Madwand

Madwand

Dust-jacket illustration from the first edition
Author Roger Zelazny
Cover artist Rowena Morrill
Country United States
Language English
Genre Fantasy novel
Publisher Phantasia Press
Publication date
1981
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 254 pp
ISBN 0-932096-11-5
OCLC 8388617
813/.54 19
LC Class PS3576.E43 M3
Preceded by Changeling

Madwand is a 1981 fantasy novel by Roger Zelazny. It is a sequel to Changeling.

Plot summary

Pol Detson, son of Lord Det, has come home, now a powerful sorcerer of unsurpassed natural ability. But Pol is still an untrained talent, a "madwand." To take control of his powers, to rule in his father's place, he must survive arduous training and a fantastic initiation into the rites of society.

During this process, Pol discovers that he is being monitored by a powerful magician. He has recurrent dreams of opening a portal into another world where a dark bestial erotic magic reigns supreme. Eventually he is drawn to a castle occupied by two magicians who are working to make the dream real, and want him to take his father's place in the scheme, so they can all reinvent themselves as gods in the new world.

Pol's loyalty to the world that he lives in, which will be destroyed by the dark world, causes him to resist and, with the help of a dragon, he stops the portal being opened. One of his enemies is killed and the other flees by flying away. He leaves behind a garment containing a label that says "Made in Hong Kong".

The story implied that a sequel was necessary to complete the story, but no sequel was ever written.

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