The Flying Sorcerers

The Flying Sorcerers
Cover of first edition (paperback)
AuthorLarry Niven &
David Gerrold
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherBallantine Books
Publication date
1971
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages316 pp
ISBN0-345-02331-5

The Flying Sorcerers is a humorous 1971 science fiction novel by American writers David Gerrold and Larry Niven. It was originally serialized in 1970 as The Misspelled Magishun in If magazine.

The book is about the efforts of a stranded astronaut to escape from a primitive world, showing how sufficiently advanced technology could be perceived as magic by its natives.