Wizards (Asimov anthology)

Wizards

Cover of first edition
Editors	Isaac Asimov Martin H. Greenberg Charles G. Waugh
Cover artist	Kinuko Kraft
Language	English
Series	Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy
Genre	Fantasy, science fiction
Publisher	Signet/New American Library
Publication date	1983
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	304
ISBN	0-451-12542-8
Preceded by	none
Followed by	Witches

Wizards is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of wizards edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh. The first volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series, it was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in October 1983. It was later gathered together with Witches, the second book in the series, into the omnibus hardcover collection Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy: Witches & Wizards (1985).

Summary

The book collects ten novellas, novelettes and short stories by various fantasy and science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov.

Contents

• "Introduction" (Isaac Asimov)
• "Mazirian the Magician" (Jack Vance)
• "Please Stand By" (Ron Goulart)
• "What Good Is a Glass Dagger?" (Larry Niven)
• "The Eye of Tandyla" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The White Horse Child" (Greg Bear)
• "Semley's Necklace" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• "And the Monsters Walk" (John Jakes)
• "The Seeker in the Fortress" (Manly Wade Wellman)
• "The Wall Around the World" (Theodore R. Cogswell)
• "The People of the Black Circle" (Robert E. Howard)

Reception

Tom Easton, briefly surveying the anthology in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, notes of the selections in it that "some are classics," and singles out the Howard piece as "[o]ne of his best."

The anthology was also reviewed by Lahna F. Diskin in Fantasy Review, July 1984.