The Novarian Series (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: L. Sprague de Camp
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—heroic fantasy
- Time of Work: Similar to Earth’s distant past, prior to the invention of gunpowder
- Setting: A parallel world
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Inheritance or succession, Adventure, Heroes or heroism, Devils or demons, Clocks or watches, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions
- Locales: Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
The Novarian series is made up of a trilogy, The Reluctant King, comprising The Goblin Tower, The Clocks of Iraz, and The Unbeheaded King, and two other novels, The Fallible Fiend and The Honorable Barbarian, which share a common background with the trilogy but otherwise are independent of it and of each other. All five books are set in and around a confederation of city-states known as Novaria, on the Prime Plane, one of several parallel worlds (of which Earth is considered an unpleasant, mechanized afterworld). On the Prime...
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