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The Wizard of Zao

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1978
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I - The Wizard and the Wild Girl
1 - In Which a Number of Pazools Change Hands, and a Wizard Gets a Chela, and a Slave Girl is Purchased by a Most Unusual Master.
2 - Concerning a Rather Unorthodox Mode of Leaving a City in Haste, and How Ooo Learned Her New Master's Name and Began to Entertain Suspicions About His Motive.
3 - Concerning a Loquacious Simurgh, Several Music-Locing Troglodytes, and a Rather Persistent Dragon.
II - The Simurgh and the Shebites
4 - Discusses the Consequences of Rainmaking, the Persistence of Dragons, and Some Unexpected Aspect of Theology.
5 - In Which the Wilg Girl Proves Sharp-Witted, the Simurgh is Demonstrated to be Resourceful, and the Hero of Our Story is Discovered to be Quite Drunk.
6 - How a Bit of Minor Thaumaturgy Enables Our Friends to Leave the Forbidden City, and a Rather Dim-Witted Desert Djinn Helps Them to Elude Pursuit.
III - Gamar and the Goblins
7 - Concerning a River named Zong, a Jungle named Glash, a Village named Yan, and a Captive Warrior known as Gomar.
8 - Discusses the History of the Sword Adamantia, Describes the Journey South into Yab, and Contains Some Very Interesting Philosophical  Meditations.
9 - How Our Friends were Taken Captive by Gluth the Unspeakable, and How the Wizard Volunteered to Assist in the Conquest of Yab.
IV - Vroop and Victory
10 - In Which we Enjoy the Rare Opportunity of Observing a Duel between Magicians, of the Outcome Thereof, and in Which Gamar Begins to Develop Suspicions.
11 - Concerns Several Various Escapes and Captures, and in Which the Wizard Plots the Destruction of Shang, and Enters the City Presumably for That Purpose.
12 - In Which Wars - and Thrones - are Lost and Won, Hidden Identities are At Last Revealed, and Gamar, or Amar, Guesses the Wizard's Own Secret but Says Nothing.
The Afterword - In Which, After the Usual Coronations and Weddings and Banquets and Victory Speeches, and All That Sort of Thing, Our Friends Part - Each to His or Her Own Particular Destiny, and the Wizard Goes Home to Mount Wu, To Which the Author Has Thoughtfully Appended a Note.
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 Chronicles of Kylix*
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Chronicles of Kylix*     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of fantasy novels by Lin Carter.

1) The Quest of Kadji
2) The Wizard of Zao
3) Kellory the Warlock
Copyright ©, 1978, by Lin Carter
For Amy . . .

"All people are alone in some ways; some people are alone in all ways."
- Now Voyager
They usually close the gates of Ning at sunset and thereafter permit no travelers to enter the Purple City.
May contain spoilers
For they knew that The God was in His Heaven, and all was right with His world.
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Last Updated: 02-Oct-2024

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 01-Jan-1978
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1978
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.75
Pages*:
176
Catalog ID:
UE1383
Pub Series #:
293
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1921
Publisher:
ISBN:
Unknown
Country:
United States
Language:
English
LIN CARTER


"A few years ago it occurred to me that it might be fun to design an entire eolar system full of planets, and set a novel on each planet - and not science fiction novels either, as you might logically expect - but heroic fantasy.  Not only would this be fun to do, but, since nobody else has ever done it before, it could be an original and interesting experiment."
- Lin Carter

THE WIZARD OF ZAO is just such a novel.  Taking place on a planet revolving around the star Kylix in the Constellation of the Unicorn, it is Lin Carter at his most imaginative.  For the story of the wondering green wizard, the most powerful wonder-worker of that amazing sphere , of his newly purchased slave girl who knew nothing of civilized ways, and of the mystical beasts and curious humans they encountered is a constant source of delight.  For the wizard did have a purpose to his travels - and thereby hangs the tale!

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 Lin Carter
Birth: 09 Jun 1930 St. Petersburg, Florida, US
Death: 07 Feb 1988 Montclair, New Jersey, US

Notes:
Lin Carter (June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was born and raised in St Petersburg, Florida.  He later returned there after serving in the US Army  in the Korean Conflict where he received a Purple Heart.  He moved to New  York City and attended Columbia University in 1953 and 1954.  He worked as  a copywriter for law firms, ad agencies, and book publishers.  In 1969 he  became a full-time writer, editor and anthologist of fantasy & science  fiction until his death in February 7, 1988.

Fantasy was Carter's great favorite genre and the most of his writings were about "Swords and Sorcery".  He began writing stories while in high school with L Frank Baum, Edgar Rice Burroughs and J.R.R. Tolkien being his major influences.

Lin became an editor at Ballantine Books where he reprinted many of his earlier works.  Dell and DAW also published a lot of Lin Carter's stories.

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