventies; both of his major series, "the dragon and the george" & ff., q.v. and "the warlock in spite of himself" and its sequels, q.v., helped make him very well-suited indeed to persuade de camp that his and his old colleague's creations had legs on them yet; and newer authors, that the opportunity to create unknown-style logical fantasies for sir harold in the worlds of "pasts that never were" was one that should not be allowed to escape. .. the four novellas in this original anthology are a little uneven, maybe; but all four're good fun reading, and mostly "simpatico" in theme, and in characterisations. 1 person found this review helpful.   ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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