Wizard World (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Roger Zelazny
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—magical world
- Time of Work: The near future
- Setting: Earth and an alternate, magical world
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Changelings or cuckoos, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Future, Other worlds, Earth, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions
- Locales: Earth, Earth, alternate versions of
The Plot
After Det Morson, Lord of Rondoval, and his wife Lydia are killed, Mor, an old sorcerer, finds their child, Pol. Fearing for the child’s life, Mor exchanges him for the child of Michael and Gloria Chain in the human world. Knowing that Det had courted the dark powers, Mor also breaks Det’s scepter into three pieces, hiding them at various sites in the magical world. Finally, he lays a sleep-spell on the castle and seals the cavern beneath, trapping a thief named Mouseglove who was there stealing figurines.
Each child is displaced from his natural world. Pol,...
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