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''The Incomplete Enchanter'' is a collection of two fantasy novellas by science fiction and fantasy authors L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, the first volume in their Harold Shea series. The pieces were originally published in the magazine ''Unknown'' in the issues for May and August 1940. The collection was first published in hardcover by Henry Holt and Company in 1941, and in paperback by Pyramid Books in 1960. It has been reprinted by a number of other publishers since its first appearance. A 1979 edition published by Sphere Books was issued under the variant title ''The Incompleat Enchanter''. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part of a general release of de Camp's works in electronic form.〔(Orion Publishing Group's L. Sprague de Camp webpage )〕〔(Amazon.com entry for e-book edition )〕 The collection has been combined with later books in the series in the omnibus editions ''The Compleat Enchanter'' (1975) (which presumably influenced the title of the Sphere edition just mentioned), ''The Complete Compleat Enchanter'' (1989), and ''The Mathematics of Magic: The Enchanter Stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt'' (2007). It has also been published in Dutch. The Harold Shea stories are parallel world tales in which magic exists in separate universes which coexist with our own, and which can be reached by aligning one's mind to them by a system of symbolic logic. The worlds frequently are based on the mythologies, legends, and literary fantasies of our world. In the stories collected as ''The Incomplete Enchanter'', the authors' protagonist Harold Shea visits two such worlds, that of Norse mythology and that of Edmund Spenser's ''The Faerie Queene''. Contents: *"The Roaring Trumpet" *"The Mathematics of Magic" ==Reception== Reviewing the 1950 edition, Boucher and McComas described the series as "a high point in the application of sternest intellectual logic to screwball fantasy."〔"Recommended Reading," ''F&SF'', December 1950, p.104〕 Damon Knight characterized the series as "relaced, ribald adventure . . . priceless," saying that "no fantasy reader should be without them."〔"The Dissecting Table", ''Worlds Beyond'', December 1950, p.114〕 P. Schuyler Miller declared that these "first and best of the Harold Shea stories," through the authors' "fiendishly clever application of symbolic logic", have "annexed the entire realm of "pure" fantasy to science fiction."〔"Book Reviews", ''Astounding Science Fiction'', February 1951, p.150〕 In 1977, Richard A. Lupoff described the series as "whole planes above the hackneyed gut-spillers and skull-smashers that pass for heroic fantasy."〔"Lupoff's Book Week", ''Algol'' 28, 1977, p.56.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Incomplete Enchanter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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