| "The Green Magician" | |||
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| Short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt | |||
 Cover of The Dragon, June 1978, illustrating "The Green Magician" | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Genre(s) | Fantasy | ||
| Publication | |||
| Published in | Beyond Fiction | ||
| Publisher | Galaxy Publishing Corporation | ||
| Media type | Print (Magazine) | ||
| Publication date | November, 1954 | ||
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| Series | Harold Shea | ||
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The Green Magician is a fantasy novella by American writers L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. The fifth story in their Harold Shea series, it was first published in the November 1954 issue of the fantasy pulp magazine Beyond Fiction. It first appeared in book form, together with "The Wall of Serpents", in the collection Wall of Serpents, issued in hardcover by Avalon Books in 1960;[1][2] the book has been reissued by a number of other publishers since.[3][4] It has also been reprinted in various magazines, anthologies and collections, including The Dragon (June–July 1978),[1][2] The Complete Compleat Enchanter (1989), Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988), and The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (2007).[2] It has been translated into Italian[3][4] and German.[3]
The 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 The Green Magician, Shea visits his sixth such world, that of Irish myth.
- ^ a b Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. p. 172.
- ^ a b c The Green Magician title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ a b c Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 103–104.
- ^ a b Wall of Serpents title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database