The Incomplete Enchanter (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—heroic fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1940s and medieval times
- Setting: Garaden, Ohio, and various mythological places
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Magic or magicians, Mythology or myths, Love or romance, Psychology or psychologists, 1940’s, Midwest, Ohio, Heroes or heroism, Middle Ages, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions
- Locales: Ohio, Mythical lands
The Plot
Harold Shea, a psychologist for the Garaden Institute in Ohio, hungers for travel and adventure. His coworkers tease him about the activities he takes up and subsequently drops, such as fencing and horseback riding. None of them satisfies his longing.
Sheas superior, Dr. Reed Chalmers, has hypothesized the existence of parallel worlds that can be reached by people who can attune themselves to receive a different series of impressions of reality. These parallel worlds have been made known to humankind through such classic works of literature as Edmund Spensers...
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