banner
#TheExoticEnchanter The Exotic Enchanter
The Exotic Enchanter is an anthology of four fantasy short stories edited by science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff. "The Exotic Enchanter" is the second volume in the continuation of the classic Harold Shea Read More..
Ratings
Ratings 0
Likes
Likes 0
Reviews
Reviews 0
HASH INFO
Review# tag TheExoticEnchanter
Review# tag
Hash title The Exotic Enchanter
Hash title
Description The Exotic Enchanter is an anthology of four fantasy short stories edited by science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff. "The Exotic Enchanter" is the second volume in the continuation of the classic Harold Shea series by de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books in 1995. All the pieces are original to the anthology.De Camp and Pratt's original Harold Shea stories are parallel world tales in which universes where magic works coexist with our own, and in which those based on the mythologies, legends, and literary fantasies of our world and can be reached by aligning one's mind to them by a system of symbolic logic. In these stories psychologist Harold Shea and his colleagues Reed Chalmers, Walter Bayard, and Vaclav Polacek (Votsy), travel to a number of such worlds. In the course of their travels other characters are added to the main cast, including Belphebe and Florimel, who become the wives of Shea and Chalmers, and Pete Brodsky, a policeman who is accidentally swept up into the chaos. The Exotic Enchanter continues the new format of the series introduced in de Camp and Stasheff's previous volume, The Enchanter Reborn (1992), in which it was opened up into a shared world to which other authors were invited to contribute. In addition to stories by de Camp and Stasheff, who collectively oversaw the project, this volume includes contributions by Roland J. Green and Frieda A. Murray (in collaboration) and Tom Wham. Green and Murray may have worked from an outline provided by the editors as in the previous volume, though this is not stated. Wham's contribution is a distillation into concrete story form of his earlier authorized Harold Shea gamebook, Prospero's Isle, originally published by Tor Books in October 1987.The action in the first two stories concludes the quest by Shea and Chalmers to rescue Florimel that began in the previous volume, where she was kidnapped by the malevolent enchanter Malambroso. Their mission takes them into the worlds of the old Russian Tale of Igor's Campaign in "Enchanter Kiev," and that of Bhavabhuti's Baital Pachisi (or "Vikram and the Vampire"), a proto-Arabian Nights collection of Indian tales, in "Sir Harold and the Hindu King." After Florimel is finally recovered Shea and Belphebe must undertake a similar mission to Edgar Rice Burroughs's fictional version of Mars in "Sir Harold of Zodanga," this time to recover their daughter Voglinda, likewise seized by the unrepentant Malambroso. "Harold Shakespeare," the final tale, sends Shea and Belephebe on an unrelated adventure precipitated by the foolishness of Shea's colleague Polacek, into William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Description
Created By Admin
DETAILS
Name The Exotic Enchanter
Name
Authors L. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff
Authors
Translator
Translator
Genre Fantasy short stories
Genre
Series Harold Shea
Series
Number in series
Number in series
Language English
Language
Country United States
Country
PUBLISH
Story timeline
Story timeline
Pages 288 pp
Pages
Media_type Print (Paperback)
Media_type
Isbn 0-671-87666-X
Isbn
Oclc 32505645
Oclc
Publisher Baen Books
Publisher
RELEASE
Pub_date 1995
Pub_date
Release_date 1995
Release_date
Writing
Story
Style of narration
Language & literature
Castings & characters
Overall rating
No reviews available for #TheExoticEnchanter, Do you know The Exotic Enchanter?, Please add your review and spread the good things.
No images available.
MORE INFO
Ratings
No ratings yet.
Feature Ratings
No Feature ratings yet.
Popularity
Reaches
No data available now.
Ranks
This #hashtag is not ranked yet.
×