Fred Barber, a diplomat, is kidnapped from war-torn England by an elf and taken to the strange world of King Oberon and Queen Titania

The Land of Unreason

Literature & Fiction

L. Sprague De Camp

Fletcher Pratt

Contemporary

Bluejay Books Inc.

The alternate Earth of "The Blue Star" is no home to swashbucklers or soldiers. It's a carefully worked out society, approximating the 18th-century Austro-Hungarian Empire. In this world, gunpowder has not been discovered, but magic works. The Empire centered around the city of Netzigon is corrupt, collapsing, decadent, and basically tiresome. The novel follows the adventures of Rodvard Bergelin, who begins as an ineffecutal, milquetoast government clerk and becomes embroiled in a massive plot to pull the Empire down and rebuild a free society. Great Stuff! Originally published by Twaine in 1952. This is the first paperback appearance, one of the early entries in the "Adult Fantasy" series that Lin Carter constructed for Ballantine Books.

The Blue Stars

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Ballantine Books

On Midsummer's Eve, as everybody knows, you should leave a bowl of milk out for the fairies. Unfortunately—or fortunately—Fred Barber, an American diplomat convalescing in Yorkshire, didn't take the obligation with proper seriousness. He swapped the milk for a stiff dose of Scotch. So he had only himself to blame if the fairies got a bit muddled. Barber found himself in an Old English Fairyland. At the Court of King Oberon, to be precise. The natural—or supernatural—laws there were, to say the least of it, distinctly odd. Things kept changing. This made the mission with which he was entrusted, as the price of his return to the normal world, even harder than he expected. He had to penetrate the Kobold Hills, where it was said that swords were being made, and discover if an ancient enemy had returned. He was given a magic wand—but not told how to use it. Through the fields and forests he went, meeting dryads and sprites, ogres and two-headed eagles, on the way. Danger, seduction, and magic lay all around him. And, as the adventure continued, somehow it darkened and became more seriousness. At the end of Fred Barber's quest lay a shattering revelation.

Land of Unreason

The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea

Civil War

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

DOUBLEDAY

Second paperback edition (1973). First published in hardcover in 1962, this novel is an expansion of "A Voice Across the Years," a story first published in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1932. Two Earthmen [Merrick Wells and Alvin Schierstedt] meet Ashembe of Murashema, who has come from beyond the stars on an urgent mission.

Alien Planet (Science Fiction from the Great Years)

Science Fiction

Ace Books

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The Well of the Unicorn (Fantasy Masterworks No.23)

Gollancz

Fred Barber, a diplomat, is kidnapped from war-torn England by an elf and taken to the strange world of King Oberon and Queen Titania

Baen

Magic spells masquerading as a college professor's symbolic logic take Harald Shea to a variety of mythical places, including the world of Spenser's "Faerie Queen"

The Complete Compleat Enchanter

Le Sprague de Camp

Enchanter Compleated

SPHERE

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