 First Edition | |
| Author | Katherine Kurtz |
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| Cover artist | Darrell K. Sweet |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Legends of Camber of Culdi |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
Publication date | 1981 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 491 (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-345-33142-7 (first edition, paperback) |
| Preceded by | Saint Camber |
| Followed by | The Bishop's Heir (next published), The Harrowing of Gwynedd (literary chronology) |
Camber the Heretic is a fantasy novel by American-born author Katherine Kurtz. It was first published by Del Rey Books in 1981. It was the sixth novel of Kurtz' Deryni novels to be published, and the third book in her second Deryni trilogy, The Legends of Camber of Culdi. The Legends trilogy serves as prequels to The Chronicles of the Deryni series that Kurtz wrote from 1970 to 1973, and it details the events that occurred two centuries before the Chronicles trilogy. Kurtz' next Deryni series to be published was The Histories of King Kelson, but the internal literary chronology of the Legends trilogy is continued in The Heirs of Saint Camber trilogy.