Magick of Camelot

by Arthur H. Landis

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879976233
• ISBN13: 9780879976231
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The magick and swords of Camelot versus an invasion from outer space...

Once upon a time Arthur H. Landis wrote a thrilling trilogy which seamlessly melded the genres of science-fiction and fantasy and high adventure. I read all three books when I was in high school in the early '80s, and I've gone back to them time and again ever since. If you haven't yet had a chance to check out Landis's work (he only wrote four fiction novels), dare I say that you should jump on this? This story takes place somewhere in the far, far future... Fregis is a planet which has long puzzled the observers of the Terran Galactic Foundation. It resides in the Fomalhaut binary system, and boasts two moons. But that's not the weird stuff. For one thing, on Fregis, the laws of chivalry rule the day, and knighthood is alive and flourishing. Then, the biggest conundrum of all, which makes this world so unique: magic works! All the more reason to enter this planet in the Galactic listings under the name of Camelot. The first two entries of Arthur H. Landis's trilogy, A World Called Camelot and Camelot in Orbit, focused muchly on a malignant terror threatening all of Fregis. Kyrie Fern, expert on medieval culture and a Galactic Adjuster, is assigned by the Terran Foundation to counter this sorcerous blight, known as the Kaleen or the Dark One. Kyrie passes himself off as a Fregisian native, donning purply-blue contact lenses and, thanks to Terran science, growing body fur. Forever more, in Fregisian lore, Kyrie will be referred to as Sir Harl Lenti, or even more famously as the Collin, the reincarnation of a fabled hero in Marack, the mightiest kingdom on Fregis. After many perilous exploits, and two bloody wars and a climactic showdown with the Kaleen, the Collin thought that he can finally take a break, marry his gorgeous warrior princess Murie, and live happily ever after. But, no. There's a gateway, a warp hole in space thru which the Dark One had come from another universe. And it's still open...and something else has come thru. Some months later, Kyrie and a contingent of his Fregisian friends and allies become witnesses to an alien entity evaporating with ridiculous ease the mighty Terran starship, the Deneb, supposedly "invincible in war and indestructible to all known phenomena." This daunting act of war shakes up even Kyrie's mysterious, near-omnipotent friend, Hooli the Pug-Boo. Suddenly aware of an imminent invasion, the kingdom of Marack looks to the Collin, who had always come up with some formula of derring-do, some audacious scheme, to win the day. Imagine the shock and disbelief of the Marackian court when, instead, Kyrie advocates meek surrender, stating that caution is called for and that time is needed to seek out and exploit the enemy's weaknesses. Soon enough, the extraterrestrials land on Fregis and promptly begin to demonstrate their martial superiority. With insurmountable firepower which could humble the fiercest Fregisian warrior, it's not too long before they've completely taken over. Kyrie learns that these inva