anthology of four fantasy short stories edited by science fiction and fantasy
authors. Sprague de Camp and Christopher Stasheff, the second volume in
their continuation of the classic Harold Shea series by de Camp and
Fletcher Pratt.
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, 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.
By de Camp and Stasheff, who collectively oversaw the project, this volume
includes contributions by Roland J. Green and Frieda A. Murray and
Tom Wham. They may have all worked from outlines provided by the editors
as in the previous volume, though this is not stated.
play hunting games
